Laid-back beaches and lush green landscape brought us to the Gulf of Corinth to a little charming town of Nafpaktos. The town was an important Athenian naval station in the Peloponnesian war. Town changed hands many times during the Crusades and the Ottoman–Venetian Wars. It was under...
A jewel of an island in the Ionian Sea, Lefkada remains surprisingly unaffected by tourism. It is famous for its dense forests and some world-famous beaches. It was not easy to drive through the island, we really do not recommend it with the big truck. But the island is very interesting...
We drove a 1600 meters long tunnel from Preveza to reach a narrow causeway, making Lefkada one of the few Greek islands that you can drive to ( 🛣 – 7,50 EUR). Lefkada was originally a peninsula, not a true island. Corinthian colonizers cut a canal through the narrow isthmus that...
Preveza town is located at the mouth of Amvrakikos Gulf in Western Greece. The town was built on the site of ancient Vereniki town, which was founded by Pyrrhus, the Greek King of Epirus in 290 BC. Preveza was built during the late 11th century after ancient Nikopolis town was deserted...
The word Nekromanteion means “Oracle of the Dead”, and the faithful came here to talk with their dead ancestors. Per ancient sources, the site was in use from at least the 8th century BC, and the extant walls and labyrinth date from the late 4th century BC. The Romans burned...
The Acheron River flows from Mount Souli Epirus and reaches the Ionian Sea at Ammoudia Beach. In addition to its natural beauty, the Acheron is known worldwide for its mythological content. In ancient Greek mythology, Acheron (also called the Styx) was the river the dead were ferried...
It was not easy to find any parking place in the downtown Parga, but we made deal with the big spacious parking, officially they do charge 1 EUR per hour, but we got it for 12 EUR from 15:00 till the 10:00 next day. Parga is a picture-perfect resort town located in northwestern Greece on...
Ioannina is set on a plateau on the western side of lovely lake Pamvotis, facing the gray limestone mass of Mount Mitsikéli. Ioannina was first mentioned in ecclesiastical registers of the 9th and 10th centuries as an important Byzantine city. At the beginning of the 13th century, it was...
The Vikos Gorge is located in the Pindus Mountains in north-western Greece. It lies on the southern slopes of Mount Tymphe. The Voïdomatis River, a tributary of the Aoös, carved the 12km-long, 900m-deep Vikos Gorge over millions of years. The cliffs begin near Vitsa and run north to near...
We stopped in the village Kalpaki and from there we explored the Zagori region in the Pindus mountains in northwestern Greece. The whole region has beautiful nature protected in two National Parks with imposing snow-capped Mt Tymphe and the famous Aoos and Vikos Gorge. There are 46 tiny...