Zagori Day Trip from Lefkada

The deep Vikos Gorge in Zagori, with grey limestone cliffs and green forest running down to the river below.

A Zagori day trip from Lefkada drives north through Preveza and Ioannina to the stone villages and the Vikos Gorge of Epirus, and returns to the island the same evening. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours. The sections below cover the tours you can book, the road, timing, Ioannina, … Read more

Zagori Day Trip from Ioannina

Visitors walk over the three-arched Kalogeriko stone bridge above a green river pool in the forest of Zagori.

A Zagori day trip from Ioannina is a full day in the Pindus mountains north of the city, among the stone villages, the arched bridges and the Vikos Gorge of Zagori. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours. The sections below cover the tours you can book, the drive, the … Read more

Zagori Day Trip from Parga

The Vikos Gorge cuts a deep green canyon between tall limestone walls under a blue sky in Zagori.

A Zagori day trip from Parga is an 8 to 11-hour excursion from the Epirus coast to the stone villages, stone bridges and Vikos Gorge of Zagori, in the Pindus mountains north of Ioannina. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours. The sections below cover the tours you can book, … Read more

Papigo Canyoning

Papigo canyoning gorge with the rock pools of Papigo

Papigo canyoning is a guided descent of the Nefeli gorge beside the village of Papigo in Zagori, with rappelling down its waterfalls. The routes run as the Nefeli A section, the Nefeli B section and a waterfall rappelling trip. Greece Tours lists the trips that start in Zagori. This page covers where the gorge lies, … Read more

Zagori Canyoning

Zagori canyoning: the limestone walls of the Vikos gorge in Zagori, Epirus, with the river bed far below

Zagori Canyoning Zagori canyoning is a guided descent of the Nefeli gorge at Papigo, where travellers walk, swim, slide and rappel down small waterfalls between smooth limestone walls. The gorge sits in the Pindus mountains of Epirus, in north-west Greece, and the descent is one of the most active ways to see the region on … Read more

Zagori Jeep Tour

Zagori jeep tour stop at the three-arched Plakidas bridge near Kipi

A Zagori jeep tour is a four to nine hour four-wheel-drive run through the stone villages, the arched bridges and the Vikos gorge viewpoints of the Zagorochoria, on forest tracks a hire car cannot use, priced from 60 euros a head. Plan the rest of the trip with Greece Tours. This page covers the day: … Read more

Zagori Stone Bridges

The triple-arched Kalogeriko bridge below Kipoi in Zagori

The Zagori stone bridges are single, double and triple-arched packhorse crossings built over the Voidomatis, Vikos and Bagiotiko streams between 1750 and 1935, paid for by emigrant benefactors, and about forty of them still stand among the forty-six Zagori villages. Plan the rest of the trip with Greece Tours. This page covers the visit: which … Read more

Vikos Gorge Hike

The Vikos gorge from the Beloi viewpoint with the white riverbed running between the cliffs, the canyon a Vikos gorge hike crosses

The Vikos gorge hike runs from Monodendri down to the springs at Vikos village, twelve kilometres through the deepest gorge in the world by depth-to-width ratio, a descent of seven hundred metres and a climb back out that takes six to seven hours. Plan the rest of the trip with Greece Tours. This guide covers … Read more