23-10-2016
Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, lived in Calcutta, India, was a Catholic nun and the sacred person of the Catholic world. She was born in Skopje, in a house located where Macedonia Square and the statue of Alexander the Great in Skopje are, on 26 of August 1910 under the name Agneza Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She grew up in a wealthy Catholic family with Albanian background. At the age of nine her father died suddenly and at the age of 12, she decided to live as a nun. Since that moment she spent the entire life helping the poor in different parts of the world. In 1979 she got the Nobel Peace Prize. We Indians respect and love Mother Teresa.
Skopje is the capital of the Republic of Macedonia, the City that lies in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula, at the crossroad of important communications, a city with a 2000 years old tradition. Skopje is a modern city with population of almost one million and presents Macedonia’s major political, economic, educational and cultural center. Skopje also is a very attractive tourist destination with its fortress, cultural and historical monuments, archaeological sites, sport halls, caves in the canyon of the River Treska and Lake Matka and a health spa in the eastern part of the city.
SKOPJE – TO SOFIA – 270 km 5 hrs. driving, 24-10-2016 we reached Sofia, capital of Bulgaria at late evening.