trekking Samariá Gorge, Crete

The Samariá Gorge is a national park on the island of Crete, and a major tourist attraction of the island.

… the gorge is 16km long, starting at an altitude of 1,250m at the northern entrance, and ending at the shores of the Libyan Sea in Agia Roumeli.

… The most famous part of the gorge is the stretch known as the Iron Gates, where the sides of the gorge close in to a width of only four meters and soar up to a height of 500 m.

The most famous photo op, the “Portes”:

larger original – flickr – green_lover