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The sunset from the boat

[ Aug.2013 ] The climax of the boat journey around Santorini was again the sunset. We looked up at he Oia town being dyed salmon pink, where we had seen the sunset the day before, and…

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The meal on board

[ Aug.2013 ] Our Santorini sight seeing boat stopped at another place for us to swim after the hot spring, but it was already late in the afternoon and water looked cold, so I just…

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Disappointing hot spring

[ Aug.2013 ] The thing I was looking forward to during the sight seeing sailing around Santorini was the hot spring which is supposed to appear around a small island of Palia Kamani.You can swim there….

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Volcano island

[ Aug.2013 ] The first destination of the Santorini sight-seeing boat was the island of Nea Kameni. This one is a relatively new island formed by an eruption of the submarine volcano in 1711.It is full of…

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Going down the slope

[ Aug.2013 ] The towns of Santorini are situated on the cliff which is about 300m high. To take a tourist boat, you have to go down.The hotel stuff told us that it would take at…

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Because of their Calamari

[ Aug.2013 ] We went to this restaurant on the photo twice. This one seemed a family run restaurant with the friendly feeling, different from the stylish ones with the direct sea view. That is…

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Retsina wine in Santorini

Our hotel in Santorini in Greece had the exclusive terrace, so one night we decided to spend a quiet evening with a bottle of wine. Generally Santorini is expensive, but there are ordinary supermarkets with…

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Sunset and music

[ Aug.2013 ] The last destination of Santorini inland tour was Oia. This is the famous place with its sunset. After a short walk in the town, when we arrived at the west edge, there were…

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White maze

[ Aug.2013 ] The second place we went with the Santorini inland tour was a town called Pyrgos. It is a town on a small hill with a lot of white houses on top of each…