A Day on the Lake

This pic, is a tease shot, and a chance to say how good was the meal with the fish that's been caught from nearby. But the meal only came after the journey. So let us start, with the begining :) .

The Ohrid Lake

Few bits of general info:

^{* This is the OHRID Lake}

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This lake is so big, is spread in two countries: Macedonia and Albania . In Macedonia gets through Ohrid, which is one of the most beautiful cities (and turisty) of the country, and then Struga; Struga it's more like a town, but has still many of the rural and spiritual prints of Macedonia . And then of course, the Ohrid Lake goes (or i should say starts) in Albania, somewhere nearby the border of the two countries .

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^{* And here is in Albania, where the Springs are emerging and that are fuelling the lake.}

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In this post, we have rented a car and drove all the way up to the Albanian border, and got a passport stamp just to see this little beauty.

Here there are cold springs that are emerging, and which eventually flow into the Ohrid Lake, which is a reason why it grew to such a vast area, for a lake.

The water is cold and clean; it's so clean you can see crystal clear the bottom, even though is like 5m deep; and more than that, the locals (the driver) encouraged me to drink directly from where i was in the boat. Yeap, directly from the source. And it felt so fresh, that i kept drinking while we were sailing with the boat. Hands got frozen though as i was doing it too often :)) .

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This is the boat (the one on the left) we used to trip the lake, and see a peaceful corner of nature .

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