Lipkovo

          It was 2th of august, day when a lot of people on the world commemorate the holocaust of the Roma people during the World War Two, but in Macedonia is also Day of the Republic, so for many people free day. With other EVS volunteers from Multikulti centre in Kumanovo we decided to spend this hot day, when temperature was keeping around 40 degrees at Lipkovo, lake just a few kilometres away from Kumanovo.

          By car it was around 30 minutes, direction to Kosovo borders. In this area of Macedonia majority of people are Albanian ethnicity. During armed conflict in 2001 between Albanian National Libertation Army and Macedonian army Lipkovo was central strategic village.

          But back to the closer history. After Lipkovo village we saw very nice smaller lake, what was sign that this small trip will worth it, and it definitely was. From the old road we saw the beauty of the nature and clear water of Lipkovo lake in the middle of not high hills covered by green forrest. In a very hot weather some volunteers decided to hide under the trees a few meters from the water, while other volunteers including me decided to go kayaking (in my case just trying).

          Great thing about Lipkovo is that although it is very beautiful lake with a clean water, it is very hard to see there many tourists, so on the „beaches“ you have a lot of place for yourself. From the kayak on the surface of the water you can watch the nice surrounding and in the middle of lake is a small island for somebody who really love jumping to the clear water. After the hour of kayaking we realized that hunger is not a good friend so we packed our kayak, waited for another few minutes for the guys who borrowed our another kayak and didn´t have the need to return it and we went to the local restaurant.

    Lipkovo is great example that maybe Macedonia is not very famous as a touristic country with seacoast, but still dispose with a many beautiful places worth to visit J. Considering the fact that we are living in Kumanovo, we know that Lipkovo is still with us, cause it supplies the whole town with water.