Volcano Tours in Greece: Santorini, Nisyros and the Aegean Arc
Nine volcanic centres run from Corinth to Bodrum. Three have been active in the last hundred years. Only one of them sells tours.
Greece has nine volcanic centres. It has one volcano you can book. The South Aegean Volcanic Arc runs about 450 km from the Isthmus of Corinth to the Bodrum peninsula in Turkey, and strung along it are Sousaki, Aegina, Methana, Milos, Santorini, Kolumbo, Kos, Nisyros and Yali. Three of them have erupted or shown unrest in the past hundred years: Santorini, Kolumbo and Nisyros. The rest is geology you can walk on rather than a volcano that does anything. That distinction decides where you should go, because the tour market followed the caldera with the cruise terminal, not the one with the fumaroles.
This page compares the Greek volcanoes with each other. What a day on Santorini actually involves, which port you leave from, what the crater walk costs and why the warm water disappoints some people, belongs on the Santorini pages below and is written there. What follows is the part nobody publishes: which of these nine places is worth a ferry, which one you can only reach in July and August, and which one is a mining island with a very good coastline rather than a volcano.
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Volcano Travel Experiences in Greece
Three, Four or Five Hours out of Ammoudi, Open Bar Aboard
Three, four or five hours from Ammoudi Bay with an open bar and a BBQ on the sun deck. The Red and White beaches only come on the longer two. Private boat.
Three Wineries, a Tomato Factory and a Front Table at Santo
Gaia in a converted tomato factory, Gavalas in its fourth generation, and a front-row table at Santo Wines for the sunset, with cheese and local plates.
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