Kalavryta
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Kalavryta is normally seen as the season’s Naxos, it offers perhaps even more variety than Arakova which is its more popular counterpart and with a little less frenetic atmosphere. Kalavryta is a little town which is a good jumping off point for enjoying winter activities and sports in the area. It is located only 2.5 – 3 hours from Athens. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Meteora
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This is a true bucket-list destination, the very first sight of the monasteries that is perched on top of pillars of rock in this UNESCO World Heritage site is actually a take-your-breath-away moment. Of the 24 monasteries which once formed this community that is 1000-year-old, only 6 are still very much in operation and open to the public. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Tzoumerka
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Forming the smaller part of the big Pindos range in northwestern Greece, this mountain chain is actually a series of peaks which effectively form a large ridge that runs roughly north to south across the boundary between the regions of Ioannina and Arta. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Pilio
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Pilio has a lot of densely wooded, almost jungle-like, mountain slopes. When driving through it there’s a clearing where the sun normally breaks through, and you’ll see yourself surrounded by so many apple groves, and far below you the sea normally glistens, and all you will be hearing is birdsong. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Zagori
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Zagori is a mountain paradise. Nature-loving hikers normally find it hard to choose from the hundreds of kilometers of well-marked trails which run over old stone bridges, past monasteries that are inhabited and not, to protected forests teeming across ridges and with life and also views that are heartbreaking. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Arachova
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Arachova has long been seen as the ‘Mykonos of the winter‘, being the hotspot which normally attracts a lot of visitors than probably any other single winter destination. It is the village that is nearest to Greece’s biggest ski resort on Mount Parnassos, and it is just 3 hours from Athens. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
The Mountains of Arcadia
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The region of Arcadia has stood out right from the onset even with all the natural beauty in Greece and its name has become a poet’s byword for paradise. There is actually no surprise nowadays that this region has become the central Peloponnese and has continued to be under the radar of so many international travelers. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Metsovo
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In metsovo, visitors can easily enjoy wine and gastronomic tourism at the Katogi Averoff Hotel and Winery among some other good hotels, in addition with all of the so many outdoor activities that the wider area has to offer such as snowboarding and skiing at three nearby small resorts. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
Loutraki Pella
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Although there are thermal springs in many parts of the country, the Pozar Spa is actually one of the very best places to use Greece’s healing waters and it is located at the foot of Mount Voras, in the region of Pella Macedonia in the north of Greece. Click the next ARROW to see the next photo!
The Mountains of Corinth
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There are so many opportunities here for hiking, mountain biking and more, and the higher you go on the mountain, the smaller the villages get. But what most of them have in abundance is liqueurs, shops selling locally produced spoon sweets, good tavernas, very nice hotels and exceptional locally grown beans.