We followed the lake West to the dam wall. The
overflow was a spectacular funnel sitting in the lake.
We
started making altitude, the snow was settling then it had a
reasonable cover. Trucks were having trouble going up, others with
chains were moving up slowly. There were tracks of vehicles that had
skidded out of lanes. We were in 4x4 and had no problems just worried
about the other drivers. I crossed the pass at 1000m
and headed down.
We
stopped in Prilep and visited a supermarket to buy milk butter and a
few other items. Johns napped this mobile wood saw…
It
is sad that Albania has so much rubbish lying around.
Further
on we noticed a line of trucks and a police car. We were waved on,
another snowy pass at 1200m alt. The snow plough was coming up as we
went down.
The road side in places were the local rubbish dump
At an apple growing town we stopped at a road side stall,
The lady had a little English as her daughter lives in Melbourne and
she had spent 6 months over there…
At the
touristic town of Ohrid on lake Ohrid (60km x 30km) we found our way up
narrow streets to park outside the old wall. We walked down to the
shore and found lunch on the waterfront. Then back up to visit St Sophia church for which we needed to pay and was a bit disappointing.
Next back up the fort we paid the entry fee of 400 leke each (A$6)
and had a wonder around quite impressive walls.
The lake’s
shoreline was quite built out, but we managed to find a nice little
spot near a locked camp ground.
172km
172km