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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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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
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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
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Meteora CC-7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
Meteora-23 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
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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
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Meteora-33 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
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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.
Agrino CC-7 by Sara & Daniel Pedersen, on Flickr
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