Natural places of interest of Greece

In the middle of a green valley in northern Thessaly the mount the Olympus, for ancient - kingdom Zevsa towers sacred. In neighbourhoods small rivulets and sources wear names of antique gods as all terrain round the Olympus is considered a part of divine possession. From antique times these places were presented by the greatest poets - the Homere, Gerodotom, Evripidom, Demosfenom, etc. Being here, it seems ÷òî  it is possible to hear voice Orfeja.

The Climbing on the Olympus is easier for beginning with the settlement Elassonas party. On a track in picturesque places tourist baselines and shelters where it is possible to take rest and even to stay the night are had some. At altitude nearby 1700  the m is a grotto in which within 25 years alone there lived the artist and wrote Olympus landscapes.

Fans of an aspect of rest popular now - observations over auks (English bird watching) - can recommend to attend delta of the rivers Evros and Aheloos. It is the original bird's world where numerous wood-cocks and the waterfowl nesting in Northern Europe and Arctic regions winter.

In reservation on island Zakynthos in Ionian sea small population of a marine turtle was saved.

the Indelible impression will be abandoned at everyone, visited on island Rhodes, by a valley of butterflies. In a shady valley million butterflies, scarcely noticeable, dozes in the afternoon on arbours, boulders and bushes. If them to frighten away,
they start to thrill alulas and shroud the incomer in a pink cloud.

On island Crete, in mounts Levka-shout, at altitude 1400-1600  m were fragmentary saved ðîùè  an umbelliferous cypress. the Rests of cypress woods exist also on islands Rhodess, Samos, Chios and in some places of Peloponnese.