Pelister – the highest peak of Baba Mountain, and with its 2,601 m above sea level, is the third highest mountain peak in Macedonia. Often the name of the top Pelister is used as a name for Baba Mountain itself and a synonym for the city of Bitola. Pelister was also declared a national park in 1948, it has a total area of 17,150 hectares and covers the top of Pelister and stretches on the slopes of Baba Mountain. The flora of Pelister is very diverse, hence its specific botanical significance. 88 tree species grow here, which represents 29% of the total dendroflora of Macedonia. In the vegetation of NP Pelister there are 21 plant communities, of which 8 are forest and 13 grass communities. Of the forest tree species, the most valuable is the molika – an autochthonous species of pentagonal pine with tertiary age that grows only in a few mountains on the Balkan Peninsula. The height range of the Pelister molika is from 600 to over 2200 meters.
Pelister Eyes are glacial lakes on Pelister. They are two in number and are also called Big and Small Lake. The Big Lake is located at an altitude of 2,218 m, is 233 m long and 162 m wide. The small lake is located at an altitude of 2,180 m, is 79 m long and 162 m wide. The big one is 14.5 m deep and the small one is 2.6 m. Right next to the Big Lake there is a mountain lodge with a capacity of 50-100 beds and beautiful terrains for hiking, mountaineering, mountain biking and sports. The lakes can be reached from two sides along two well-marked hiking trails. One path leads from the village of Nizhepole from the locality of Lak Potok (barracks) or the ski lift through the area of Debel Rid, and the other, which can be traveled by jeeps and off-road vehicles, starts from the hotel “Molika” and through the locality Jorgov Kamen, passing behind the Small Lake ends at the mountain lodge next to the Big Lake. A small marked hiking trail leads to the Little Lake, which leads from the mountain lodge on the Big Lake (1 to 1.5 hours) to the highest peak of the whole mountain – Pelister 2601 meters high. There is also a small endemic species of fish living in the Great Lake. In summer, many visitors and mountaineers often bathe in the cold waters of both lakes. The only point from which you can see the two lakes is as soon as you climb the elevation or ridge above the mountain lodge on the Big Lake on the path that leads to the top Pelister and the Small Lake.
Among the people there is the following legend (legend) how these two glacial lakes known as Pelister or Mountain Eyes came into being. In ancient times in the past, on the mountain Baba under Pelister lived brother Jorgo and sister Flora who had their own flock of sheep which they happily grazed all over the mountain. One day the brother got lost, after which the sister started an unsuccessful search after which she started crying incessantly around the clock for her lost brother. Crying incessantly, tears flowed into the two recesses in which these lakes formed. Exhausted by grief, the sister, before she died, when she saw the beautiful lakes that had formed, spoke to them if they ever saw her brother to wash and drink from their waters so that she might have mercy on him.
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