Walking thrue Lousios Gorge - Peloponnese
| Lousios gorge is a another valley in Greece we wanted to visit after hiking thrue Vikos Gorge. When we were looking map of Peloponnese it seems there is only mountains. Canyon is situated near Dimitsana village rounded with mountains in a northwestern part of Arcadia municipality. Dimitsana is a small typical Greek village with about 600 natives, with scool church post office, water museum, hotel and aquare. in an impressive mountain area, with small picturesque villages. |
Old bridge across Lousios river
| The origin of our trip was Kato Samiko near Ancient Olympia village where we stayed in Orange garden apartments. We were taking the routh Kato Samiko - Krestena - Andritsena - Stemitsa - Dimitsana. Dimitsana (Greek: Δημητσάνα) is about 100 km faraway from Kato Samiko coast reachable over hill country, winding, but asphalted road. There are three main villages from where we cane explore area of monasteries and Lousios Gorge: Stemnitsa, Dimitsana and Elliniko. The villages are located on the slopes of valley. Folow in signs to the gorge we turned at Elliniko town on the narow, full of turnings, but newly with asphalt covered road to the bottom of valley. |
Weather in Greece - Ancient Olympia, Dimitsana, Patras
| There was a fine old bridge across the river and an old church of Ayos Andreas. Iit’s also possible to take a 30 minutes walk up the river to an old monastery which actually is glued to the mountain wall. |
We didn’t have the time to visiting other ruins because we have trying to find moni Philosfou - the old monastery from 17th century. We turned back and up to the Stremnitsa. We couldn’t drive very fast, but we missed branch to Philosofu moanstery and so reached in Stemnitsa. We didn’t matter because the town was very kindly and from there were nice view on gorge. After dining we went back in direction of Dimitsana and but then turned down (again) to Lousios gorge. This time we found wright road towards Philosofou Monastery.
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On the same places the road was bit off the beaten track. Thera is a place only for one car. The view from the slopes where road leads us, was quite spectacular. In the distance we saw the monastery, Philosofou, hanging on the edge of a cliff. From the road we walked down to the 17th century monastery and were greeted by the one monk who still resided there. |
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