The Volcano Island of Santorini

On the 3rd day in Santorini, we took a sunset cruise to see the sunset and along the way we drop by the volcano islands and the hot springs.

This is the entrance of the volcano islands of Nea Kameni & Palea Kameni. The two volcanic islands were formed during a series of eruption between 1707 and 1950. You can read more on the islands here.



This is just the beginning, there is still a long way before reaching the top.



Some areas on the island ground are still hot and at some areas, the smell of sulphur is rather strong.



There are lots of big black rocks like this which were formed after the eruption.



Some of the footpath to the top of the Kameni island are quite steep. We only had about 60 mins to wander around this island. I only managed to reach the second highest peak due to "time constrains" (busy capturing the spectacular sceneries, what to do) and i was wearing flip-flops. Not bad huh?



I looked at my watch and I realised I have only about 15 mins to get back to our ship. I don't think anybody is interested to camp on this island. Its hot! On the background is the town of Oia. It is one of the best places to watch the sunset.



Notice the rocks near the ships? The orange bit? That I believe is sulphur as well.



Finally, we were back on our ship. After that we set off to the hot springs on the other side of the island. Some of us swam in the hot springs, whilst others looked on.

Then we slowly sailed towards the horizon where the sun sets whilst having some wine and finger food.



There you go, the spectacular sunset view from a ship. I think the sunset view from the ship is better than from Oia. The only drawback is that its harder to avoid camera shake on a ship than on the land. It will be worse if you were to use a tripod on a rocky ship.

That's all for now, more photos of Fira and Oia on the next post.