if you're visiting skopje and you wanted to know which one's better
vodno mountain and the millennium cross or the matka canyon this video is just for you
i'm at the base of vodno mountain and trying to get to the cross this is closed so we're
going to hike up ooh not excited about that but something to do in skopje so must do let's go
you can also go up using the cable car but it was closed during my visit
and i actually enjoy hiking more so why not
yay i did it it only took about 1 hour 40 to 45 minutes at an easy pace um it wasn't a
very difficult hike but i made it i'm at the vodno mountain and right next to the cross
so i'm gonna chill here for a bit see if i can see the sunset here
and then try to get back down i'm really proud of myself not only because i did it but i did
it in my flip-flops because i didn't really come you know prepared for this so look i'm not lying
it is quite interesting that if you stand here on this mountain you can see half of the
population of north macedonia which lives in skopje which is right in front of you
so this is vodno mountain and this is the highest point near scopje now this is an
incredible place because of the cross and it is there to commemorate 2 000 years of christianity
i mean the birth of christ basically and the fact that macedonia accepted christianity as the first
european nation so it was put here in year 2000 and now they're building another tv antenna there
will be a fancy restaurant here as well it's not completed yet but it's still an amazing place to
come you can see the view of the entire city and the valley around and it's a great place
it's going to vodno takes about half a day and it's quite nice and i would definitely recommend
doing it in the afternoon so you can see the sunset now let's move on to the second place
it's really warm today which means we can spend time in matka canyon right
so i'm heading there now it will take it's about 20 kilometers and you can either take the bus
number 60 from the city center or if you're lazy like me you can take the taxi which will cost you
roughly 10 euros around 600 so let's see what matka canyon is like i am excited apparently
we can do kayaking there which i haven't done in quite some time so looking forward to that
this is matka canyon i got some fresh strawberries let's continue walking
do you see that little yellow thing on top that's a kayak i don't know how it got there
that's really high up but damn whoever did that was crazy
this is matka and this is the canyon right in front now this is not a lake it's a
man-made reservoir it's a dam it used to produce electricity for skopje all of skopje it still does
but a small portion now so you can walk along the line of the ridges and which i did for a
little bit but i'm just feeling lazy by the way that's not the matka monastery that's really high
up there in the mountains and since i'm lazy today i'm gonna take a boat i was really hoping to kayak
but i'm just too lazy now so let's go see the boat it is not that expensive if it's a shared boat
it's like 200 300 dinars each person but if you want to get a full boat to yourself it's like
20 euros to the cave to vrelo cave and then all the way back it takes about an hour both ways let's go
walking along the ridges is actually quite nice but i was in a very lazy mood and sitting at the
boat just looking at this beautiful setting was definitely my favorite thing to do we actually
didn't go to vrelo cave because it's quite far and the sun was already setting and it
was getting dark so if you're coming to matka canyon i would recommend coming in the morning
i would recommend coming to matka in the morning especially on a weekday a work day
because people in skopje really like to come here and if there's more people you won't get
to enjoy the peace and serenity as i did just made a new friend he's a bit shy say hello
hello hello
so funny
so out of my two favorite places in skopje vodno mountain and matka canyon which one
do you like more i mean try to guess which i liked more and let me know in comments
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