Mykonos and Santorini are two of the most famous islands in Greece but on that very morning, there is no direct ferry between Mykonos and Santorini. We have to take a speed boat to another nearby island Paros to board the ferry to Santorini.
It is another 3 hours before we see the white little dots on the ridge of Santorini.
Santorini is a volcanic island and the city was built on the ridge of a volcano island. Last eruption was in 1946, and they rebuilt. Now the port has been shifted to another place, the old port has many steps up to the ridge and donkeys / cable car can help if you find the steps daunting. We will leave the steps to tomorrow and disembark at the new port instead. Transferred to bus and the public bus bring the full loads of people to the town. The moment we get down the bus, there was an old man asking us if we would like a place to stay. The price sounded reasonable, so we followed him to his house. It is not far from town. Place looked very decent actually.
We walked out to the street and I immediately understand why people love Santorini.
The ridge is so high that clouds actually roll u by! The volcanic island not far from Santorini is black in colour, in the middle of the sea. We are going there tomorrow. We signed up a package to take the tour to the volcano island opposite to where we are.
Wanted to wake up to see the sunrise but guess the sun rose too early for us to catch it. We brought a day pack and walked to the old harbor, walked down the steps and waited for the ferry that will bring us to the island. 10am and we departed.
The walk to the volcanic crater is an experience – nobody liked the sulphur smell. We walked around the rim of the crater. The sides of the crater is the characteristic sulphur yellow. We then moved over to visit other villages on the island. It is quite a walk under the sun I must say.
The ferry stopped at one spot near the shore and let u swim towards the hotspring. My swimming is not good so Z went to the hot spring alone.
When he came back, he told me the water is very cold, and the so called hot spring water was lukewarm. The ship then brought us back to Oia before heading back to the old harbor. We have a choice of getting down at Oia so we did. Walked up to the ridge again (panting) and finally reach the town of Oia. There is a greek orthodox church at the centre. Managed to walk around quite a bit.
After the walk, we took a bus back to the town. The friendly waiter that we passed by many times again invited us to try the restaurant food. We went in and gave it a try. So so. The price is definitely not so so. Not to a budget conscious just graduated student like me I guess =)
Packed up and ready to go back Athens for our next part =)
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