Yesterday we finally hired a car
and toured to a few of the tourist spots on Nisyros Island which is one of the
Dodecanese Greek Islands in the Aegean Sea. Nisyros is of particular interest
to us because it has an active volcano with five craters in the caldera and a
path down into the Stefanos crater. In fact, Nisyros is a “volcanic island” so
Tom, being a Geologist, was interested in getting “up close and personal” with
some of those rocks!
(Remember to click on the photos to enlarge them)
(Remember to click on the photos to enlarge them)
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| The Nisyros Caldera |
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| Tom feeling the heat from "those rocks" |
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| Tom in the "hot seat!" |
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| There were 10 Tourist buses arrived while we were there! |
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| Tourists walking down the crater. |
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| Just a few of the tourists in the crater ! |
There are two villages perched
on the volcano’s rim and we visited both of them. Emborios, which was abandoned after it was destroyed
by an earthquake in 1931. Now days there are a few residents who run a couple of
restaurants overlooking the caldera and there is also a picturesque little
church.
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| Fran at Emborois
The other rim village is
beautiful Nikia with its dazzling white houses that are visable way off shore. There
are about 50 residents who have returned to the town to re-build their family
homes.
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| Spectacular Nikia |
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| Church of the Prophet Elias |
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| The Colourful Inside the Church |
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| Thistles at the top of Eagles Point Lookout
As it was lunch time we headed
back down to the coast to Mandraki, the island’s major port and capital. This
busy little town has a charming waterfront and labyrinth of streets all huddled
below the 14th century monastery and the Mycenaean Castle (Paleokastro).
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| Volcanic Rocks in the town |
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| The Balconies are called "chatterboxes" |
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| Tom with drying octopus! |
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| Typical Store |
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| Overlooking Mandraki |
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| The Monastery |
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| A Well belonging to the Monastery |
After such a busy enjoyable day we were well and truly ready to head to Hamamas in Pali harbour.
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