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Megalochori

[ Aug.2013 ] This is another village in Santorini we visited with the tour. It is already recorded in the 17th century document. We were taken to a souvenir shop in a traditional semi-circular no-window…

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The monastery

[ Aug.2013 ] The highest point of Santorini is 567m. On top of this hill there is the Profitis Ilias Monastery built in 1712. They said there was no local bus service here, so we…

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Riding a donkey

[ Aug.2013 ] The holiday in Greece this time was full of interesting events, but the best was this, riding a donkey. After seeing the sunset from the Santorini sight seeing boat, naturally it got…

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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…