THINGS TO SEE IN PRISTINA SKOPJE
At the beginning of the year, choose one of the Pegasus campaigns to discover Places to Visit in Pristina and Skopje We buy our flight tickets to Pristina, back to Skopje. Days pass, months pass, 21. On our anniversary we deliver our lambs to the tender arms of their mothers, our plane begins to soar in the air on a sunny Friday afternoon.. The sky is so clear, below 1. and 2. I can choose the bridge, the Ömerli dam, the islands, the big and small lakes of Çekirge and the island of Marmara.. I start humming a song, based on the meaning and importance of the moment.. “From a distance theeere is haaarmony and it echoes through the laaand…” Does the song I sing create a lullaby effect on me, I soon fall asleep. Flight time is only 1 hour and 20 minutes, ‘We’re starting to descend for landing’ interrupts my sweet sleep. The plane is not approaching the bellows, I’m not even sure if there is a bellows at this airport. I went through the bellows, I guess there is no bus. We go down the stairs and walk in the open area towards the terminal..
PRISTINA AIRPORT
PRISTINA SKOPJE TRAVEL GUIDE Other passengers are followed when getting off the plane in a city visited for the first time , passport control is passed, if a suitcase is given at check-in, the suitcase is waited at the beginning of the rotating band. This routine is the same for every city, performed without thinking about it, following the herd.. The first moment to think is the moment when you leave the terminal and try to figure out how to get to the city center while looking around with a suitcase in hand for the first time.. Whether you are a thrifty tourist, look for the subway, etc., whether you are on a business trip or in the back country, look for a taxi stand, that surprise is sure to be experienced.. Just in that moment of bewildered duck, I see an older Turkish officer in uniform, who we call a pocket knife, telling something in Turkish to the person next to him.. I need help immediately. Thanks to him, he immediately jumps out and takes us to the taxi drivers and connects the door they opened from 25 Euros to 15 Euros, making sure that the driver understands the address, and sends us off.. “Hey,” says the Turkish soldier, whose eyes I love, and we are happy that we can handle this easily, and we start to watch the surroundings on the way to Pristina centre.. No matter how I describe the surroundings, it’s like traveling back in time… We see heaps of old and dilapidated buildings.. High-rise buildings, most of which have not been plastered, have been newly built right next to them.. And the kind of city buses that I vaguely remember getting on in my childhood, when I was very young…
THE PLACES TO SEE PRISTINA
We are slightly worried, we say that the center is not like this. We console each other, for example, think of the road between Ankara Esenboğa and the center.. We guess that we are approaching the center because a serious traffic begins. So much so that it takes half an hour to reach our hotel from the point where the traffic starts, even though it is around 4:00.. “I guess worse than living in Istanbul and driving traffic would be living in such a city and driving traffic” says my wife. What a need for the right word! Well, if we are in the center, why is there no improvement in what we see around? We wonder if the driver did not understand the address, so he is taking us to another place?. I show the man the address again. He doesn’t speak English or Turkish, he just keeps saying “Ok, Ok” and I’m getting scabies.. Finally, I see Hotel Prima in a strange street with auto repair shops on one side, a grocery store on one side, and a grocery store on the other.. Finally! This time we got away with the organ mafia. I look like my mom as I get older. When I’m stressed, my imagination knows no bounds. Our hotel is an oasis in the desert! A tiny and brand new hotel with 3 floors and 7 rooms.
ACCOMMODATION IN PRISTINA
He gets excited when he sees the date February 17 somewhere on my wife’s passport.. “This is the date when our independence was declared, it is very important for us”. E guys, it’s been 5 years since they declared their independence, we say excitement is normal and we pretend to be very impressed by this coincidence 🙂 Our Kosovar brother explains where we will visit on the map beautifully. At the top of the Places to See in Pristina list, Mother Teresa Street and its square are the most famous places in the city. In fact, if you are not interested in mosques, complexes and churches like us, it is difficult to find a place to visit other than this street and the streets connected to it..
PLACES TO SEE IN PRISTINA
Places to visit and places to see list the street at the beginning of the city is very beautiful compared to the rest of the city, but let’s give it justice. We have almost everything that deserves the title of being the main street of a city, whether it’s the Istiklal Street, closed to traffic, cafes, restaurants, peddlers selling popcorn and cotton candy, stands where bazaar-style products are marketed. have elements. Our hotel is within walking distance from here. After walking around the street three or five times and visiting one or two side streets, 21. We are looking for a restaurant worthy of our anniversary celebration.. There are dozens of cafes but very few restaurants. They’re just going out for coffee and eating at home, I guess. Socialize for 1 Euro! Oh what a homeland. The currency of Kosovo is Euro. You don’t have to worry about calculating the price you have to pay like in countries with a proprietary currency, that’s good news.. We cannot find a taste of Balkan cuisine in the menus of stylish restaurants.. Italian cuisine if any. We accept our fate, choose the one whose ambiance we like the most and have a romantic dinner..
DINNER IN PRISTINA
When our waiter realizes that we are Turkish, he starts speaking in broken Turkish, we chat a little. Although ninety percent of the population in Kosovo is Albanian, at least 300 thousand people in the country know Turkish because Turkish is taught as a subject in many schools and some of them learned it from their parents. > there was. It makes one proud to hear that knowing Turkish in another country is a virtue.. We listen to romantic songs from a cute girl and her saz friends in a bar with live music after dinner.. We say romance up to a point and then visit all kinds of bars that play local, latin, oldies, house etc. and get honey from each flower.. Without fainting from exhaustion, we take a taxi and arrive at the hotel for 1.5 Euros.. Taxi in Pristina is quite cheap and without saying, they open a meter, even that is a sign of development in my opinion.. Already, the Balkan countries have developed in the sense of civilization, albeit not economically… Buildings, cars, stores are from Noah, but you somehow feel that you are in Europe because of the respect people have for others, their being in social life, whether young or old.. The next morning, after breakfast, on the recommendation of the owner of our hotel, we go to Germia Park, which is on the Places to See in Pristina list, just outside the center. Sounds pretty featureless, we’re back.
PLACES TO SEE IN PRISTINA
You can say that everything is on Mother Teresa Street and choose from cafes here we sit on one and enjoy the autumn sun. The climate here is continental.. We witness that the temperature, which rises above 20 degrees at noon, goes down to zero at night.. Already Pristina means bad season in Albanian.. It’s an unbalanced cool city, in short.. After enjoying the coffee, we say goodbye to Sister Terasa and go to the bus station as we grab our governor from the hotel.. We get a laugh when we see the vehicle we will go from Pristina to Skopje.
TRANSPORT FROM PRISTINA TO SKOPJE
When he realizes that the driver is speaking Turkish to the person next to him, he asks “Uncle, are you old or is this minibus?”, “Same, same” says uncle. Although we did not linger at the border between Kosovo and Macedonia, the 1.5 hour journey takes 2.5 hours with our takatuka. Towards the end of the journey, afflicted me. As soon as we arrive in Skopje, we leave our luggage at our hotel and throw ourselves into the streets. Here we are in Bascarsija, which is at the top of the list ofUPlaces to Visit in Istanbul . This area is such a small place that it takes at most 5 minutes to find the Pavillon Restaurant, which Löplöpçüler, one of the flavor-loving friends, mentioned on his blog at the entrance of Kapan Han.. This is a small cute square like a courtyard. There are 3 meatball shops under the same tree with their tables and chairs.. We immediately say one portion of finger meatballs and another portion of pleskavitsa. Finger meatballs, which I call rubber meatballs, are similar to Tekirdağ or Sultanahmet meatballs, but are slightly thicker and longer.. Pleskavitsa is a large, thick, huge meatball.. We like Plescavitsa more. Because it is thick, the meatballs do not dry out, and when cut with a knife, the meat juices leak out, just like we like.. My mouth is watering even typing this :). This feast of taste is accompanied by our shepherd’s salad, ayran and new raki.. Yes, there is raki in the meatball shop.. And for a money equivalent to 4 liras! The only problem is that they bring a glass of water.. So many faults happen to the kadı girl too 🙂 We eat a delicious meal under the tree in a nice weather and pay an account that corresponds to 30 lira and set off happily for a walk..
THINGS TO SEE IN SKOPJE
Skopje is divided in two by the Vardar River. Located on the side of the city where the Muslim Albanians live, the old bazaar reminds me of an Anatolian city in Safranbolu style with its cobblestone streets, jewelers, meatball shops, inns, Turkish baths, and coffee houses where the male-dominated mass drinks tea from thin-waisted cups.. When we cross the historical bridge to the other side of the river where the Orthodox Macedonians live, we are greeted by the appearance of a standard European city with decent restaurants, cafes, shops, stylish girls and boys.. We have our dinner at Bella Vista in a restaurant decorated with the concept of a botanical garden on the Macedonian side. Chopsticks, snail sausage and Macedonian salad are quite successful.
DINNER IN SKOPJE
A sweet girl enters the restaurant with her guitar in hand, begins to sing and play nostalgic pieces like the memories 9 tape, and I accompany her. i do. Then we start our night tour.. Our first stop is a place where people eat and drink at the table, and a band consisting of soloists and keyboards plays and sings Balkan music in a staged area.. We are very similar to our concept of fasıllı or tavern with live music. While the men continue to eat and drink where they sit, the girls sometimes sit and sometimes get up and break their necks.. The melodies are very similar. After each song starts, we are surprised by this similarity and say “Same same”. As one of the girls jumped onto the stage, she grabbed the microphone and started to sing.. “Same same”. After visiting a few more bars with beer in their hands and young people hanging on their feet, (all these places are all side by side), the finale is full plus full of its huge interior where dozens of young people form long queues at its door. We’re doing it in a nightclub where.
ENTERTAINMENT IN SKOPJE
The next morning, in the breakfast room of our hotel Orange Inn, we are at your aunt’s oven in the kitchen. When we arrived, after we had tasted the warm pastries, we toured flea market and Bascarsija again and shopped. I saw that the finger meatballs of the side restaurant in the courtyard where we ate meatballs yesterday were fuller, therefore I thought that the meatballs would be more suitable for my taste, so I targeted that place for today.. My guess is correct and we eat the most amazing finger meatballs of the trip at this place called Turist .
WHERE TO EAT MEATBALL IN SKOPJE?
This time, our finger meatballs are accompanied by the pleskavitsa we ate yesterday, dried beans with butter in a casserole and roasted peppers. doing. We can’t slow down and wrap a portion of meatballs for my mother.. And the finale… We reach Skopje airport in half an hour, after a taxi driver agreed for 15 Euros, which was renovated by the Turkish TAV group in 2011.. Our tour Pristina / Skopje started on Friday afternoon and ends on Sunday afternoon. We agree with the comments that both are cities that can be visited in a single day, and we return to our homeland and our lambs happily..
SKOPJE TRAVEL GUIDE
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