On 6th of May (can't believe it's already MAY!) me, Marie and Karolis from Lithuania went to look for car rental places near Syntagma and compare the prices.. After ten different car rental places we chose one and decided to go there later to rent a car for the next day. Before that we headed to the beach where I accidentally collided into the guys I'd met on the beach some weeks ago.. Mido and his brother with them I could play rackets, it is so much fun!! We left the beach after couple of hours because we had to make it before the rental place closed. The way back from the beach was crazy since the tram was so full that you really couldn't even breath there. One of my friends passed out on the tram and she didn't even have room to collapse to the floor. Scary moment! At the car rental place we negotiated to price down and got a pretty good deal. We had to take the car for two days since we wanted to leave early the next morning, we paid 80€ for the car for two days including everything except for gas of course.
7th of May (Happy b-day for my sister and my friend Saija!) we (me, Marie, Elise, Shiesma and Fahyma) saw at Syntagma at 5.30 am and left to drive towards Kalampaka and Meteora (350km). The drive went fast and we only got lost once for a little while and we noticed it immediatelly.
When we arrived to Kalampaka and saw the huge rocks far away it was already amazing. The thing that makes Meteora so special is the monasteries on the top of the rock towers. We drove up and the view was absolutely breat taking!! I've never seen anything like that!
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| Elise, me, Marie, Fahyma and Shiesma |
There are altogether six monasteries on different rocks. Some of them are not open everyday so if you wanna go there you should check the dates and times when they are open. We visited three of them and we had to pay 2€ each to get in. But it was worth it! The best one for me was the biggest monastery where there are still nuns living there.
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| Kalampaka |
After we had seen everything we wanted we decided to head towars this lake Plastira that one of my coworkers had recommended! It was 58km away and we made couple of stops somewhere (we really didnt know where we were..)
The lake was actually really difficult to find! We got lost couple of times and there really wasn't any signs to help us. At one point we stopped to ask this old couple for directions, in greek.. I understood some part and they actually ended up helping us! It took us long time to find it but it was worth it! :)
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| Lake Plastira |
We went to two different places around the lake which was huge. We heard that there is this dam somewhere and we wanted to find it. It took us so long! We drove in the curvy mountain roads for ages!
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| The dam |
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| Amazing view from the mountains |
When we left to drive back from the lake we got lost to the mountains and we didn't have that much gas left so it was pretty exciting... The drive back to Athens felt that it took for ever! At some point we thought that not that much left and we saw a sign with 250km! :D When we were finally in Pireus we couldn't find our way to center and it was so frustrating and we were all really tired and it was dark and we were hungry. Also finding a parking place in Athens is quite a challenge..! But we managed to find it and I was home around 11.30 pm! The day was long but again so worth it!! :)
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