Just fifteen kilometers afar from Скопје you can discover the Матка canyon. Here the river Treska is floating through high mountains (up to 700 meters high) and a dam for generating electricity formed a beautiful lake. People get there to take a boat tour, to rent a canoe or to simply hike through the valley. The place also offers a wonderful restaurant with good views on the lake and two tiny cloisters hidden in the mountains.
Матка is really worth a trip and most people take the boat tour to the Vrelo cave, one of the deepest underwater caves in the world. The boat tour takes around 20 minutes through beautiful nature and at the end you can climb up to the cave and walk into the upper part. There you’ll find a large illuminated flowstone cave; not the biggest I’ve ever seen, but a beautiful one. Diving within the deep cave is only for experts and not possible for tourists.
Vrelo cave
Matka canyon
Матка / Matka
North Macedonia
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