Hiking in Pelister

I was just on Pelister mountain, just outside Bitola, for a hiking trip. We made it up to a really spectacular mountain lake above the treeline.

(The view with the lake behind us - those streams are from a spring fed by the lake.)

(Mountain flowers near the lake)

(A view from a rest stop)

(Crystal clear and ice cold mountain lake)

(The Villa Dihovo, a renovated village house that is now an eco-tourism type B&B)