Meteora

There is no doubt that this place needs its own post in our travel blog. It really is one of the most spectacular sites we have ever seen, up there with Mt Sinai, Capadoccia and Uluru. Extraordinary rock formations touching the sky and 600-700 year old Monasteries built on the top of them, caves in the rocks where hermits lived (for ever), a multi level Pre-historic cave site (Theopetra) with a human skeleton (we are talking 25,000 years old here) and sunset to die for.

We did 2 four hour tours with Meteora Travel, one in the morning visiting 2 monasteries and viewing others plus the cave, then a late afternoon one to visit another monastery, a very old church, hermits caves and to see the sunset. Such a memorable day!

Human skeleton in foetal position

Hermit caves up on the cliff face

Waiting for sunset