Skopje; The Crazy Capital of North Macedonia

Skopje is the capital of North Macedonia and has a reputation because of its giant statues, which count in hundreds if not thousands. I visited Skopje for 3 days, and here is the Skopje Travel Vlog.
I explore the old and new Skopje as well as all the fun things to do in Skopje as well as around the city.
Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome
00:58 Skopje Airport & Arrival
02:24 Arriving in the city centre
02:55 Luxury Skopje Apartments
03:32 Vodno Mountain
04:47 Breakfasts in Skopje
05:08 The Old Bazaar of Skopje
07:06 The Hammam
07:24 The Caravanserai
09:21 Park Ibni Pajko
10:30 The Old Stone Bridge of Skopje
11:36 Mustafa Pasha Mosque
13:11 Information about Skopje
13:51 Victory Arch
14:51 Macedonia Square
17:54 Mother Teresa House
18:50 My favourite status of Skopje
19:14 Matka Canyon
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[@lifeexpanded]

This is one of the most in depth videos I've seen about Skopje. Thank you so much! Making me excited for an upcoming trip!

[@brownboytravels]

Thank you, have loads of fun and check out the other North Macedonia videos as well, this country try is amazing!

[@bobbymkd457]

Skopje is amazing! ❤️🇲🇰

[@mdnaumanfarooq3218]

Very beautiful and peaceful place.specially airport are very beautiful.beautiful drone footage.good job brother

[@nowheregirl921]

I like the peaceful vibe of the city. Very helpful information!

[@sultanrayder]

Wow 😮 very beautiful ❤️

[@wajeeha3955]

such a beautiful place and THOSE COLORSS

[@cpouk8285]

Nice profile picture lol

[@Nata-Nesa]

MACEDONIA THE BEST 🥰🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@brownboytravels]

😊

[@Nata-Nesa]

@@agate5613 i know- they all wanna be us 🥰😘💋🇲🇰🇲🇰

[@tarannumjammanzai4938]

Beautiful country 👍

[@mashooque11]

Wow, the views look great so as you like always!!! You make it's value to me to be honest!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@mashooque11]

@@brownboytravels I'm into your colors

[@rameshmaggidi2428]

Super 💯

[@nataliahenriquez3559]

Mi familia del corazón ❤️, espero pronto poder verlos.

[@Eizaburo.Meto99]

Nice video man! Thx :))

[@sultanrayder]

Your living a dream life 🧬 Tere mazay hain bhai 👍 Keep it up

[@shermuhammad6160]

Amazing and beautiful videos

[@dejanstankovikj4812]

Thank you for promoting Macedonia

[@igorgjorgiev3585]

While we the Macedonians learn how to adapt and live in the capitalism era ,we forget that the world needs to learn from us how to live in multicultural and multiethnic and multireligious society ,cause we live like that for more than 2000 years ,Macedonia always was and is and will be a cosmopolitan state ,it is the dream and ideology of Alexander the great ,the same thing that the world is trying to achieve nowadays ,we already achieved it and live in it for more than 2000 years ,so we must respect it ,nourish it and show to the world why this country is mentioned many times in the Bible ,and why this little peace of heaven is a unique element of Europe and the Balkans ,it is unique in many aspects ,but our narrow and blinded point of view is preventing us too see it and feel it . . . i just love Macedonia ,and i am honored and proud that i am Macedonian , i was born here and that i live here almost all of my life . . .

[@brownboytravels]

Indeed ❤️

[@mellake7052]

Great video and great summary of a beautiful and tolerant country and welcoming people. Thank you for promoting Macedonia in the positive light it deserves. I so did not want to make my comment political (especially as I appreciate your work) but I couldn't let your comment about Pella slip as it inadvertently leaves a false impression of its history. Pella and the rest of Northern Greece were part of Macedonia prior to the 1912/1913 Balkan Wars and never ever in its history previously part of Greece. Prior to the Balkan Wars and the Treaty of Bucharest which resulted in Macedonia being carved up without consultation with the population, Macedonia was more than twice the size it is today and Greece was less than half its present size. Pella was part of Macedonia. Now it is part of Greece. Not meaning to make your excellent video political but this is an important point which leads to much misunderstanding.

[@mellake7052]

@@brownboytravels I agree, it's best to remain neutral.

[@jovanton5528]

1912/1913 Balkan wars -- the biggest macedonian tragedy. Macedonia is only one country in the world which is bordering with itselves,

[@oliviasalibacauchi]

did you have to book the van to centre skopje?

[@brownboytravels]

No there was one just outside the airport that goes I think every half an hour

[@mayesha2864]

Politicians are spoilers all across the globe... Usually people know how to respect each other..And really ended up watching three video of your vlog my assumption about this place has changed

[@kmayoub1564]

Mashhalha

[@funtoonweb1983]

You know people make fun of Macedonia in my countrys they hate them but i dont hate them i fell bad kina for them for how they hate them 😞😞😞😞

[@brownboytravels]

Hatred is no way to live and people in N Macedonia are really nice and friendly ❤️

[@allong4709]

Great how different cultures can live together. Wish they would get together to clean up the air. What an embarrassment to be the most polluted city in Europe.

[@user-md2jd7rz9h]

Koj north be kurton

[@mucimapo7798]

I live here lol

[@cpouk8285]

Nice Video mate. as a UK citizen if I travel from kosovo to Skopje by road what documents do I need ? I am double jabbed in the UK also when I leave macedona by air do i need to show any documents at macedonia airport?

[@cpouk8285]

@@brownboytravels thank you so much for your kind help, I am flying to serbia next month, i need pcr for that as they do not recognize nhs vaccination letter, than by road to Montenegro than Albani, than kosovo and than finaly to Skopje than fly back

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

@@cpouk8285 ~ ~ fly ~ ~ fly ~ in ~ Tunguzia.

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

@@cpouk8285.................... jedi pihtije . u Vranje.

[@georgestojkovski1026]

Skopje Macedonian City of statues and wonderful people ❤️ the best Macedonia Sity in the Balkan I love my city unfortunately I live in Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

[@brownboytravels]

Skopje is definitely quite an entertainer, I really enjoyed it. Don’t forget to check out my other North Macedonia videos as a little reminder of home 😊

[@liranrok1]

Looks clean, quiet, and boring lol

[@gocestavreski2589]

It's peaceful video city is in terrible chaos of cars swarming the city

[@99Boiko]

Skopje is the capital of all of Macedonia - not just its "north".

[@99Boiko]

​ @BrownBoyTravels I'm sorry too, but you don't know the facts. So I will educate you. 1. "North Macedonia" is the official name of nothing. There is something called a constitutional name, but that happens to be "Republic of North Macedonia". Likewise the country where I live is called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 2. Short names (such as in this case: Great Britain, Britain, United Kingdom, UK or England for shorthand) do not have a legal personality, and nobody has any obligation to go around touting the constitutional name of the country (or in your case, a selected part of it). 3. Out of approximately 200 independently functioning polities in this world, Macedonia's case is sui generis even with regards how the country will identify. The constitutional name was changed in accordance with the Prespa Agreement which I am certain you have no knowledge about. In summary, the language remains Macedonian, the nationality remains Macedonian, the demonym remains Macedonian, and the ethnicity of the two-third majority remains Macedonian. Even the football governing body remains Фудбалска Федерација на Македонија (Football League of Macedonia). The nation is ONLY legally required to use the constitutional name on matters which are STATE-FUNDED. Anything else, be that the nation in everyday life or high profile publication, continues to use "Macedonia" unsparingly. Look no further than the BBC/ABC equivalent "Македонска радио-телевизија" (Macedonian radio-television) which retains its name and logo. Western vloggers do not get sanctioned for sidestepping the constitutional name. This has already been publicly tested: Euronews ran an English report this year on Greece having objected to Macedonian TV displaying 'MKD' in the score box for the full matches, to which Macedonia replied by telling them that the football federation does not receive state funding and is welcome to call itself whatever it likes. 4. You are right about one thing: not having an affinity to Greece, because if you did, you would have refrained even from saying "North Macedonia". To the Greek people, even that is unacceptable. However there are three parties in this caper, and you are indeed covertly affiliated to group three and that is the West - because "North Macedonia" is a stellar example of Western punditocracy. The name was changed unlawfully, and was so in order to allow NATO and the EU - on their own terms - to conquer Macedonia. A referendum was held in 2018. It had been brokered by the EU's enlargement camp, and the question did not read "Do you wish to be called North Macedonia?". Had this been the case, you wouldn't have stood a chance of achieving a majority. Instead, a DOUBLE-LOADED question was asked, and that question: "Are you in favour of European Union and NATO membership by accepting the agreement between the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Greece?" - which is a bit like saying "do you still smack your children?" - you cannot answer yes or no without tacitly admitting that you have hit your kids even if you haven't done. Here one could not say yes or no without implying that he wanted Macedonia to join the Western organisations. For example, if you wanted one but not the other, there is no way to impart this. 5. Moving on from Point 4, the Macedonian nation - supported by the diaspora in the US, Canada and Australia all of whom arranged mass protests in 2018 and have voting rights - formed a campaign called "Ne glasam" (I don't vote). And THAT was the real winner - because boycotting IS a form of voting, and when you present a nation with a single loaded question, never mind double loaded, they are justified in voting with their feet. 90% voted for the change with a turnout of about 37%. The constitution expressly stated that if turnout is less than 50%, then no changes will be made. So the nation called the West's bluff and refused to vote: this way they succeeded in telling the world NO they don't want the name changed, NO they don't want to join NATO, and NO they don't want to join the EU. Then right on cue, EU Foreign Affairs Policy chief Federica Mogherini and her partners in the Zoran Zaev regime of Macedonia added a new page to the rule book to accommodate their imperatives. The name was changed followed by the abrasive shoehorning of Macedonia into NATO without a further referendum. So the name was changed unlawfully. 6. It is a myth to claim that this was anything to do with Greece. Greece and Macedonia resolved their naming problems in 1993 (where "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" was used 95% in the same vein as "North Macedonia" is today) admitting Macedonia to the UN; and the movement issue was resolved in 1995 when Greece introduced a visa policy for Macedonians to enter it. What happened in 2018/19 was that Greece had been using their veto powers to block the possibility of the Macedonian regime and its Western handlers from wrenching the Macedonian people into their institutions. When everything failed, the powers that be took the law into their own hands in 2018 and 2019. Now with all the other lunacy taking place, the West trying to abolish males and females and all else that offends the powerful LGBT lobby in the West - and the Macedonians already having imposed Parent 1 and Parent 2 in maternity wards (sorry, "birthing" wards), the nation is ready to explode. As you will learn, you don't hold the tiger by the tail. Just to wrap up, Macedonia without qualifiers is not only used by Macedonians but throughout all of ex-Yugoslavia even in 2021. See the posters of Croatian/Montenegrin, etc. musical artists playing venues in towns such as Stip, Bitola or Skopje - their posters still read "Delcevo, Makedonija" not "Severna" (which means 'northern'). Ditto the news in those countries, and people when discussing the country. So unless you are being paid by the Zaev regime, it's Macedonia where you're concerned. If you don't like it - don't go there.

[@99Boiko]

@@forgetit8651 NEVER WILL ALBANIANS BE A MAJORITY IN MY COUNTRY, AND YOU KNOW WHY??????????????? I'm not really angry I was just kidding with the capitals. No but the reason Albanians won't be a majority in my country is because I am actually from Ukraine and living in Britain. Also, my wife, would you believe, is of Bulgarian origin. So to that end I agree that these are a Slavic people. And where they have disputes with their Bulgarian and Albanian neighbours, I tend not to get involved on anybody's side. So that means I cannot be in denial that the Slavophonic people in that country identify as Macedonian with very few calling themselves Bulgarian or Serb. I know that a century ago that this was different because I've seen extant evidence. If they want to go back to calling themselves Bulgarian or Serb I will respect it. Though with the unlawful name change, the wrongdoer was not Greece. The Greeks if anything merely learned that their power of veto had its limitations. The problem had been the middle body, the supposed "mediator" - the west. They brought upon the calamity that has unnerved the two-third majority in that country. Yeah the Hellenic temple with Slavic writing is 100% false.

[@Kostanovi]

@@99Boiko then what the fuck is the region that i live in? Cause as far as i know my town in Greece is part of the region of western macedonia. What bullshit are you trying to prove? It's just north macedonia, a small part of macedonia and it isn't related at all with the old, the greek macedonia. Those so called "North Macedonians" just happened to have a part of the land, just like Albania and Bulgaria. The difference is they didn't steal any names and didn't take false credits.

[@brownboytravels]

Can we all please calm down? There was no Greece back then and Macedonia was a very different empire back then. Let’s try and live happily now instead of fighting over what used to be 😊 Both Greece and North Macedonia are beautiful countries

[@99Boiko]

@@brownboytravels The country is MACEDONIA sunshine. That's what the majority population call it, and people who go there masturbating their western punditocracy are personae not grata. Get to grips with the controversial circumstances surrounding the change, and moreover that the country is still bound by a naming convention that is unprecedented anywhere else. The nation still has the right and indeed it exercises this right to be known purely as Macedonia. There are only specific circumstances where "North" needs to be added, and international vloggers are outside of that obligation. So if you want to insult the three-quarter majority who don't sell souvenirs with "North" written on the product (the other being quarter being the ethnic Albanian fifth columnists who embrace "North" as their own country), do so from outside the land.

[@JohnSmith-vc4tz]

and gues what brown boy, the people who live in that "greek" macedonia are slavic people, brothers and sisters of the ones in "northern" macedonia. So what do we make out of greek macedonia, ocupied land by the greeks. In regards of alexander the great the greeks can have it, he was gay so he must have been greek

[@brownboytravels]

Well I think what’s best is to focus on now and live happy in harmony than what was. It helps solve so many problems 😊

[@JohnSmith-vc4tz]

@@brownboytravels very true, nevertheless I thought ill give a bit of a trivia that may interest you. By the way, thank you for making such a nice video, brings me back home. Rest assured all Macedonians, from all over the world, appreciate you.

[@brownboytravels]

@@JohnSmith-vc4tz it’s a beautiful country 😊

[@deyvidpavlov2151]

Over a million inhabitants? According to the results of the 2002 census, the City of Skopje itself had 428,988 in its urban area and 506,926 inhabitants within administrative limits that encompass many villages and other settlements. We are still waiting for the 2021 census but it won’t change significantly.

[@coasteyscoasteys4150]

Deyvid That is 20 years ago More people now

[@deyvidpavlov2151]

@@coasteyscoasteys4150 I just checked the data from the 2021 census and for the city of Skopje is 488,103 and 526,502 inhabitants within administrative limits that encompass many villages and other settlements. Which as I said before is not a significant change, it can not doble the citizens in just 20 years, this is not happening anywhere in Europe.

[@alegzandeeer2690]

Gay icon? Didn't Alexander The Great have like three wives?

[@zamanasif5766]

He had a male lover but definitely he isn't a gay icon

[@brownboytravels]

It’s a joke 😊

[@k4imak927]

SKOPJE IS THE COUNTRY NOT THE CITY

[@brownboytravels]

Stop shouting