North Macedonia is landlocked and mountainous, and its two anchors are very different: Skopje, a capital rebuilt after the 1963 earthquake and heavily reworked again in the 2010s, and Ohrid, a lakeside town with Byzantine churches and one of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes.
The guides on this page cover North Macedonia as a whole. Ohrid runs a summer season around swimming and boat trips, while Skopje works year-round with hot summers and cold winters. Distances are short but mountain roads slow things down. The country is outside the EU and Schengen, so border crossings toward Greece and Serbia can be slow in peak travel months.