Gulf News:
Just past the hamlet of Smrdliva Voda - translated roughly as ‘Stinkwater’ - the paved road up Mount Kozuf breaks into a heavily rutted dirt path. Angel Nakov’s 4×4 keeps roaring uphill.
Nakov and his business partners are building the road. Higher up, once it runs out, he turns his vehicle on to an even more primitive path, bouncing all the way. When that too disappears, he turns straight uphill toward Kozuf’s peak and steps on the accelerator.
Finally it becomes too steep, and Nakov jumps out to climb the last few hundred metres. From the peak, 2,160 metres above sea level, almost the entire Republic of Macedonia can be seen to the north.
Looking south, there is the Aegean Sea, the Greek port of Thessaloniki and Mount Olympus on the far horizon. Along the east-west ridge, one can still spot gun placements from World War I when the Salonika Front ran through.
Such is the spectacular view from the summit of what is surely one of the most audacious entrepre-neurial schemes underway in the Republic of Macedonia.
Carry on reading: Giant dream.
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