We went on a boat excursion! It picked us up at our hostel in the morning and took us to the port, from there we went to Nea Kameni, the volcano that is one of the small islands inside the crescent part of Santorini. We hiked all over it and even felt steam from the last eruption. After that we ran back down the mountain to get on the boat. It was such a cool boat, old and looked like pirate ship.
Hot lava...
Our boat :)
Next the boat took us to another volcanic island called "Palea Kameni" that has hotsprings and sulfur water that is supposed to be good for your skin. The boat couldnt pull up to land because its too rocky and shallow, so they docked in the deeper water and we got to jump off the edge and swim too it! It was really fun and refreshing after the volcano hike. People were putting mud all over themselves it was so funny. We swam around a little long and then went back on the boat.
Our next destination was Thirasia, a little island that has less than 300 inhabitants and was only about 10 square km. We had an awesome seafood lunch at "Captain John's Taverna". It was called a "Seafood Slovaki" and its what we think of as a shishkebab, it was sooooo good and had fresh swordfish, calamari, octopus, shrimp, peppers, onions, yum yum yum
Then we walked along the little island and the girls decided to go swimming and jump off the boat again :)
Then, our boat took us to Oia (Ia) that is known to have the most beautiful sunsets in Greece. We decided to walk up the steps to the top of the hill, it was 240 steps and took forever in the heat of the day but was totally worth it. It was an ancient town that was really cute and alot of pretty white buildings with blue doors, we got more gyros and staked out an awesome spot on this ledge to watch the sunset, one of my favorite nites of the trip
Later that night we went into town again and walked around the streets and danced some in the discos, i loved the santorini nights...
