Day 5 - Stalagtites and Stalagmites

Our goal for the day was to get to the Diktian Cave, which is where they say Zeus was born. His mother fleed his father because he had killed all his brothers when they were born because he had been told one of them would take over reign. So Rhea fleed and had her baby hidden in this cave.

Outside the cave, looking down on a plateau. Hard to believe it's a plateau because we are looking down on it, but we had to remember that we are thousands of feet in the air and this just happens to be several taller mountains. Pretty neat to see such flat ground amongst all the mountains.

We don't really care too much about the mythology, but the cave was quite awesome. The pictures don't give it justice. There were stalagtites and stalagmites EVERYWHERE! It was so neat to see their growth through the thousands of years. After climbing to the bottom, which was very deep, we were able to walk around just a bit. There is a lake down there too, which had crystal clear water from mountain runoff.

After that we drove to Agio Nickolaus, which is a huge tourist town. This is the place to be in the summer as it's packed with vacationers. It was an absolutely beautiful town. And to make it better the sun was shining and warm! I could have sat out on the rocks looking at the water all day! (I'm sitting on the rock below)

Then is was a long drive home. We were home early, by 7:00, so watched a movie before falling asleep.