Sarah's favourite today a train ride albeit not steam.
An early start at Diakofto station on the coast.
The rack and pinion railway climbs up the Vouraikos gorge for 22 kms with some very steep section and tunnels.
The railway was built in 1889 to convey ore to the port.
As you can see there are sections where it just hangs on to the cliff edge, off to the left is a five hundred foot drop.
The bridges span the river at intervals along the way.
The first station we come to is Mega Speilo and from here you can walk up to the Monastery, see yesterdays post for a picture of the same. Rob could not be persuaded as we had already seen it from the road.
You also have the opportunity to walk back from here to the coast, but as you have to walk along the track for three hours,again Rob was immovable.
We continue our journey up to Kalavrita where we disembark to explore the town and to visit the Holocaust museum which is in the old Schoolhouse where the separation of the men from the women and children took place before the massacring of 1436 males took place in 1943
The Cathedral in the square has two clocks, one of which is stopped at the exact hour of the massacre.
We re-join the train heading back to the coast taking a few shots missed don the way up.
One of the original trains built in Paris.
Another great day out in some spectacular scenery.
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