Caldera Palace

... slashes across vertical surfaces.   Vertical is the word that comes to mind thinking back on Santorini. The section of the caldera that is Santorini rises straight up from the water to heights of 1000 feet. The towns of Thera and Oia perch on ...

... to the new crater emerging from the depths, to the Greek blue-domed churches and white buildings trickling into the caldera down steep stairways.  Newer buildings were being constructed with cement, but the finishing touches of paint and contoured ...

... have the guide take our photo in our flash emergency warm gear, walk back to bury our lunch garbage, then climb out of the caldera on a particularly steep path where visitors have left their names. The walk, or climb, back down goes a lot easier, as we ...

... it, though invasions by the mainland Greek Mycenaeans couldn't have helped.  Later, on Santorini, we would see the ancient caldera: yes, that was a huge eruption. The final pieces of the puzzle were the frescoes, taken from the Knossos Palace, ...

... you a more intense peek. The area around the caldera had sulphur deposits, bubbling and hissing steam vents, and finally, the caldera itself, a huge crater of boiling mud. We took a lunch break and then headed to Borobudur - the most famous tourist ...

... had a glass of Santorini wine and sandwiches in a restaurant right on the edge of the cliff with a view of the entire caldera.  Fantastic!  Then we strolled around town.  They say the streets of Santorini are lined with gold because of all ...

... like dinner as well... · Walk along the roads (or run ) that run along the edge of the cliffs overlooking the Caldera on Santorini · Samaria Gorge on Crete · Visit the Monastery in Chora and The Cave of the Apocalypse on Patmos · Wander ...

... of the island and caused the tidal wave that destroyed the Knossos Palace on the island of Crete some distance away. The resulting caldera of Santorini was later split by more seismic activity and is now a crescent shape mound of reddish-black rock with ...

... the volcano. Mt Batur is an interesting series of volcanic vents surrounded by a lovely lake, scorched earth and a suspiciously caldera-looking ring of ruggedly sheer mountains. However it was a disappointment on the whole as we were expecting to visit ...

... speculated that it was responsible for the decline of the entire civilization. Sucky, but pretty to look at. The walls of the caldera are sheer layered cliffs, several hundred meters high, red and black and yellow and brown and all in between. But we ...

... own.  We were to start at the base of the volcano adjacent to Arenal and climb to the top where there was a huge caldera full of water.  Again, in order to save some dinero in this expensive town, we decided to walk the entire thing ourselves ...

... to the mainland. I opt to take a tour of Oia (pronounced "ee-ah"), the most Northern village on the island. Santorini is a caldera which simply means so much magma was spewed all over the Aegean that there was nothing to replace it, so what was left of ...

... 2: SANTORINI  PARADISE!! It took a while to get here but it was SO worth it. Our hotel, Hotel Kavalari , overlooks the caldera of the volcanic eruption that occurred. We had the day free to explore Santorini so we took a bus over to Camari Beach ...

... large volcano in its center. To the right of the volcano there was a pristine blue lake filling up part of the caldera's floor with a huge mountain -- bigger than the central volcano -- towering above the lake. The overall view was just breathtaking. ...

... park. A description of the whole area would be something like this: imagine a frying pan of 128 kilometer in circumference (the name is a caldera) and right in the middle of this frying pan are five volcanoes, of one is very active, the Naka-dake. It is ...

... can be deceptive, and these men and their ponies provide tourists with an easier way to get to Bromo as you can ride across the caldera. It is a very strange scene and reminded us of the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies.  We climbed up to the edge of ...

... Once we were finished we got back into the minivan for the 2 and a half hour drive to the Dieng Plateau. Dieng lies in a volcanic caldera 2093m above sea level so it was certainly a lot cooler than in Jogja. The main reason we had decided to come here was ...

... Bali to Kintamani. Kintamani (costing 15,000 entry for four people and easily worth it!) is on the rim of Lake Batur caldera and proivdes a spectacular view of Mount Batur Volcano (still active), Lake Batur, and Mount Abang. It really was a beautiful ...

... which gave us transport to Bromo, a bed n breakfast, a sunrise 4WD tour of Bromo, a hike up to the rim of the caldera, and finally, public transport (ferry and bus) to Denpasar in Bali. All this was purchased for 28 fine english pounds - what a bargain, ...

... a fascinating sight. About a two hour train ride away from Beppu is the city of Aso. Aso is situated in the biggest caldera (collapsed volcano crater) in the world. It has a 110 km circumference!!! One of the active peaks continually emits SO2 gas, ...