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The deepest gorge in the world?

May 20, 2015 by Mike 5 Comments

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A hidden gem of Greece. Vikos Gorge holds a Guinness world record for being the deepest gorge in the world. I went to see…

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The Vikos Gorge is in the north of the Pindus Mountains, about 20 miles from the Albanian border. I parked the van in the village of Monodendri and spent a couple of days walking and cycling. This is a huge area of wilderness. It’s really starting to feel quite different as I go more north.

  • Part of the Vikos-Aoos National Park of Northern Greece–home to wildcats, brown bears wild horses, falcons, vultures
  • The gorge is about 20km long
  • The deepest part of the gorge (about 1000m) can be seen from Oxia, which is not on Google maps but is a km from the village of Monodendri
  • You can hike the full length of it (takes 6 hours) from Monodendri to Vikos

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That was Vikos Gorge. It’s well worth a visit.

Now I carry on going North–see post on where I’m going.

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  1. Jennifer Bradley says

    May 20, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    WoW is all I can say !!

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  2. BLKWLF says

    May 21, 2015 at 6:09 am

    gorgous view. thanks so much for sharing!

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  3. Graeme Voigt says

    May 27, 2015 at 11:34 am

    Holy shit that is mad!

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  4. Misha C says

    July 1, 2015 at 10:15 pm

    Tell me please that you are not the one who spray painted that poor rock!

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    • Mike @vandogtraveller.com says

      August 5, 2017 at 11:50 am

      I just got an email from someone asking if I spray painted an ancient rock. Subject: vandalism. So people think I went hiking with a can of spray paint? haha

      That paint was put there for people’s safety, to mark the end of the path and to not go any further because it’s dangerous. It was in other places too, written in Greek and English

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