Sailed the caldera, climbed up a volcano,
swam the hot sulfur springs and visited an ancient island...
swam the hot sulfur springs and visited an ancient island...
A long tiring day - worth every ounce of energy I had in me.
We started our adventure early in the morning driving to
Amoudi Bay
- a port in Santorini just below the town of OIA – and let me tell
you that the view of OIA from Amoudi Bay is fabulous!
From there… we hopped on a boat and sailed the caldera! Watching the towns of Santorini on top of
volcano cliffs from the Aegean Sea was out of this world! I felt like I was
dreaming the whole entire time! Like, my pictures won’t do any justice - not
unless I had one of those long ginormous photographer lenses then maybe I could
have captured exactly what I saw.
Our first stop from sailing was an active volcano in the
middle of the Aegean sea.
From there we
hiked a good 30 minutes to the top – it was exhausting and the 77 degree
weather totally didn’t help… BUT! BIG BUT!!!! When we reached the top, OMG, The
view from the top of the volcano was beyond! The super blue water, the big open
sea, the mountains, the volcano cliffs… EVERYTHING! I don’t even know how to
explain the feeling I had when I was up there! I have never seen anything so
beautiful in my life! Like, I literally felt like I was on top of the world! Plus
standing on top of an active volcano was BANANAS! Amazing!
Our second stop was the hot sulfur springs near the Island of
THIRASIA
Unfortunately I didn’t capture any photographs here because our boat
stopped about 100meters away from the hot springs and from there we had to jump
off the boat and swim all the way to the hot springs! First, I thought “ooooh…
jumping off a boat and swimming to the hot springs sounds so fab!” NOT! It was,
but let me tell you…. We jumped off our boat right, and the water was literally
ice cold and the water was like a million feet deep and at that point it’s
either you chicken out and get out of the water and not see the hot sulfur springs or you brave it out and swim for
your life all the way there! I decided to swim- obvies!
After dying, like, I
literally felt like I died from swimming 100meters
I was out of breath, my
chicken legs were like cramping (like literally). We finally reached the
beautiful volacanic hot springs- it was so crazy to me how the water turned
from ice-cold to steaming hot! CRAY! Also, there we took a mud bath… they said
the volcano mud is like, amazing for your skin… It was a long and tiring swim
but it was totally worth it.
p.s. on the swim back to the boat - they have to give me a life saver because my body was too weak to function. #EMBARASSING
p.s. on the swim back to the boat - they have to give me a life saver because my body was too weak to function. #EMBARASSING
Our third and final stop was to the ancient island of THIRASIA
There we relaxed and ate lunch… It was the perfect ending to our day of
excursions!
Today was definitely a work out! Like seriously… we hiked up
and down a volcano, swam what felt like forever in ice cold water to the
amazing hot springs, had a volcanic mud bath, ate lunch on the ancient island
of THIRASIA and TOTES used every little bit of energy my chicken leg body could
handle – but OH, it was SO worth it!
