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Santorini Volcano

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Tholos is the center of the volcano which created Santorini so you can say it’s the Santorini Volcano. to get there from Santorini you have to either climb down 600 stairs or take the cable car down for €10 one way. I decided since I’m going to be walking on the volcano I will save my steps and take the cable car down which only takes a few minutes but it is a very steep few minutes.

This is called the “old port” where many of the island tours which are very close will board.
Here you have the cable car arriving
it was very crowded not only with people getting on tour boats but also with the cruise ship visitors getting off to visit Santorini.
You can see how crowded these tour boats get. Many people are enjoying the sunshine. I was trying to stay out of the sun as much as possible
This is the cruise ship waiting to unload its passengers
Our very nice sailing ship taking us to the volcano
You can see the strata from the different volcanic layers
Black volcanic rock
We are coming close to the crater
Here we have docked with two other ships between OURS and the dock
This is the small crater
A view of Santorini from the crater
The largest crater on the volcano. This volcano last erupted in 1956 was such a large Force the seismic activity leveled much of Santorini
You can feel the warmth from the Steam coming out and the smell of sulfur
Santorini behind the different volcanic rocks
Thirasia can be visited of course but you have to climb all of those steps from the port up to the village
There are many monitors on the volcano to measure activity
Proof I was there
Beautiful black volcanic rock
Just to the left of the temple which is on the lower left, the white building just above the waterline, we went swimming on Nisis Palaia Kameni. you could see that very close to the shore is Brown water. That is the heated hot spring so you get to experience the warm hot spring water and also the cooler ocean water on your swim
Here we are going back. You can see these people here from Madison Wisconsin
in the afternoon the line to get on the cable car went on for many hundred meters. It would’ve been a long time waiting in line to get down to the old port. I’m glad I went in the morning. There was nobody in front of me. And coming back in the afternoon also was not crowded. So if you visit you might want to plan your trip accordingly
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