Lake Ohrid

Deep among the mountains of the western Balkans, Lake Ohrid has endured for millions of years. Springs feed its clear waters, including water that passes underground from higher Lake Prespa, while the Black Drin carries its outflow northward. Long isolation has given the lake an extraordinary variety of life found nowhere else, among it the Ohrid trout. On its shores stand the town of Ohrid and the monastery of Saint Naum, centers of the region's long Christian tradition.