Top Skopje Outdoor Activities

The naturally beautiful region of Mavrovo can be tricky to visit from Skopje without hiring a car. On this full-day tour, visit with ease and learn about the area from a guide. Depart from your Skopje hotel and learn about Mavrovo and its National Park on the way. Visit the monasteries of St. Jovan Bigorski and Rajcica and admire the stalactites and stalagmites at Sharko Cave. Enjoy a traditional Macedonian lunch.

This tour is the best way to feel the atmosphere and explore the city of Skopje. You will be guided by a highly educated English speaking guide who will do his best to share with you all the knowledge and show you Skopje from the inside. You will also visit one of the natural wonders of North Macedonia-Matka canyon. The experience will be transformed into an adventure with a boat trip in the canyon and a visit of a cave.

Explore the Millennium Cross and Matka Canyon on this half-day tour from Skopje. Travel from the historic Skopje Fortress to Vodno Mountain with a guide, then take the cable car to the Millennium Cross — widely considered among Skopje top attractions. Explore the village of Gorno Nerezi and admire beautiful Byzantine frescoes in the Church of St Panteleimon. Head deep into the Matka Canyon — home to ancient caves and medieval monasteries — then travel in comfort to Porta Macedonia.

If you enjoy being in nature, if you want to know and see more than the usual, if you want an experience beyond what every tourist does in Skopje, then go for our Canyon Matka tour and have a day to remember! Just sit and relax by the lake with a spectacular view on the cliffs in front of you, go on a boat tour to admire the tranquility of the canyon and visit the Vrelo Cave, enjoy a nice meal on the terass of the restaurant over the lake, rent a kayak and try your kayaking skills or simply explore the beautiful nature on the trails around! During this  half-day spent in nature you will feel as been somewhere far from the city but not a dozen kilometers away from it! The canyon Matka, one of the most popular outdoors destinations in the surrounding of Skopje, authentic nature, presented by the many endemic species of plants, animals and butterflies will make you want to come again!

Experience Macedonia’s rich culture and spectacular nature on this all-day excursion. After a convenient hotel pickup, visit beautiful Matka Canyon and travel in a small boat to Vrelo, one of the deepest underwater caves in the world. Check out the historic St. Andrej monastery, enjoy a delicious optional lunch, marvel at the Painted Mosque, and stop by an Ottoman-era Teke.

Spend a day visiting surroundings of Skopje! This tour is a perfect combination if you like nature combined with culture. Morning visit to Matka canyon and unforgettable boat ride to the entrance of cave Vrelo, one of the deepest underwater caves in Europe. Afternoon drive to Vodno mountain with visit to St Panteleimon monastery and with cable car to the top of the mountain and Millennium cross.

Explore some of Skopje's must see locations on this half-day tour. This tour is ideal for those who are limited with time but would still like to explore Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia and visit some of the best places around. Starting the tour at the Skopje Fortress then traveling to Vodno Mountain and taking cable car to reach the 66 metres high Millennial Cross is an ideal way to explore the natures of North Macedonia as well as learn more about the history behind it while enjoying the astonishing sightseeing. Later on heading down to Matka Canyon makes the tour even more remarkable as Canyon Matka is a truly a top attraction. On this tour, the travelers will enjoy their own private transport and a local English guide.

This is a creative, educational, entertaining, interactive VR Tour with online quizzes and discussions to spice up the virtual exploration of Macedonia's most notable landmarks. The panoramic 360-degree photos offer an authentic experience in exploring both exteriors and interiors, accompanied with an enjoyable fun-fact oriented narrative that enhances the participant's immersion during the visits to the locations. It's an excellent way to get to know the country before you actually travel there! Enjoy it.

A paramotor is a motorized paraglider that enables a pilot and passenger to climb in altitude and stay airborn for as long as they want. Enjoy an unforgettable aerial view as you soar above Skopje at a comfortable speed. Your pilot will tailor the flight to your sense of adventure ,whether it be a smooth panoramic flight over Skopje or an exhilerating acrobatic flight.

This is a concentrated tour of the major monuments of Kosovo, giving visitors a full picture of what this new country has on offer.

This tour starts by picking up the guests from the hotel, and transport to Staro selo which is a 1 hour ride from Skopje. We start from the village of Staro Selo and we ride on the wide dirt road surrounded by beech forest. After climbing around 700 meters above sea level, and passing 10 kilometers, we reach Mountain Hut, near to the Ljuboten peak (2498m). On this place we make lunch break, and we enjoy in the beautiful surrounding of Shara mountain. After the brake, we continue to ride about 7 kilometers up, reaching the highest altitude on this ride, 2010 meters above sea level. On this place we make a break to enjoy beautiful view . From this point we descend to our starting place.

Are you the type of person that wants to get away from the crowdedness and chaos of city life even for just one day? If your answer to this is YES, then this tour is for YOU! Spend a day visiting the rural surroundings of Skopje! Combine the beauty of a half day rural experience with a delightful home hosted meal at a local family's rural house.

We will visit the St. Bigorski Monastery, a calm beautiful place where we can enjoy and even talk with some of the monks. We will explore the surrounding nature and the nearby waterfall. After a good walk, we will go to lunch in the village of Janche, where a traditional meal will be prepared just for us. Enjoy!

Going on this trip will be a real escape from everyday life. We will feel the nature in Mavrovo National Park and visit the most spiritual place in the country, St. John Monastery Bigorski. We will visit two old villages situated in Bistra mountain to feel the rural life in this part of Macedonia. Enjoy!

There is no doubt that Ohrid is a tourist treasure trove just waiting to be discovered. Its natural beauty. With this tour you will see the oldest Lake in Europe,Beautiful churches and monasteries from 8th century.

The eastern part of Macedonia abounds with exceptional natural beauties, and beautiful old churches and monasteries. We will visit two monasteries, not far from Strumica, the monastery St. Leontius in Vodocha, and the Monastery in Veljusa, dedicated to the Holy Mother of God Eleusa. One of the masterpieces of nature, that we will explore, is the Kolesino waterfall. You will fall in love with this beautiful little place, nature carved in the hills of the Belasica mountain, not that far from the Kolesino village.

Explore Skopje's brutalist architecture on bikes. Some very concrete masterpieces arised from the ashes of Skopje's 1963 earthquake: a post office, a university campus, a railway line on columns, a sky bridged dormitory. Let me guide you around with the story of urban utopia that connects it all. I'm Eva, a city walker and a member of the brutalism appreciation society. I biked my way through Skopje till I got hold of my degree in architecture, so I'm good to show you around. We will have a coffee sitting in the concrete furniture of the dormitory terrace, send postcards from the burnt post office, wave at trains departing above city level and we will not take classes at the university campus. I provide the bikes, you provide the curiosity.

Words are not sufficient to describe Matka Canyon. It harbours rare species, beautiful landscapes, caves, historic technology and outdoor activity centre. At only 15 km distance, Matka Canyon is the most popular nature place to visit near Skopje. The incredible water and landscapes are a must see. You can hike, canoe, kayak, visit a cave, rock climb, eat in a restaurant or just enjoy the view. It is also the first accumulation dam in Macedonia, with a power plant built in 1938. To visit Matka Canyon on a bicycle is even a greater adventure, taking you through a rural part of Skopje, passing villages, parks and crossing the Treska River over suspended bridges. It is a beautiful adventure for any season.

We start this tour with a pick up you from your accommodation in Skopje at 08.00. Arrive at Krushevo about 11.00. After that, meeting with our guide and will you get: Bicycle ready for semi-professional trails Equipment (helmet, spare tire, pump) Possibility to track our mobile phone tracks without internet connection Tracker along the entire path and footage from your tour Bike tour in Krushevo take about 3-5 hours, mostly depend of your conditions After the bike tour, we will have a city tour of Krushevo, lunch in restaurant and after that start our return trip to Skopje. Drop off to your accommodation in Skopje

Some days the city can be a bit too overwhelming for all of us. And we believe that everyone deserves a day or two away from it all! With this tour you will spend two days of your stay in Macedonia visiting the rural part of the country, with its untouched nature and scenic mountains, all located within just an hour drive from Skopje.

On this E-bike tour, you will have opportunity to explore Skopje city area in a different and fun way riding e-bike. You gonna visit some of the most interested touristic attraction in the city like: The Statue of Alexander the Great, Gate Macedonia, Stone Bridge and lots of new monuments, statues and buildings from the project “Skopje 2014th”. From the Main Square we go on the other side of the river Vardar in the old part of the town, know as “Skopska Charshija”. In this area we are visiting some of the most significant buildings form the Ottoman period, like Daut Pasin Amam, Kapan An, Chifte Hammam, Kurshumli An, and Mustafa Pasha Mosque. Than we are visiting Skopje Fortress Kale, which offers magnificent view of the city. From the fortress we go to the City Park, visiting the National Arena and riding through the Park. After this ride, we return to the starting point.

In this tour, we will discover a few of the most beautiful natural places in North Macedonia, and a very special monastery, that will leave an impression on you. It includes a short walk to a beautiful waterfall and enjoying the surrounding nature.

Tour starts from VIP Arena Sports Center Boris Trajkovski, then we ride through few suburbs of Skopje reaching the point where River Treska is merging with River Vardar known as Sastav. From here we ride through Park in Saraj wich was very famous weekend destination in 1980s. From Saraj we ride to village Krushopek and Shisevo. When we reach village of Shisevo we ride near River Treska on the beautiful single track that ends near to Matka Power Plant - first power plant built in Macedonia which is still in use. On Matka Canyon there are lots of additional activities such as: boat trip to Cave Vrelo (one of the deepest underwater caves in the world), kayaking, hiking to the Saint Nikola Shishevski Monastery from XIV century and rock climbing. Also, there is option for lunch in local restaurant near Matka.

Prespa lake and numerous villages in the region are perfect spot if you would like to spend two days of your stay in Macedonia, enjoying the rural experience, untouched nature and rich culture.