Our club organized a trip to the Ohrid lake in Macedonia. The excursion started on august 17th (Saturday) and last for 9 days (till august 25th). We dove on dive sites near the town of Ohrid, a coastal region that is app. 30 km long.

The Ohrid lake is 700 m above sea level facing the massive mounting Galicica witch is making a natural barrier between the Prespan and Ohrid lake. Hearsay is that these two lakes are connected under the big mountain Galicica.
In the Ohrid lake over 70 species of fishes found there home, among them the famous Ohrid trout and Ohrid eel. The greatest depth of the lake is 285m and the visibility reaches 40 m. The river Beli Drim empties into the lake, while the river Crni Drim connects the Ohrid lake with the Black Sea.
Ohrid is a very old city and a well-known tourist destination.

Around Ohrid was build over 365 Orthodox churches. Today only a small percent of them are still existing.

Our divers had the opportunity to visit the fortress of Samuilo that has a wonderful view on the lake. This year the restoration of the Ohrid amphitheater was finished.
Now there are concerts organized in this beautiful acoustical arena.
(Amphitheater at night).

During our visit the famous Macedonian music star Vlatko Stefanovski and his band "Leb i Sol" had a concert. In the Ohrid lake has been discovered an ancient town (in a depth of app. 8m). This city is now well known as "Micun grad" after the diver who discovered the town. We regret that we were not aloud to dive on this site because the archeological examinations were not finished yet. During our stay in Ohrid we had the opportunity to meet Mr. Milutin Sekuloski who discovered the under water city and make some dives with him.

Milutin arranged a unforgettable dive trip to a local dive.

The accommodation was in a so-called Universe hotel near the beach, app. 6-kilometer from the center of the town. A nice park and threes around the hotel made our stay more pleasant. The manager of the hotel Mr. Pero made all our wishes come trough so we will use this opportunity to thank Mr. Pero and his hotel staff.

Mr. Cele took care of the well being of our divers and fed us like nobody before. After this excursion every diver gained a few pounds of weight. Being able to chose between various Macedonian specialties it was weary hard to withstand the challenge.

We had apartments with 2 or 4 beds each with a separate bathroom. We had a great time The dives were nice although not weary various.
We used the possibility to make as many deep dives as possible because the sites for this kind of diving were relatively near the shore.

We dove twice a day. We also made one night dive at witch we saw many small fishes.