Early morning in Chalkida city. The streets had just started becoming busier, but they were still quiet. The fierce summer sun had just started heating the place up badly, but it was still cool. Two friends and I had just picked up pastries and coffee from the bakery and were driving up to the mountains.The aim was the roof of Euboea Island, the top of Mount Dirfys, which is … [Read more...]
A Hiking Trip to Mount Kyllini
This is a post about a hiking trip to Mount Kyllini, the highest mountain in Peloponnese region of Greece. If you are looking for information and inspiration for planning out your hiking adventures throughout Greece, check out this resources page.It was an exquisite Greek summer morning. The blue color which dominated the sky was steadily adopting brighter tints as the mighty … [Read more...]
Hiking to the top of Mount Ochi and its mysterious Dragon House
This is a post about hiking Mount Ochi on southern Evia Island in Greece. If you are looking for information and inspiration for planning out your hiking adventures throughout Greece, check out this resources page.Mount Ochi (gr: Όχη, also spelt Oche or Ohi) is the third highest mountain on Euboea Island in Greece. It is located in the southernmost part of the island, north of … [Read more...]
Climbing Mount Giona, the Highest Mountain of Southern Greece
This is a post about climbing Mount Giona, the highest mountain in southern Greece. If you are looking for information and inspiration for planning out your hiking adventures throughout Greece, check out this resources page.Profound darkness was prevalent on half of the earth's surface where Greece is situated when, me and my friend Kasper, we were driving past the straits of … [Read more...]
Climbing Mount Cithaeron
Mount Cithaeron is a mountain located north of Athens, of which the highest peak, known as "Profitis Ilias" or "Elatias", rises to 1409 AMSL. The homonymous, elongated mountain range to which it belongs used to form the boundary between the territories of Athens and Thebes in ancient times; and the border between the Greek prefectures of Attica and Boeotia today.It's … [Read more...]
Hiking Mount Aigaleo in Athens
A sunny and peaceful Saturday morning... and we were driving our way out from Athens. Our destination was the Gereneia Mountains on the west border of Attica; however, there was only a tiny portion of the distance separating us from our destination we got to cover, after all. As the car was rolling along the highway by the outskirts of the city, that rolling of it started to … [Read more...]
Hiking Mount Pyxarias on Evia Island
This is a post about hiking Mount Pyxarias on north Evia Island in Greece. If you are looking for information and inspiration for planning out your hiking adventures throughout Greece, check out this resources page.Pyxarias is the fourth-highest mountain on Euboea, Greece's second-largest island. It is located at the northernmost tip of the great mountain range forming the … [Read more...]
A Hiking Trip to Mount Helicon
Mount Helicon may not enjoy the honor of a good position amongst Greece's highest mountains, coming only 59th in a row. Despite its nearly insignificant height (1749m) however, it may well boast of being one of the most renowned mountains in the world concerning its millennia-long, rich history, and tradition. This mountain has been carrying a sacred notion since a … [Read more...]
Hiking Mount Olympus on Evia Island
Who doesn't know Greece's highest mountain, the abode of its ancient gods, the all-famous Mount Olympus...? Everybody knows it, I assume. Very few people, though, are probably aware of the existence of the numerous other mountains, scattered throughout Greece, Turkey, North America, and even Mars, which share the same name with their most prominent "father". Euboea, Greece's … [Read more...]
