RED, WHITE AND BLACK BEACHES IN SANTORINI ~ Beautiful places of Barcelona and Catalonia

viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2014

RED, WHITE AND BLACK BEACHES IN SANTORINI

In our last day in Santorini we visited the most famous beaches of the island we have not yet seen.

The beaches of Santorini are interesting to visit because of its volcanic landscapes that give them red, black and white colours. However, they are not specially suitable for sunbathing, except perhaps Perissa beach. This black beach was quite spacious and the water was calm as a pool.

So during this day we visited:

The Red Beach
The White Beach
A Black Beach
Akrotiri
Fira

Red beach is one of the most popular beaches in Santorini

We arrived by bus from Fira to the museum of Akrotiri, which we didn't visited. From here we walked 15 minutes to the Red Beach. This beach is rather small and it was already crowded. We seek a place and enjoyed the nice day until the first Kaiku reached the beach.

Red Beach

Red beach in Santorini

The Red beach in Santorini is a bit narrow and when we arrived it was pretty crowded

Red beach in Santorini from another point of view

Volcanic landscape beside the Red Beach in Santorini

This Kaiku took us to the white beach. We didn't get down because the boat didn't get close to the shore and we would had to get wet to the waist. Then it led us to the Black beach and finally back again to the Red Beach.

White Beach

Arriving to the White Beach of Santorini from the Red beach

Umbrellas on the White Beach in Santorini

White Beach in Santorini from the Kaiku

Black Beach

The Kaiku led us to this Black Beach in Santorini after the White Beach and before coming back to the Red Beach and Akrotiri

From the Red Beach we came back to the Akrotiri Museum, where we took a bus to the village of Akrotiri. There we had lunch octopus and squid in a family tavern.

Akrotiri

Family Tavern where we had lunch in Akrotiri

Grilled octopus and squid we enjoyed in Akrotiri

After having lunch we came back to our hotel in Firostefani until the sunset, which that time we enjoyed from Fira. We enjoyed a lot the walk from Firostefani to Fira beside the Caldera up to the place from we admired the sunset.

Fira

Apartments beside the Caldera of Santorini. From these apartments the views must be really nice

Apartment beside The Caldera located between Fira and Firostefani in Santorini

Firostefani and Imerovigli in Santorini through this arch of a house near Fira

Fira beside the Caldera on the top of a cliff in Santorini

Fira in Santorini with the Orthodox Cathedral on the top

Sunset in Santorini from Fira. The islands of this picture are Nea Kameni (volcano) on the left and Palea Kameni on the right

Argo restaurant in Fira

We had dinner in Fira in Argo restaurant. The sunsets of Santorini behind the Caldera are really nice. We enjoyed all the evening sunsets, every day in a different place, and all of them really beautiful.

This was our trip route from Crete and the Greek Islands to Athens:

Day 1 - Crete: Chania