Together with Baikal and Tanganyika is one of Ohrid in Macedonia and Albania to the oldest and most fascinating lakes in the world. From the Ice Age left aside developed in him an animal world today 146 endemic species.
gently sways the green reeds in the wind back and forth Ducks float in the lake, and then disappear a ansatzlos below the surface. In the distance Balkan pop booms from the loudspeakers of a snack bar where many people are crowded. The right on the shore of Lake Ohrid, the monastery Sveti Naum attracts pilgrims from all over Macedonia. Some of them confuse the idea sunk in travelers from Austria with a local boatman and want to book a boat trip. The misunderstanding is quickly resolved and found the true sailor. With five more elderly and very festively dressed ladies on board, he chugs to the southwest beyond the lake. The slowly returning silence is good. After several exhausting hours, on the Albanian Streets of Elbasan on Librazhd and Thana-led does pass, slowing truly good.
Right from the pass at 960 meters a first glimpse opened in the Lake Ohrid, the water area of 350 square kilometers, that of the Neusiedler Lake exceeds only slightly. With a depth of up to 289 meters is the "i Liqeni Ohrit", as the lake is called on the Albanian side, but in the ranking of European inland waters is far ahead. In addition, the Ohrid is beside the Lake Baikal and Lake Tanganyika to the oldest in the world. The question his age estimates range between two and five million years. With much more precise information than the geologists to wait for the archaeologists. The peninsula, which houses the picturesque neighborhood, Lin Albanian village is inhabited at least since the Iron Age. One of the oldest-ten art-historical products include floor mosaics of early Christian basilica from the 6th Century.
, in contrast to the delightful little town of Pogradec Lin on the old structure. A stroll through the markets of the Albanian city, home to some 40,000 people out, remember that the Ohrid water permits in the otherwise arid region an intense fruit and vegetable production. Agriculture is in addition to fishing and tourism the main source of income of the population dar. Speaking of tourism, Enver Hoxha and cultivated from the strains of his work as a dictator on the shores of Lake Ohrid recover, in the city on the southern shore Tushemisht immediately before the border with Macedonia. A variety of unsightly concrete bunkers still remembered here in the paranoia-driven politicians.
About two-thirds of the Ohrid Lake are located on Macedonian territory, and Ohrid both economic and tourism acts as a center. Directly on the lakeshore, and the Samuil fortress towering over the city is one of the most beautiful in the Balkans and is waiting with many attractions including the picturesque Old Town district, some churches from the early Middle Ages, a Roman Theater and several mosques and museums.
The most interesting witness of the early Christian culture of the region make their way to the city of Ohrid appear opposite bank as worthwhile. Between Struga and Radozdha some tiny churches eagle nests clinging to the same steep cliff. Most impressive: Sveti Atanas at Stenje with frescoes from the late 14th Century and a simple iconostasis decorated with carvings and Sveti Archangel Mihail in Radozdha. This 700-year-old rock church is decorated with frescoes from different eras. The oldest murals - including a portrait of the Archangel - date from the 13th Century, while younger Layers of vibrantly colored frescoes from the 15th-acting and 16 Century come up.
culture makes you hungry and the shores of Ohrid lake is literally made for a picnic. Of which can be confused and not a small snake swimming not two feet past the pause like travelers. Whether it is an endemic reptile? The Ohrid fauna has today to 146 species that live exclusively in this lake. Cause of the concentration of animals occurring nowhere else is the fact that the lake was never glaciated and hence without prejudice by scraping the ice age. Ohrid is also called a "museum of living fossils" means.
seems somewhat curious to the fact that the water without any substantial flow-questioning the place. The lake is fed by springs, with the most important is at Sveti Naum. Here begins after sunset, the water level to be colored in varied shades of red. Out on the lake still is, a single after his fishing craft and seek networks - in the hope that it might dangle a copy of the famous Ohrid trout. The endemic species is indeed endangered, but is still around the lake valued as a delicacy in various restaurants and all kinds of protection offered in defiance.
A first softly, then louder getting steadily chugging breaks the flow of thought. The five pilgrims inside return at dawn from a small boat trip. Their faces reflected satisfaction. Then they get on the waiting bus. After his departure there is silence again. Absolute silence.
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