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Black sand beach

[ Aug.2013 ] In the tour in Santorini, the time on the beach was included. The beach was called Perivolos with black sand. Santorini is an island made by the eruption of a volcano, so…

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Civilised ruin

[ Aug.2013 ] According to the itinerary of the tour we joined in Santorini, the next visit was Akrotiri ruin. I was not very happy to walk around the ruin under the flaming sun, but…

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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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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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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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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…