The Samaria gorge is around 10km long, is wide at the beginning (altitude: around 1200m) and narrows until it reaches the village of Agia Roumeli by the sea.
Pine forest, at the highest parts of the gorge.
Agios Nikolaos church.
Agrimia (also called kri-kri) wild goat.
Agrimia (also called kri-kri) wild goat.
Agrimia (also called kri-kri) wild goats.
The village of Samaria was uninhabited until the gorge was turned into a park in 1962. Now only park rangers live in the former village.
Wild goat in Samaria.
The "iron gates": the gorge is only 3m wide at its narrowest point near the sea.