Thursday, May 8, 2008

Santorini

Santorini is a small group of beautiful volcanic islands situated on the southern east tip of the Cyclades. At first it's a bit strange to see all the small white houses on top of those scary cliffs and also the lack of green due to its volcanic nature. But it's a beautiful place, full of amazing landscape views. Before the enormous volcanic explosion which ocurred somewhere between 1650 and 1500 BC, this was a single circular island.

I visited two of the major settlements: Fira and Oia.

It was in Oia where I finally tried the Greek food, which perhaps wasn't the wisest thing to do, but I only figured that out later when I got sick.





My tourist look:

Santorini donkeys - you could climb up on a donkey or by cable car:


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