Bay of Bones and Museum on the Water.

On the way back to the city of Ohrid from Sveti Naum Monastery, our taxi driver stopped at a second tourist attraction -- a palafitte -- which Susan and I would soon find out is a settlement built on stilted platforms or pile dwellings typically over water. 

 Sitting in the Bay of Bones, this palafitte is a reconstruction of an actual settlement that sat in this very spot 3,000 years ago.



 Even the interior of the little houses have been reconstructed with authentic detail.

   

Really, this was a stop for the view; the museum {fittingly called "Museum on the Water"} offered us little but shelter from the rain, an up close look at a few ancient artifacts from the found on site, and an extremely ESL subtitled video on underwater diving in Lake Ohrid.

As we stood laughing at the video, the sun emerged {yes!} allowing us to walk around the village, admire the aquamarine shades of the lake, and climb up to the fortress which provides an elevated and stunning view of the area.

   

Thanks for sending the sunshine, rainy day; please, please keep it up!