What a great adventure this was. Lovely climb up to the ski center and then challenging but rewarding hike to the Big Lake. First section follows river/creek Sapunđica all the way to the beginning. It was like hiking in the jungle. Tick forest and bushes with sections of tall grass. Once you pass 1800m, forest disappears and you are surrounded with only juniper bushes, wild blueberries and low grass.
Begging of Sapunđica is interesting, more then ten springs from the same mountain slope flow down to the valley and create Sapunđica. All this happens on an area of few acres.
At one point I could see, and take a picture, both Prespa lakes, small and big. The small one (left) belongs to Greece and most of the big one belongs to Macedonia. Just incredible.
Original plan was to ride a bike to the summit Pelister 2600m by the road that leads to the telecommunication tower but our biking friend, who tried that, told me that road is unusable for the bikes so I changed my mind. I had enough torture already.
I'm glad that I did as this mixed tour was real gem.
Happy pedaling