Impros Gorge

... pace as long as you were done and and at the village at the end to be picked up at the boat. The Samaria Gorge is a National Park of Greece.  It was created by a small river running between the White Mountains and Mt. Volakias.  The most famous ...

... the ferry. It was like some freak parade of to tight short shorts, skinny german hikers (this area of Crete has the largest gorge in all of Europe, Samaria Gorge. Look it up) with their telescopic hiking poles and state of the art gortex floppy hats, ...

It was an early morning to the bus statsion to catch psycho bus tp Omolos to commence the 18 Km trek through the Samaria Gorge.  The bus driver horned any and all cars in our direction in order pass them.  At one point, we overtook another bus ...

... in the bar. Shocked, the only thing we could do was laugh. What are the chances that a small town like Rethymno, Crete, Greece, would have Jethro Tull on their play list in 2010? Happy Carnival! Today is basically the biggest party of the year in ...

... come to Crete. My parents spent a day in Santorini and absolutely loved it.  I think if they were to come back to Greece again they would definitley spend more time there. That about sums up our time on Crete.  My parents left for Vienna ...

... (the park and gorge are open only from the beginning of May to the end of October because in winter, high water makes the gorge dangerous and impassable) and then onto the very narrow passage near the end of the gorge called the "Iron Gates". Not ...

... closes for the season in mid October. Instead of taking our chances on the last day in Crete, we went to the Imbros gorge instead. It's nearby, and almost as breathtaking.    There are not always signs at intersections, so we passed through ...

... a hotel and just relax for the evening before we tackled the hike. Let me tell you with all certainty that we are now in backwoods Greece. It took hours to wind through the hills to the Gorge and there was a choice of 3 very small hotels in the area, ...