📍Crete — Samaria Gorge❗⛰💚
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📌 Samaria Gorge and National Park is located in the White Mountains (Lefka Ori) with the highest peak of 2453m.🔝🏔
✔Samaria is a spectacular location with amazing nature that leaves you breathless! Seeing Greece from a completely different angle!
📍The starting point of the Omalos plateau is about 35 km from the city of Chania. From there begins the descent from 1200m above sea level to the final point of Agia Roumeli, which is located on the southern side of Crete on the Libyan Sea.
🔹️Samaria gorge is the second largest in the world after Colorado if you look at the height difference between the starting and ending points ➡️ 1200m❗
▪️The length of the gorge is about 17 km! The descent requires an intermediate to excellent level of fitness. People also take children through the gorge! It takes about 5÷7 hours for the descent when going at a medium pace with breaks. In many locations there are fountains to pour water and refresh yourself.
▪️Passing through Samaria offers a fantastic view of the surrounding mountains that are over 2000m high as you move through the cypress, pines and liander forest. ⛰🌲🌳
▪️Surrounded by real wildlife and people who like you enjoy a magnificent location! Samaria is home of Kri-Kri wild goat.🐐💚
▪️The first 3km is a steep descent and descends about 700m high and passes through a deep pine forest. About 8 km from the start of the descent is the abandoned village of Samaria, since the gorge became a national park. With every bend on the path, a new breathtaking view opens up! The Taraijos River circles the rocks and fills the pools and carves interesting shapes into the rocks!
▪️After the settlement, the gorge narrows, and the high cliffs that rise vertically begin to approach. In some parts there are completely vertical narrow rocks where the sky becomes a thin blue line.
🔹️The gorge is narrowest at the place called Iron Gate and is only 3m, and the height is about 300m! Magnificent unrepeatable location that is etched in memory!🔝🤗
▪️ After that, the gorge spreads all the way to the sea and the settlement of Agia Roumeli.
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