Top Skopje Outdoor Activities

Visiting Nis from Skopje can be tricky without hiring a car. On this full-day tour, travel from your Skopje hotel in a private transfer and admire the scenic views on the drive. Accompanied by a guide, visit Medijana and spend time among the Roman ruins. Take time to stroll around Nis and stop by many of the city’s historical highlights.

Visiting Kosovo’s main cities of Pristina and Prizen from Macedonia can be tricky unless you hire a car. On this full-day tour, travel comfortably by air-conditioned minivan from your Skopje accommodation and meet your guide in Pristina. Visit landmarks like the Monastery of Gracanica, the Kosovo National Library, the Open Air Archaeological Park, Carshi Mosque, Gazimestan Tower, and more. Head to Prizen and take a walking tour of the Ottoman-era Old Town.

Discover the treasures of Skopje, Mavrovo, and Ohrid with your own private guide on this day-long tour. Visits to the National Park Mavrovo, Monastery St. Jovan Bigorski, and Lake Ohrid are all included, along with commentary about Macedonia's history and sights from your guide. Explore the winding streets of Ohrid city during a walking tour around its churches, theaters, and markets, and then finish the day with a drop-off at your Skopje hotel.

KARTAL winery has been founded as a result of family tradition as well as deep respect for wine and grapevine. Our mission is to continue the bond between nature and mankind through nectar from Gods. Our winery, which is located in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, has a small capacity of 100.000 liters per year, the most contemporary wine processing and riping equipment as well as carefully chosen grapes from our vineyards enable very high quality and pleasure with every drop of wine. Mergence of tradition and science is an ideal combination which our enologists have turned into perfection. These excellently balanced wines, their sort characteristics, fruit nuances and the love devoted deserve your attention. Every single bottle that has been caressed by our staff thousand times has witnessed changes in mood, reaching frontiers of the mind, years of hard work, passing of seasons and patient but steady fulfillment of the ultimate goal.

Skopje Airport arrivalsClients will be met at arrival hall with a personalized sign with they names. We provide full luggage assistance. Clients will have full assistance until they reach the hotel reception desk.ORSkopje Airport departuresClients will be met in the hotel reception area at a prearranged time. Upon the arrival at the airport, the clients will be dropped off at front terminal building.

Explore Macedonia’s ancient history and get out of the city on this full-day tour. Depart from your hotel and travel in a private vehicle to Kokina, the ruins of an ancient observatory. Continue on to Osogovo Monastery and learn about the history from your guide. Pause for a local lunch before heading back to Skopje.

Break up your travel from Skopje to Tirana with a half-day tour of Ohrid. Travel comfortably in an air-conditioned vehicle from your Skopje hotel to Lake Ohrid. With a guide, explore the harbor area and the many churches that dot the town, including St. Sophia, St. Clement’s Church of the Holy Mother of God Most Glorious, and St. Pantelejmon. After your tour, continue on to your Tirana hotel.

Enjoy a hassle-free departure from Macedonia with this private transfer service. Meet your personal chauffeur at your Skopje hotel and relax on the journey to Skopje ‘Alexander the Great’ Airport (SKP) when your vacation comes to an end. Skip the stress of finding a taxi or shuttle service when you book and pay in advance. Private vehicles can accommodate up to seven passengers.

The driver/guide will pick you up from the hotel or any location of your preference in Skopje. This full day tour will start with a visit to a beautiful medieval monastery in Grachanica (90 km, approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes from Skopje), rebuilt in 1321 on the foundations of an Orthodox church from the 6th century. Then, we drive to Kosovo’s capital Prishtina (20 minutes from Grachanica). We will be able to visit the 26m high clock tower and the National Library. In the Independent House of Kosovo we will find out the story of the former president Ibrahim Rugova in the campaign for independence from Serbia, and see the Newborn Monument from 2008, when Kosovo declared its independence. Sultan Mehmet Fatih Mosque and Jashar Pasha Mosque are two beautiful Ottoman mosques and famous local attractions. Somewhere on the way, we will have lunch. In the end, we drive back to Skopje and will drop you off in any location of your preference in Skopje.

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!

If you simply want to see the best and most important of Skopje, starting with canyon Matka in the morning and then the highlights of Old&New Skopje, while also tasting delicious local bites along a glass of excellent rakija and local beer – then this is your tour! This tour is a bundle of our two most popular half-day tours, the Half Day Tour from Skopje to Matka Canyon and the Food by Foot Skopje City Tour. The first part of the tour will take you to 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 and animals. The second part is a whirlwind tour of Skopje’s food, drink and history scene. It is more than just a food tour, it is a chance to get to know the people, the lifestyle, the history, the ups and downs of the city, a chance to learn about the Macedonian authentic food you are eating, the drink in your hand and the city around you!

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.

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.

Our sightseeing transfers will enable you enjoy in the marvelous landscapes, driving through mountains and valleys, by rivers and lakes. It will show you how architecture and life differ from village to village, from town to town! The sightseeing transfers are pleasant, touring drives that give you the opportunity of exploring and visiting beautiful sites in Macedonia that otherwise would have been missed out. Our Sightseeing transfer from Skopje to Ohrid via National Park Mavrovo is an excellent chance to see one of the most beautiful mosques, the Painted Mosque in Tetovo, then enjoy driving through the National Park Mavrovo, visit St. Jovan Bigorski Monastery with its exceptional wooden iconostasis, you will have an option for a stop for local, tasty lunch at the picturesque village Jance, you will be driven along Debar and Globocica Lakes and along the purest river Radika. Just before arriving to Ohrid, you will pass through the second biggest town on Ohrid Lake, Struga.

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.

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.

Travel from the capital city of Skopje to Mavrovo National Park, the largest of Macedonia’s three national parks. See the partially-submerged St. Nicholas Church (which was flooded to create artificial Mavrovo Lake) Sarkova Dupka Cave, and the Monastery of Saint Jovan Bigorski. You’ll also have time to explore and enjoy a meal in the tiny village of Jance.

In this tour, we will be able to see a few of the most interesting sites in the Skopje surrounding. We will visit the Millenium Cross and admire the view of the whole Skopje plain. We will visit the nearby village of Gorno Nerezi to see the beautiful Church of St. Panteleimon, situated in a Monastery complex. And the highlight of the tour will be the Matka Canyon. We will explore this beautiful place on foot, or take a boat ride to the Vrelo Cave. In the end, we will get back into our comfortable vehicle and drive back to Skopje.

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.

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.

Canyon Matka is the most beautiful place in Skopje and is a must-see if you are visiting Skopje and North Macedonia. Here you can see unique nature, enjoy mountain views, participate in an original boat tour and visit a cave.

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.

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!

Visit the capitals of Albania and Kosovo, admire the UNESCO world heritage site of Ohrid and walk through the narrowed stone streets of UNESCO-city Berat on this 4-day tour of Albania, Kosovo and N. Macedonia from Skopje. This tour is the best way to visit the most important sites in Albania, Kosovo and N. Macedonia in just four days!