photogallerie Samaria canyon  (go with  top to the upper part of the table)
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Is it hard to do the Samaria canyon?
The guide in the bus did mentione all kind of diseases: heart problems, bad knees, people who were to fat etc. These people were adviced not to walk trhough the canyon. It promissed to be a difficult walk.

Especially for the Samaria Canyon I did have bought mountain shoes. I don't advice it. These shoes are excellent, but not if you're not used to it. After a few miles I had some blisters, which did make the journey a bit more difficult. But I think when you've a normal health, this journey would not be a problem. When you've a bad healt (or are lazy) there's also an alternative which I will mention later.

Don't forget you walk in the nature, so you can't buy any drinks or food.

What can be seen?
The journey starts with a high stairs that leads you to the valley. The start is the highest part of the journey. The trails are good and not to small. You walk in the middle of nature, but unfortunaly there're many people walking. Some people have a tempo, other people walk slowly. It wasn't easy to make photo's, because other people want to pass and when I took a photo I wanted to pass these people again, to get by the group. I think some people are just walking with theire nose to the ground and are making a race of it. Some other people are walking as if they just reach the age of 90. In other words: nobody does have the tempo you like. There's one advantage: although there're many people, you can't get lost, because there's only one direction you can go.

Half way in the canyon there's a place to rest. After this place the real canyon starts. It becomes more narrow and the rocks are getting higher. At the end you sudenly see more and more people who are walking the wrong way. They don't look very healty, but do they want to walk back? Well that's not the case: these people didn't want to walk thwe whole canyon and came by boat. They walk about 1,5 km and then return to their boat, an ideal solution if you're not very healty or just are lazy.