Ohrid and Popova Shapka to be linked with mountain track

New 184 mountain tracks will be marked across Macedonia, so that fans of nature will be able to pass the territory of the entire country through the mountains and connect with other countries’ mountain tracks, writes “Dnevnik”.

The project for organizing new mountain tracks in 2014 will be realized by the Government’s Agency for Promotion and Support of Tourism in Macedonia. Through the Programme for Rural Development , the Agency for Financial Support in Agriculture and Rural Development within the Ministry of Agriculture provided around EUR 300,ooo for the project.

The longest, 200 km is the track from Skopje to Krusevo, and the toughest and the most beautiful, the whole above 2,000 m elevation is the one from Popova Shapka to Ohrid, 137 km long. Professional mountaineers can pass it for 7 to 10 days.