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Feel Prespa

High mountains, a valley, a lake, an island. Blue skies and blue waters shaded by folliage and rocky hights. Older generations remember a time when the lake was in full splendor, yet it is still...

Matka Canyon

Little Mount Athos, the land of butterflies, the most beautiful canyon in Macedonia guarding one of the deepest underwater caves in Europe. This is Matka Canyon in one sentence with so much left unsaid. The...

Turkey has its own Loch Ness

Turkey has its own Loch Ness

People love unsolved mysteries. They enjoy reading about mythological creatures or supernatural phenomena. Some mystery lovers read these stories for sheer amusement, whereas others believe they are true. That is why we still have the...

Matka – embrace of nature!

Balkon3 takes you on a boat ride through Matka Canyon, down the Treska river to Vrelo cave. The canyon is situated only 15 km from Skopje and Vrelo cave is one of the deepest underwater...

A boat ride through three countries

A boat ride through three countries

In Europe there are only three lakes whose waters connect the territories of three different countries and one of those lakes is right here in the Balkans, Lake Prespa where the borders of Macedonia, Greece...

Balkon3 Searching for the Loch Ness Monster

Balkon3 Searching for the Loch Ness Monster

Every time I browse through Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World a childhood dream recurs, a dream that brought us to one of the most popular and most mysterious places on Earth, Loch Ness, a lake...

The mysterious resident of Lake Ohrid – The freshwater crab

The mysterious resident of Lake Ohrid – The freshwater crab

Yes, you should not wonder about it. This is a less known fact, but despite the famous endemic species of fish, the Lake Ohrid is a natural environment for two crab species that until recently...

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