After a long and rainy winter, the hiking season is back! For our first walking tour we visited the gorge of Vouraikos or Voraikos which is located in the north side of Peloponesse, 63 km from Patras and 170 km from Athens. This hike is part of the European path E-4 and it coincides with the track of Odontotos, the railway with the toothed rack rail that connects Diakofto (Diakopto) with Kalavryta.
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Cape Sounion and stopovers around it
The temple of Poseidon at sunset is one of the most typical postcards from Greece and also one of the top-selling tours for tourists visiting Athens. The sunset is undeniably spectacular and it would be a shame to leave Attica and miss it even if, from a photographer’s point of view, the temple is just as interesting in the morning. Luckily near the temple there are several places to spend the night, to suit all tastes.
Lavrion and surroundings
On our way to Sounion, to the world famous and heavily visited by tourists Temple of Poseidon, we decided to stop by the ‘unknown’ Lavrion where we finally spent a wonderful evening pretending to be explorers in search of ancient tombs and then visiting one of the oldest theaters of ancient civilization in Greece! Lavrion proved to be very welcoming also for an overnight stop, being only 8 km away of the Temple…