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Places to visit => Places to visit => Topic started by: Hilary on October 30, 2018, 01:04:18 PM
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Kastori, Lakonia
In particular the Castor River Gorge.
We stopped in the village of Kastori first to admire the wide central road, lined with stone houses, and the church at the end. It is a village we had passed through several times before but had never stopped
Then on to explore a small part of the Castor River Gorge.
This area had been flooded and had suffered some damage in the recent Medicane/Zorba at the end of September but to us it looked beautiful with the autumn leaves dropping from the Plane trees and the Cyclamen flowers peeping through the Ivy covered hillside. Then what is this? There was a tiny white flower in the middle of the muddy path, which had been inundated with water a few weeks before, a Snowdrop, Galanthus reginae olgae. Then looking around we saw many groups of Snowdrops and quite a drift of them across the stream. We didn’t try crossing the wooden bridge as it might have been damaged during the storm.
We have been told that, in the season, the gorge hosts drifts of Lunaria annua, Honesty
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Beautiful place Hilary, thanks for sharing it through your lovely 'photos.
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Absolutely lovely (we've now made a note of the place-name!)
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If we were to go to the Kastori Gorge again, from Sparta, I think I would suggest that we take the 'New Road' as far as the Pellana turn off, thus avoiding all the twists and turns of the old road.
The Gorge is very near the village of Kastori
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Thanks for that tip, Hilary!