hiking Santorini, Greece

I’ve never been to the beautiful island of Santorini … though I’ve enjoyed the movie Summer Lovers many times.

Here’s a useful site for Santorini Hiking Routes.

A good place to start your hiking dashes is the long but quite easy path, the favourite of all tourists, that will lead you from Fira to Oia via Firostefani and Imerovigli. It will take you about three hours to reach the end of your destination. The view offered while hiking is excellent and the caldera looks absolutely magical. Do it during the sunset or early in the morning when the sun isn’t yet so hot. …

A must do side trip is Nea Kameni:

… The nearly barren island is visited daily by dozens of tourist boats throughout the summer. The visitors take a well maintained gravel path to the 130-meter-high volcanic crater, from which wisps of a sulfurous steam rise, transforming the environment in places into a “yellow wasteland”.