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Sometimes the hotel tries too hard to be helpful. Like when they iron your under armour.....

Delphi by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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The road to the Greek border from the west coast is again up and over a windy mountain pass that lets out into a huge valley.

Screen Shot 2016-06-05 at 12.58.35 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Screen Shot 2016-06-05 at 12.59.15 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora CC-17 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Here the road meets the main highway that ends at Kakavia.


Meteora CC-18 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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You drive up to the passport control of Albania, where they want your passport and bike title. Here they stamp your passport and cancel the computer TVIP.


Meteora CC by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora CC-2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora CC-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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Next there is a short drive to the Greek passport control. They only want your passport here. The agent was so funny when I pulled up beside Dan at the checkpoint he gave me a big thumbs up and said “Sara you are a long way from home”. As he was reviewing our documents he was asking Dan questions about our trip. Then he grinned and said “ clearly you are spies”. Passports stamped back into the Schengen zone. YEAH!

Meteora CC-4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora CC-5 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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From the border the things that are first apparent are the fantastic road conditions and the lack of trash on the side of the road. The drivers here seem quite courteous as well. We are destined to Meterora, but will take the long way thru the Pindou National Park. Here we drive amazing winding roads for several hours and saw about 3 other vehicles.



Screen Shot 2016-06-05 at 13.02.46 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Screen Shot 2016-06-05 at 13.02.00 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora CC-7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-23 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr



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Meteora CC-9 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora CC-10 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora CC-11 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora CC-12 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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The last part of the high mountain pass the sign says “drive at your own risk”. Here we saw no oncoming vehicles, there were some rough patches and loose gravel, and at the end a huge step down across the entire road. When we got to the other end it is actually blocked from traffic entering that way.

Screen Shot 2016-06-05 at 13.03.06 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora CC-13 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Snowplow station

Meteora CC-14 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

You can see the rocks of Meteora from about 20 km away. The view is really stunning.

Meteora CC-15 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora CC-16 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Screen Shot 2016-06-05 at 13.06.49 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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“The Metéora, literally "middle of the sky", "suspended in the air" or "in the heavens above" is one of the most spectacular and unique rock formations in the world. Immense monolithic pillars and hills like huge rounded boulders dominate the local area.

It is also associated with one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece. The six monasteries are built on natural sandstone rock pillars, at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly in central Greece.”


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteora



We arrived in late afternoon, but did get a chance to check out some of the monastery views.


Meteora-26 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-27 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-5 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-10 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-12 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-42 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-41 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-40 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-39 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-38 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-37 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-36 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-35 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-33 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-32 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-31 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-34 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-30 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-29 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-28 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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We visited the monastery of the Holy Trinity by climbing up thru the rock.

Meteora-4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-5 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-6 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-8 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

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Meteora-15 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-19 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-17 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Meteora-18 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-20 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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And a few night shots.


Meteora-7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Meteora-11 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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Our next destination is Delphi, which you could reach in just over 3 hours on the highway. We planned a better route south thru the mountains with a stop in Agrinio. This took us just about 6 hours for 233 km.

Screen Shot 2016-06-06 at 19.14.03 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Screen Shot 2016-06-06 at 19.14.44 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

I would say for 5 of these hours we saw less then 5 other vehicles on the road.

Agrino CC by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Agrino CC-6 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

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We did see lots of cows, sheep, goats, and debris on the road.


Agrino CC-2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Agrino CC-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Agrino CC-4 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

There was a short dirt road section in the middle, but this is civilized Greece and the road is a road and there was even trash cans out at the end of the driveways for what was obviously routine collection trucks.



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Delphi-2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Agrino CC-8 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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We went up and over several mountain passes and past aqua blue lakes.


Agrino CC-12 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Agrino CC-13 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Delphi-3 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Agrino CC-14 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

We had picked Agrinio not for its appear, but for the great deal on heels here. Our Greek friends say it is the ugliest city in Greece, but it was nice actually.
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We had a short 180 km to get to delphi and small village on the side of Mount Parnassus.

Screen Shot 2016-06-06 at 17.23.13 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


We are headed here to see the 4th century BC ruins of the temple of Apollo. We took the small secondary roads for the first half. Again we saw 1 car. There were some very steep tight switchbacks like a mini Stelvio.

Delphi CC by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

Delphi CC-2 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr

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You will ride thru thousands of olive trees.


Delphi CC-9 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr


Where else do you ride into Olympic Hotel and really mean it. And of course the family run place is owned by Nick the Greek!

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