Monday, August 17, 2009

Rack Railway to Kalavrita.

While we were At Platanos city, we arrange to take the famous "Rack Railway Train" that goes from Diakopto to Kalavrita.
Diakopto is a city at sea level while Kalavrita is a city builted at about 760 meters above sea level.
As you can imagine the train goes all the way up (It's a steep slope for a train ).
That's why the made it "Rack railway".
You can see it at the next photograph.It's about 30 minutes from the one point to the other but....
the view is awesome!!!!!!!!!
I don't think that you want me to explain what we saw!
Here is a small sample of what we saw. 



All the passengers of that small train were standing up and went from the left to the right side of the train to see the view at the left of us the right of us .....
...... above us and underneath us!!!!!! 



Click at the next picture to have a closer look.
If you do it you'll see a canyon with a river at the bottom side and somewhere in the middle you'll see the old narrow bridge that the train used to pass by...... 
Yep,... It's a kind of scary looking back to where the train just pass!.......
..............but it is gorgeous to!.............



I tried to give you an idea of what we saw.
Believe me that it's not compared to what we saw over there.
Let me tell you that this track is voted Europe's one of the most spectacular track and the 6th most beautiful world wide!!!!!
Just think that is "built" near 1896.

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