the year of 1537, where there’s also data about the number of monks living in it, and the amount of money they had to pay to the Sultan as tax (paid in akchas, Ottoman currency).

According to the stories, the monastery was built by the Serbian king Milutin, at the end of the 13th century. It was torn down and rebuilt multiple times. The monastery complex consists of the Holy water source and three lodges:

Holy water:

We lost our guide

Our trail goes along the monastery, i.e. both of our trails. After losing the sight of our guide, (as a matter of fact, we didn’t even know who our guide was), we decided to simply go along and follow the crowd.

After we had walked a quite bit of our trail (convincedChristmas chopping

Arden Cogar Jr. can chop down a 12-inch-diameter tree in 13 seconds. A lawyer by day, Cogar spends his weekends traveling to lumberjack competitions from his Hamlin, W.Va., home. A member of the U.S. National Lumberjack Team, Cogar has earned 32 world championships in wood-chopping and cross-cut sawing. He's a regular in ESPN's Great Outdoor Games.

"My dad and his dad were loggers, so I grew up doing this," Cogar says. "To me, it's second nature."

To most Chicago-area dwellers, though, wielding sharp saws and axes is not second nature. But, once a year, you can be a lumberjack for a day at one of the area's Christmas tree farms that allow customers to do their own tree-chopping. Most of the farms listed here offer saws, but bring your