Miranda Loves Travelling - My Travel Diary - Page 376

 This is a monastery in Macedonia called St.Jovan Bigorski, which is famous for its intricate iconostasis. In this tour, we visited many churches and monasteries, but this is the only one that women had…

This dish is called Shopska Salad, which we ate many times in Macedonia. In Japan it is introduced as a Bulgarian dish. It is the same thing. A simple salad with pieces of…

 All over the new part of Skopje, Macedonia was under construction. They were building or renewing theatres, museums and so on, which is somewhat understandable, but the strange thing is that they were making…

 I found this chicken in a shop in Skopje, Macedonia. The owner of this shop is the master of filigree and now his sons and nephews are helping him to make their intricate works….

 The old part of Skopje, the capital city of Macedonia is very similar to the Turkish quarter of Sarajevo. It is like middle eastern bazaar, the town is divided according what the shop sells….

 I had thought bagpipes were from Scotland, but here in Kratovo in Macedonia, this old man played their local songs by bagpipe for us. Apparently he is the last bagpipe player in the village….

 This is a village called Kratovo in Macedonia. Here the guide and the interpreter were very friendly to me. When the guide found that I was a Japanese, he gave me an extra brochure…

I stayed in a hotel which was a monastery in Italy, but this time we stayed in a monastery itself, St.Joakim Osogovski in Macedonia.I was prepared myself for a very simple basic room…

 We visited a lot of churches and monasteries in this Ancient Macedonia tour we joined. This St.Joakim Osogovski  is the first monastery we visited and situated in a mountain in Macedonia near the border…