Overnight clothing has to be carried for the 3 nights spent at mountain huts. For those clients with limited time, join us for the first week of this tour, ending in Tsepelovo on day 7 and return home on day 8. Of the many general guides to Greece, The Blue Guide is a standard on cultural aspects and The Rough Guide to Greece, for general information, are worth consulting. Good maps are difficult to obtain as there is no equivalent to our O.S series available to the public either here or in Greece. Sheets 55-60 cover the northern Pindos.
Place names are in Greek script.
The northern Pindos is one of the finest wilderness areas in the Balkans and indeed in the whole of Europe. Although the climate is warm in Summer, the Pindos Mountains remain green long after the winter snows have thawed. In spring and early summer meadows are ablaze with alpine and other wild flowers, including an amazing abundance and variety of orchids. Towards Autumn, as the leaves begin to turn, just as colourful are the forests of beech and hornbeam. Overall, perhaps the greatest attraction of the Pindos mountains is that one can find a greater solitude here than in many other mountainous areas of Europe.