Treks

• Africa
  • Ethiopia's Simien Mountains
  • High Atlas Summits
  • Malawi's Mulanje Mountain
  • Mount Kenya and the Abadares
  • Mount Kilimanjaro (Lemosho) Trek
  • Mount Kilimanjaro (Machame) Trek
  • Mount Kilimanjaro (Rongai) Trek
  • Mount Toubkal Ascent
  • Siroua Summit and Saffron
  • South Africa's Drakensberg
  • Tichka to Toubkal Traverse
  • Uganda's Ruwenzori Mountains
• Asia
  • Annapurna Circuit Trek
  • Annapurna Sanctuary
  • Classic Everest Base Camp Trek
  • Everest View
  • Jordan's Canyons, Peaks and Petra
  • K2 Base Camp & The Gondogoro La
  • Kangchenjunga Base Camp
  • Ultimate Everest Base Camp Trek
  • Ultimate Tien Shan Trek
• Europe
  • Across the Alps - The GR5
  • Corsica's GR20
  • Iceland's Best Trek
  • Peaks of the Pindos
  • The Best of the GR11
  • The Pyrenean High Route - The 'PHR'
  • Tour de Mont Blanc
  • Tour of Monte Rosa
  • Trek the Tatras
• South America
  • Bolivia's Royal Mountains
  • Classic Inca Trail
  • Ecuador Explorer
  • Luxury Lodge Trek
  • The Best of Patagonia
  • Torres Del Paine Circuit
• Antarctica
  • An Antarctic Odyssey
• India
  • In the Shadow of Nanda Devi
  • Ladakh's Markha Valley
  • South India - The Western Ghats
• Indonesia
  • Borneo & Mt Kinabalu

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Background

• Peaks, gorges, rivers and tarns
• Traditional Zagorian hospitality
• Light backpacking

Group size     6-12

In the northwest corner of Greece, the little known but nevertheless spectacular Pindos Mountains are home to the protected Zagoria region and the Vikos-Aoos National Park. Here dramatic limestone cliffs wall in the Vikos Gorge, above which extensive limestone plateaux lead up the mighty peaks of Astraka and Gamilla. Nestling on the hillsides are some of the world’s most delightful mountain villages, protected in the traditional Zagorian style, and where we will spend some of our nights. On the north side of the wild Aoos gorge, still home to bear, wolf and lynx, densely wooded slopes lead up the volcanic summit of Smolikas, which at 2637m is the second highest mountain in Greece.

Our trip starts and finishes on the delightful island of Corfu, now served well with budget flights from London and Manchester. On our spring departures expect significant snow covered tops at higher altitudes and a glorious abundance of alpine flowers; whilst later in the year we see more of the shepherds and their flocks who graze the high pastures in the summer. Many are descendants of the ancient Sarakatsani and Vlach ‘clans’ and they still converse in a tongue not even understood by their fellow Greeks!

*Prices are exclusive of international flights to Corfu.