Ancient Achaia and Theatre of Egira

On advice from Manolis our jovial host at Camping Akrata beach, we set off to explore one of the river valleys and gorge on our trusty scooter.

The river Krios is about five Km to the east of our camp site and we head up the western side of the river past the Monastery of Agias Vassiliou built into the cliff face.

 

 

 

We pass through small villages  high in the mountains and get chased quite regularly by the local dogs.

 

 

We round the corner before the road runs out of tarmac and head back down the eastern side of the valley past the modern village of Eges with the incredible rock face as its backdrop.

 

 

As we approach the coast we see a small brown sign pointing up to the hill top to a Myceanean citadel. After scrambling up the bank, keeping an eye open for snakes, we reach the excavations.

 

 

 

From this viewpoint we cannot see any evidence of the theatre that Manolis mentioned. So we head on down the road and suddenly Sarah screams stop.

 

There, a tiny brown sign is hiding in the grass to the Temple and Theatre.

A short walk down the track takes us to the gate which we had already been told would be closed, so we took a few pictures of this Theatre which is slightly different as it has been carved out of the natural rock face.