Greece’s gradual reopening after the restrictions of the novel coronavirus pandemic shut down a key sector for the country’s economy, tourism, is shedding light on alternative tour spots that may be unknown to most of the Greek population and foreign visitors alike, Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) reports.
As ANA points out, Greece has two fossilized forests. One on the island of Lesvos and one in Laconia in the Peloponnese and there are museums at both sites and accessible beaches.
In Corinth, the naturally preserved forest of Mougostos, close to the beach of Mylokopi, is a natural oak-tree forest under presidential protection.
Off the coast of North Evia, lie the Lichadonisia, a cluster of seven islets often called “Greece’s Bahamas islands” with a natural-made port for private sailboats.
Greece’s variations in climate also feature the only desert in Europe on the island of Limnos, NE Aegean, and Pandavrechi (“It’s always raining”), a gorge in Evrytania, near Karpenissi, with several small waterfalls that create an impression of incessant rain.
Greece’s lakes include Tsivlous in Achaia prefecture, 108 years old; Taka in Arcadia, lying at 650 meters above the sea; and even higher, at 1,000 meters, the Loga lake in Thessaly, central Greece.
On Crete island, besides the best-known and walkable Samaria gorge, there is the Havgas gorge on the Lassithi plain, eastern Crete, combining a waterfall and a lake.
Lesser-known beaches in Greece of unique beauty are also found in Igoumenitsa, South Corfu, Zakynthos (in western Greece), Iraklio prefecture (Crete), Pagasitikos Gulf (Magnissia prefecture, and those of Pserimos, Arkioi and Marathi, part of the Dodecanese Islands.
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