Corinth Fortress Climb

After the canal we headed to another fortress high on the hill. This one over looks the whole Corinith valley and waterway, Needlees to say it was another one of those days where the climb was straight up and on cobblestones. The cobblestones have become so worn and smooth that they are slippery even when dry. I can imagine how dangerous they would be when wet. There were different levels to the fortress, at the third level I stopped. I was high enough and the view was spectacular. Don & Geralynn continued up another two or three levels. We had a great time climbing around in the ruins wondering how did they do this? As we left we were still puzzled as to how they could get all that stone up there? Down below was another ruins area of a more ancient city of Corinith where there were Roman columns and lot's of rubble. the entrance was locked so we just peaked in and continued on home. The roundtrip drive out to the canal and the fortress was 186 miles so we had a pretty good day. Traffic going back into Athens was pretty heavy as it was the end of a four day Easter Holiday. This is the end of my vacation too. But what a vacation. I will post my picasa album album after I return home.

This was our lunch spot, how nice they left us a table and chairs.

Entrance gate to Akrokorinthos from the 657BC

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