Still having a full iterinary here, what I really like! ..it was a tiresome day to drive to Skopje (maybe connected with that drunken phase I had the night before). Was driving along some dam lakes only stopping for food and for gas. Then I arrived in Skopje and it really tore me down. It's an ugly city with a depressing vibe that got hold of me from the beginning. I wonder why any tourist would ever go there, except because you flew into this place. Best thing was taking pictures of the statues in the center and imaginaging what characters these would represent in a first person shooter and what special abilities they would have. Oh yes.. and I got some furs for not too much money and sent them home (as I'm not sure if they are all really legal.. they should. it's at least no wolf amongst them). Could have bought all kind of pelts (from house cat to Macedonian wolf), but first of all, I don't support poaching and second of all, they still were kinda pricy. Might also be, I was getting ripped off in this town. The center is full with shops that sell juwellery, souvenirs and shit and as mentioned befor: I didn't like the vibes at all!! Skopje is expensive (I paid more for my room and got much less) and people are even more struggling for survival and you can feel that. After the peaceful ambience of Ohrid, this was really shocking.
So I changed my plans immediately of staying two nights and left the next morning as early as possible to Prilep, where I just made contact with a local paragliding instructor who told me, that he has some equipment to rent. With the prospect of flying, I speeded thing up and drove down the highway to meet him as soon as possible. We spent part of the day doing some ground handling on a hill that pops out in the flats that are surrounded by some mountains. The rest of the time I tagged along with him, met his family and had really tasty food! In the evening we were going out and it was a lot of fun!! :D There was even some electronic music and lots of drinking and very pretty Macedonian girls that of course all like to talk to you, once they figure out, that you're from Switzerland ;) (it's pretty easy to let them know by just saying "hello, how are you" in not-Macedonian ;) haha ;)
Today we spent the whole day back on that fly site and I did more groundhandling and practiced some take-offs and landings. Didn't really have long flights (couple of times a minute of soaring or so), but could re-activate all my paragliding skills and hunger for more now!! :D I actually think of post-poning my plans for Burning Man for a year. First of all the uncertainty if this will work out or not is killing me and second: I have another reason more to go back to Colombia, what I definitively should do in Fall! (that would be about reason #4). So if I'm back and I haven't heard of my camp, then I'll do the Colombia-thing (would be OK though, if I'm not hooking up until then, because Colombia is way more fun if you're single ;)
So all in all the last days were stuffed with interesting activities, good food, fun, meeting new people, learning some cultural stuff (e.g. here you don't drink grappa to digest, but you have it with the salad that makes the entry of each meal ;) and way too soon, I need to get ready to move on. I still have a couple of days left of this awesome trip, but also a few thousand kilometers to ride. So if I want or not, I need to continue tomorrow and see that I can bring me and the bike a bit further North (as I was driving South all the time when this trip started). I'll still make it back in time, but as there are still plenty of places I want to visit, I'll be more relaxed, if drive the next two days at least 400km each.
So after diving and paragliding it's only horse back riding and skydiving that's amiss. I should check for horses in the Tara-Canyon and let's see if Montenegro has a skydiving club ;)
So I changed my plans immediately of staying two nights and left the next morning as early as possible to Prilep, where I just made contact with a local paragliding instructor who told me, that he has some equipment to rent. With the prospect of flying, I speeded thing up and drove down the highway to meet him as soon as possible. We spent part of the day doing some ground handling on a hill that pops out in the flats that are surrounded by some mountains. The rest of the time I tagged along with him, met his family and had really tasty food! In the evening we were going out and it was a lot of fun!! :D There was even some electronic music and lots of drinking and very pretty Macedonian girls that of course all like to talk to you, once they figure out, that you're from Switzerland ;) (it's pretty easy to let them know by just saying "hello, how are you" in not-Macedonian ;) haha ;)
Today we spent the whole day back on that fly site and I did more groundhandling and practiced some take-offs and landings. Didn't really have long flights (couple of times a minute of soaring or so), but could re-activate all my paragliding skills and hunger for more now!! :D I actually think of post-poning my plans for Burning Man for a year. First of all the uncertainty if this will work out or not is killing me and second: I have another reason more to go back to Colombia, what I definitively should do in Fall! (that would be about reason #4). So if I'm back and I haven't heard of my camp, then I'll do the Colombia-thing (would be OK though, if I'm not hooking up until then, because Colombia is way more fun if you're single ;)
So all in all the last days were stuffed with interesting activities, good food, fun, meeting new people, learning some cultural stuff (e.g. here you don't drink grappa to digest, but you have it with the salad that makes the entry of each meal ;) and way too soon, I need to get ready to move on. I still have a couple of days left of this awesome trip, but also a few thousand kilometers to ride. So if I want or not, I need to continue tomorrow and see that I can bring me and the bike a bit further North (as I was driving South all the time when this trip started). I'll still make it back in time, but as there are still plenty of places I want to visit, I'll be more relaxed, if drive the next two days at least 400km each.
So after diving and paragliding it's only horse back riding and skydiving that's amiss. I should check for horses in the Tara-Canyon and let's see if Montenegro has a skydiving club ;)
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