Blog Mike

I woke up around 6 this morning and headed to the bus station to catch the 7AM bus the gorge. While boarding the bus, I ran into another guy from my hostel room who happened to be doing the hike as well. After a 3 hour bus ride, we arrived at the gorge at 10 and started hiking down. While we were walking, I heard a couple speaking English and asked where they were from and it turns out they were from Seattle. We all ended up doing the hike down together at a rather quick pace. Stopping only two or three times for breaks and photos. Luckily, the weather was rather cool and we had plenty of shade. It took 5 hours to do the hike and had a 1/2 hour wait at the bottom before getting onto a ferry to another city in order to catch a return bus. According to west-crete.com, the hike is “16 km long, starting at an altitude of 1250m and taking you all the way down to the shores of the Libyan sea in Agia Roumeli.” We ended up getting back into town at 9:30PM and will be catching a bus at 7:45AM back to the port I arrived at and taking a ferry from there back to Athens. Expected time of arrival in Athens is 4:45PM.