Imerovigli to Fira

The views along the path from Imerovigi to Fira are spectacular.  This may be Firostefani, it is hard to remember where one village ends and the next one begins.

Row upon row of houses and hotels cling to the cliff all reached by narrow winding paths and staircases.  Getting around in the heat of mid day can be exhausting.  Best to sit under an umbrella, sip a glass of wine and get lost in the view.

Fira is situated 890' above the ocean.  Visitors arriving at the port of Skala have three choices.   Walk up the 566 winding steps, ride on the cable car or hire a mule.  A percentage of the profits from the cable car goes to owners of the mules.

Visitors have choices, the beasts of burden have none and ply their way up and down every day as their predecessors have done for hundreds of years.