A truly fantastic gorge lies just inland from Ágios Nikólaos near the lovely village of Kritsá. It is called Chauga Gorge and leads through a very narrow valley with washed out walls.
Kritsá is a village with typical whitewashed houses climbing up the hillside. It is well visited in summer but now in winter most of the shops were closed, but more about that later.
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| Kritsá |
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| Starting point: 35.160913, 25.648525 |
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| Entrance into the gorge |
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| Well-marked route through the river bed |
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| Soon the climbing started |
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| Fantastic riverbed between steep walls |
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| Climbing up between washed out walls |
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| Few difficult passages |
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| “This way! Come on!!” |
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| The river bed starts to get wider again |
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| Too soon, our route left this beautiful gorge and led us back again |
When we had returned from the hike, we went to visit the village. It must be very different in summer when all the shops are open and tourists stroll around. At the end of November, nearly all the shops were closed and nobody else was visiting beside of us. Therefore, we couldn’t say no when an old lady lured us into her shop, and of course we couldn’t leave without one of her hand-made tablecloths either!
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| Very nice shop owner |
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| Her sister crocheting the border for another tablecloth |
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| She owns the shop since 40 years and showed me her sons and grandchildren |
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| Church of Kritsá |
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| Flower of the Day |
