This weekend I had a couple mind blowing days exploring a mountain range a few hours east of me called Vikos. Needless to say, all expectations were greatly exceeded!
Views so good even the dogs were dancing
I started off with an amazing hike up this river valley to get to a monastery up on a cliff
Did Matteo cross the super sketchy bridge he found???
No… no he did not. Well, maybe he went about half way until the wobbles made him reconsider his life choices…
You see these stone bridges all over the place. That dot you see at the top of the shadow was my best selfie of the day
Another thing I loved were the dozens of UNESCO stone villages to explore
This is the biggest valley in the range which sets the world record for the ratio between how tall and narrow gets
Don’t ask me what this is, my best guess is some kind of nature pretzel
This is the view from another monastery on the edge of a cliff
It was at this point that I got lucky and wandered up a hidden staircase I found. It led to an absolutely unreal path on the edge of the 3,000 ft cliff…
It ended at an amazing viewpoint
I was already on cloud 9 but then to my disbelief, I peered around a corner and realized the cliff walk was not exactly over yet… Sorry mom!
Then it just kept going, and going…
Then when I thought I’d seen it all, I came across a gate to Narnia…
When I made it to the other side of the canyon, this was the view looking back on the “trail”
Made it back safely in time for some alpenglow on the range. Thank you Vikos!
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