In the late afternoon, we reached a popular valley town Stepantsminda (known as Kazbegi), with the famous hilltop silhouette of Tsminda Sameba Church and the towering snowy cone of Mt Kazbek (5054 m). The main attraction is the the14th-century church sitting above Stepantsminda in 2200 m...
We drove from Trabzon to the Georgian border, roads in Turkey are perfect, but these two days were challenging for us and our truck. On the first day, we left Uzungöl lake in the afternoon and drove in the rain on good roads through Kaçkar Mountains with steep rocky peaks (the highest...
A one-hour drive from Trabzon to the south, in Kaçkars Mountains, you will find a lakeside mosque and forested mountains that recall Switzerland. The “hidden valley” of Uzungöl is not idyllic anymore. The tourist boom of recent years and the growing number of visitors from the Gulf States...
We took a private, well-paved, steep road for 7km to the Mount Olympos cable car’s lower station at 725 m. Tahtalı Dağı, also known as Mount Olympos, is a mountain near Kemer, a seaside resort on the Turkish Riviera in Antalya Province. From it, the start of the Taurus Mountains can...
We spent the whole day in the Olympus National Park, there is located Mount Olympus, the highest peak (2917 m) in Greece. It is part of the Olympus massif near the Gulf of Thérmai of the Aegean Sea. Olympus National Park hosts more than 1700 plant species, some rare and endemic, as well...
We were not sure, how to enter Olympus National Park with our truck, so we did pay a visit to the local office in Litochoro, where we got all the necessary information for our tomorrow’s exploration of the national park and mythic Mount Olympus. This little town stretches up the...
We drove from Volos (🛣️ 10 EUR / Class 3) through Larisa, where we bought some food at Lidl, to the extraordinary rock formations of the Meteora. The rock masses were formed some 60 million years ago, their distinctive and varied shapes sculpted over time by earthquakes, rain, and wind...
We took a ferry from Evia Island to the mainland (🎫 41,70 EUR / 9 m) and drove (🛣️ 9,50 EUR / Class 3) to a dramatic mountain range, collectively known as Mt Pelion. The Pelion Peninsula curves south and east from Volos, cradling the Pagasitikos Gulf within its protective arm. Its higher...
We spent the evening in the small mountainous town in Central Greece which recently became the biggest organized ski resort in the country. In the evening we walked uphill on cobbled streets with small houses to get great panoramic views over the Bell Tower, which sits in the center on a...
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...