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Vardousia
11 Jun 2011 - 12 Jun 2011

Destination of the travel was Vardousia mountain in the area of Fokida. We stayed at the village of Athanasios Diakos. We booked a room in the pension «Meterizi» and then had a coffee and ice cream «Ravanis» at the beautiful square of the village. We drove until the village Sykia and had a look of the steep slope of the Gkiona mountain. We continued a little ahead and had a view of the lake of Mornos river. We returned back to Athanasios Diakos and had dinner at the central square of the village.

Next day we started at 9:30 in the morning. We drove along a beautiful earth-road until the refuge of Vardousia, as much as close to the peak of Vardousia because heavy rain was expecting at noon. We started climbing the steep slope with nice views of the meadows below. After 1:30 we reached the highest peak of Vardousia «Korakas». We stayed at the top only for 10 minutes because the rain has begun and thunder birds were often. At the most difficult part of the downhill the rain begun so we got wet and moved very slowly watching every step on the slippery rocks. Fortunately the rain stopped after a while and we ended the downhill in less than an hour. The earth-roads were full in mud but not problem with our 4x4 car.

We changed our clothes and left Athanasios Diakos. We drove to the village Mavro Lithari and had lunch there. Then we drove to Amfisa, but it was too quiet, so we continued to Delfi for coffee.

Landscape along the road	Driving to Athanasios Diakos	Athanasios Diakos: Pavilion at the central square	Athanasios Diakos: The steeple at the central square
Athanasios Diakos	The steep slope of Gkiona from Sykia village	The lake of Mornos	Start climbing
	Incredible view	Steep slope full of rocks
		View from the top	At the peak Korakas
Clouds are coming	The plane below the high peak	At the end of the footpath
			The pension Meterizi we stayed
Mavro Lithari	The central square in Mavro Lithari	View from Delfi with Itea at the far end	Arachova

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