Macedonia Travel Guides

portals that lead to the third heaven - if right keys rests on right notation



i have remembered Prilep by its food as earthly so as heavenly, tho among tourists it is most renowned by its poisons like tobacco or beer, highly praised among the pelagonian temptations! take this friendly advice > put them aside if u have any intention to be explorer and grasp some extra energies that are bursting around the mountains of central and northern Pelagonia [1]   

lets say Prilep is our royal city, coz not many cities in Macedonia had dense ruling history, and among those few this place is certainly one, yes in or near Prilep once were seating mighty kings, in antiquity the pelagonian king Aeropus on Selechka mountain [1] (tho archaeologist assume that his son reign there [2][3]) later in medieval times here reigned Komita Nikola where later also died his son Tsar Samoil [1] and 5 centuries later in Prilep flourished last kingdom in Macedonia with its epic ruler Krali Marko and his father king Volkashin [1] also the first president of liberated Macedonia is from Prilep, so it could be said that here (in this independent part of Macedonia) Prilep was abiding imperial residence, maybe not without reason coz here is the only excavation site for rubies in Macedonia which specimens are clearest from all eu [1][2] stil place famous by its Marko and not its rubies

Marko was associated with large, solitary boulders and indentations in rocks the boulders were said to be thrown by him from the hills and the indentations were his footprints (or the hoofprints of his horse)... According to folk tradition Marko never died; he lives on in a cave, in an unknown land. ... According to Macedonian tradition Marko drank "eagle's water", which made him immortal; he is with Elijah in heaven [1]

[1] http://prilep-bouldering.com [1][2]

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i had to differ the pagan and antipagan art with that prominent note above, altho creativity burst here in all the times, yet in the middle ages veneration didnt went directly to the Art only to GOD and btw to Art, so last time when i was in late antiquity it was woven around Christianity in time of peaceful wars among the people on this macedonian peninsular workshop - peaceful for art and bloody for artists - coz borders couldnt ruin the common belief in God and all associate art, with exception of that which was written or handcrafted [1] tho not all of it went down the drain!

i'll skip the renaissance talk [1] rather suggesting attention to the symbols

use ur historic-strabism and through them seek for connections in future with one eye in the past



http://muzejterakota.mk/english/introduction.html

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http://haemus.org.mk/kurbinovo-monastery/

all in all whole region around the Treska Gorge (now plumbed with two dams) is surrounded with the one of the largest limestone massifs in Europe right beneath mount Karajitsa of the massif Yakupitsa [1] and its national park Yasen [2] which means Clear, tho now also fuzzy coz the cloudy waters of its new lake [3][4] which actually is the main culprit for the winter smog in the capital [5] altho not the only one

except endemic flora and fauna, neanderthals, hermits and knights/hunters, in our caves normally there could be found dragons too, mostly through their legends and names like Alilica (she-dragon) [1] the beautiful Golem Zmejovec (large dragon) and Mai Zmejovec (small dragon) [2] as such intended to keep children away, or mineral hunters today [3] which actually in limestone areas couldnt find many [4] even less some precious or semi-precious [5]

museums with rare local minerals could be found in Skopye, Kratovo and Probishtip, also many could be bought around the macedonian gemstone workshops [1][2][3]
there is also announcement for new big museum near the mind of Alshar but for now there is only legends and mysteries in front [1] one of which was also filmed back in the 90's [2]
at last whole Macedonia is like iridescent plate if u can open ur spiritual eyes and see whats lying around, museums hm if u ask me we need them only as chekpoints, but from this aspect we a in shortage

dont forget if you want to keep some stone memory, do it artisticaly through some filigree [1] instead rogh stones

wait, dont skip cities around 10k
like Berovo, Kratovo, Palanka, Pehchevo or Vinitsa ( all in east Macedonia
or the western ones like Debar, Krusevo or Hisar

btw search for light storytellers

http://vimeo.com/user8259270/videos/page:3/

Skopye Whats Up
through our Roma cocitizens i think we have unusual connection with the happy brazilians, tho many will say they are more like indians, other that they are more like chikano, but the truth is that the Roma community here is pure tropicalism - thats why i am seeing them as brazilians, tho early with their baggy harem pants they were looking more like true turkish crowd from the middle ages, something that is almost rare appearance now, reserved only for the rural elders, or some endangered traditionalist in Shutka - the most famous roma stronghold in Europe [1][2][3]    
indeed Shutka is First and Largest Official Roma Community in europe, and maybe in the world, tho there are extra overpopulated places with gypsys around the globe probably having also own local authorities, and maybe i am too unreal but we have more than local glorification for the Roma people, YES Macedonian Roma to my knowledge, only here are officially recognized as nation and not just some nationality or some minority i.e. first state in the world that recognize them as constitutional nation in its country...

only thing that makes this part of the town somehow creepy is not the people, their poverty or the lack of urbanism, but the skopyes custody-prison which is almost at the entrance of Shutka as symbolic spatial greeting that this ghetto is captivity for the living but also for the dead coz right after Shutka there are the main citys cemeteries, yep creepy i know, but they decided there to blossom or maybe thats was just only place where they would be left alone to live their fractal idealism, which actualy is exploding also in other places around Skopye like the neighborhoods of Topana and Gazi Baba, the first one across the us embassy, and the second one across the old bazar, funny few years ago us-embassy asked the city officials if they could dislocate this borou but eventually withheld its own fears when they have run across the neighboring albanian quart from behind JaJa Pasha, simply all these places are waiting for reurbanization

and all this hype with this place i think is super-offensive for the Roma community coz here in macedonia they are not at all getoized, and mainly educated and hard working, tho keeping travelers tradition there can be stil found mid-size nomad caravans which are seasonally searching for work around the country, today tho all of them looks more like gangs than else coz the cars and the styles!
Shutka has also many world famous names like - Esma the famous balkan gypsy queen, Jasmin the wife of Bony-M singer, Ferus our macedonian Miles Davis etc...
...and if we count as naming there are plenty macedonian romans that are famous world historic persons such Saint Justinian - yep why not to see nowadays roma nation as ex-roman nephews and their successors and at last thez are ROMs who live in ROM (rep.of.Mac.) so roma people here could enjoy their existence with special dignity through their special serendipity...

to be honest it is enough, that despite we have some issue with the neighboring slavic brothers, with Russia we dont have any, even more coz as always they have recognized us as different [1] altho pressured by other european powers, but also from own imperial interest to get mediterranean exit, Russia accepted partitioning of Macedonia while favoring greater Bulgaria instead [2][3] tho tsars earlier had one agenda while bolsheviks other

1901 - A.V. Amfiteatrov:... They consider me a bulgarophile, I.A. Zinovjev told me. But it isn't so at all. I behave in perfectly equal manner to all Slavs, and, if a person is decent and likable, it is all the same to me whether he is a Bulgarian, a Serb or a Macedonian. But I am a Russian representative and I have been sent here to protect, first of all, Russian interests. Permanent patronage over the Balkan Slavs is inseparably linked with Russian interests. We are their natural patrons. But this patronage does not mean Russia's following of Slav leaders [1]

then again Russians today know and remember their cultural and spiritual roots unlike many others

http://www.slavorum.org/forum/discussion/6361/russian-patriarch-the-russian-empire-always-tried-to-defend-the-macedonian-peop

the real question is do we need calm neighbors and friends, Yes, then is there anyone that can guarantee such thing, maybe there is, but nowadays thats not Russia but USA coz they've scheduled all the balkans as theirs for the next decades through their nato checkpoints in Bosnia and Kosovo, and if we are smart we could save our peace of heaven only if we are neutral, which is verified by the greek veto for what we as macedonians should be tankful, actually coz their ego we are stopped officially to join the imperial clubs of otan and eu, something that will make form us literally Switzerland on the Balkans, THE LAND OF THE FREE people and trees, now and here Freedom is bursting from every atom in our history, for which we are not aware at all, altho always assured by extraordinary things e.g. like those docked white ships around the Skopyes Stone Bridge...

              


Edited by beTon - 02-Aug-2017 at 12:21

near to our largest spring, near to our heart, there is our most precious multiethnic city known as Gostivar the birth place of Voyislava [1] mother of Iskandar [2] place where Vardar our biggest river is storming unifying flow from all the mountains around, river bursting in the famous village of Vrutok which is settled on the slopes of Mount Bistra right by the Korab and Shar mountains [3]

also GostiVar has even multiethnic name - compound from the macedonian word for Guest and the turkish at hand in this way holding strong ethereal meaning nowadays (times where we are focusing to find super-leisure) meaning that suggests to visitors where they could relax and recharge their own vital vibe... so in the middle ages Gostivar might have been such a place and shaped its own name because... surely back then Voyislava as tribalian princess was using only the slavic part of the name - the word GOST (guest), while VAR was added later after ottomans finally conquered this land, altho century earlier they arrived here even voluntary abducting her son Gyorgi (george) as blood-tax to the empire [1] practice that survived all ottoman ages absorbing chosen boys for the Yanissaries [2] practice strongly memorized in our folklore from poems til songs [3] 'even rivers and mountains are stil witnesses'



like a water Gyorgi Kastriot became most famous Yanissar in whole ottoman empire becoming even Valiya here, but after what he started to waking up his orthodox christian tradition against his new imposed shiya muslim nlp, reorganizing its countryman in its old-new kingdom at the Holly-Banat i.e. Al-Baniya, fast uplifting unbreakable wall for ottomans easily to conquer rest of the europe, this fact was acknowledged even in his time coz without his resistance ottomans would have extra force later for the european campaigns, thus Skandarbey i.e. Iskandar is remembered as savior of european Christianity mostly the catholic one while reason of forced assimilation of orthodoxy...

i dont want to misuse his bravery stating that he is Macedonian (coz its orthodoxy) or Albanian (coz its birthplace) but i'll say he is chance for our multiethnic cohabitation, in a way we celebrate his resistance against the invaders trough own festivities instead through common one, he is and will be link even between serbian and macedonian slavic tribes his mother was from serbian (tribalian one) and his father from macedonian (miyak one) and here lie its historic knot that nowadays albanians state that he is not miyak but albanian tho as slav he was and stil is miles from the specific tosk or geg origin of nowadays albanians (tho today 30% of albanians in Albania are orthodox miyaks), in same way Nikola Tesla is miyak too (but celebrated as serb or croat) coz his ancestors as most of the rebelling miyaks back then (after the fall of the Kastrioti kingdome) found refuge in Sicily, Dalmatia an Venetia (When Iskender-beg died in 1468 a number of the Albanians involved in his struggle against the Ottomans either retired to the mountains or migrated to the kingdom of Naples. In 1478, 1481 and 1492 more Albanians migrated to Southern Italy and Sicily where they preserved their language and customs down to the present day.) [1]

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this aborted possessivity of historic figures like Alexander the Great or Iskander (turkish name for Alexander) can be real problem if there is no other religion here than nationalism, luckily both Orthodoxy and Islam dont give enough room for this kind of tribal worship to become iminent, altho there is space for cultural self-identification yeah Orthodox macedonians acknowledging pagan hero as Alex and Muslim albanians acknowledge orthodox hero as Skenderbay - what a hypocritical space of mediocrity all of this just shows how fused history we have here, with steaming potential that makes from all of this peninsula one endemic multinational garden...

Originally posted by Max this paradox from all balkan ethnocentrism is simply elaborated in the satirical documentary - whose is this song [1][2][3] in which I can gladly add that only in macedonia was honestly stated that is cover of turkich song

Edited by beTon - 02-Aug-2017 at 12:21

dont forget TRAVELING could be either Quest or Decadence which depends on few small things like expanding Your Free Will and usually searching for Sweet Temptations

funny the latest neoclassicism in Skopye can lite them both, verified talent that cant be found in any other balkan tavern, he is trying to pull off your free will in times like naked antiquity when epicurean logic blasted away the life around, but also its reminiscence in the eve of the two world wars when ottomans were expelled from here while we welcomed the western masonic pride and all its cards like cheap-bordels (brothels) which now are available only high in the mountains while back then were flourishing downtown people say almost whole was red district досие-скопје-2 then came Tito and made this history - maybe only good thing that he has done for Macedonia - maybe enough    

unlike today, ten years ago in our soc-demo transition Charshiya was drug hot-spot in Macedonia, chilled by well educated drug users, transition which opened few other main-spots in the city which are alive even today, need update citation, where tourist should not stroll for fun, like the famous Dizonska and more notorious Ordan Chopela, the first one in the hearth of Chair and the second in the hearth of Gazi Baba yaya-pasha now is straight, although if you ask me every neighborhood in our perpetumobile metropolis has own evil corner or spot, So if you sense some avoid it with big tomorrow smile because here murders are rare as mountain lions, yet there are rumors that there is active organ exchange liver is always in shortage especially lately after many junk-drugs appeared here in '00s from downers til uppers, ah '90s at least you would fry only your brain now everything from first hand! now upper like mdma is pure poison and speed is fine kerosine [1] for white and yellow brownies today dont even think - all of them gmo modified !!!

who in the world have Isis on their 10 bill as most common baknote in any place, actualy its not so scary moment because there is Peacokc an early bizantine Pavo from the basilica mosaique in Stoby which strikes as observe side althought oficcialy is the reverse one [1] just one of all imposibilities here this with pagan vs Christian mood on tis shoulders [1]

btw bill with&without uv watermarks http://monedasybilletes.jimdo.com/billetes-del-mundo/billetes-de-europa/macedonia/

Originally posted by Max or maybe our careless habits here are hanged around our necks as curse coz our money, that holds the name DENar meaning DAY so its enjoyfull shiny for anyone to spend this currency that has unique banknotes e.g. maybe only in the world with images of Most Holy Marry and Archangel Gabriel + the Phoenix Pavo, but also - poppy flowers, isis, cerberus and maenad, it could be eloquently said that those are unsuitable choices for banknotes, if anybody cares for the feelings of the faithful which are condemned to trade with holy or unholy images! yep go with flow mentality...

i wonder did nature or humans mutulated this torso maybe the

uranian aphrodite as revenge
still people see Isis as Ghea thus mother earth, yet they forget that paganism was constantly evolving its myths so no one knows what was actualy true, some even go further finding dna-messages inbetween - 'The truth about the Great Mother is just that she is Love, the darkness is nullified because Life is Born again...it is in the evil minds of men that have tarnished the truth...no sacrifices are needed to her but to love one another. All else is a lie.'
if the oracle from delphi was destroyed by Apolon [1] then Ghea here is done and Simit is the One [2] in Skopje it could be obtain unbelievably professional from the largest bakery in Chair located right in front of OC Saint George
must ad that people rarly choose to overeat Simit but when they do its like dream come true - normaly if there is hunger as inspiration but also Yogurt as motivation, who knows maybe our Isis once was served Simit after what she have lost its own head & extremities

btw from new year 'isis' made folklore holiday companied by black fridays or halloweens, even Santa have become her best winter pitch for soft drinks and sugar candyes so more and more people it could stay asleep [1] strange She which force passions kills our emotions smoothly while She swimming&emjoying its own matrix