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The Pantokratoras

There is an asphalt road to the top of the mountain Pantokratoras (906 m), leading from Ipsos through Spartilas and Strinilas.
	The lest 300 m asphalt changes into concrete surface, which you can climb towards the same top.
There is an old monastery here apart and plenty of new transmitters.
	The monastery on the mountain Pantokratoras.
The monastery Pantokratoras.
	The monastery Pantokratoras.
The monastery Pantokratoras.
	The monastery Pantokratoras.
The monastery Pantokratoras.
	The main gate to the Monastery.
We can admire a beautiful view overlooking all sides, this one is to the north, toward the beach Agios Spiridonas. You can see a white dot on the sea, that is a big passanger ship.
	The view towards the south, you can see a coast somewhere around Nisaki.
A desert village below Pantokratoras.
	The view to the west at approach road from Strinilas.
Although the area is inhospitable, the nature found his place.
	Immediately under Pantokrator we met a group of about twenty jeeps, which arrived on the dusty and stony road from mountains somewhere. According to the one of the maps it should be a field road to Loutses. There were no road on the other map. We can see this turning in the upper left corner of the picture.
Although the whole section is only 5 km long, the journey took over one hour! It would be faster by walk or by jeep. To have my car I would immediately returned back. This picture shows the last section, which was almost stonyless.
	It was a wery interesting trip ...
... but we were looking forward to an asphalt road.
	Because of dry and hot weather, but especially a undisciplined smokers there are a lot of fires here. This one was on August 17th 2001 near Spartilas.
In a heavy accessible field there is a need of helping by a special equipmented helicopters ...
	... and the planes.