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Honeymoon, Day 5 Santorini

July 16, 2004

This is how the island looks from the ocean - so dramatic

You have to either take a cable car to the top or ride on a donkey

This is Santorini's capital, Fira

Santorini is the prettiest place I've ever been. Period.

Everything is built into the side of the cliff

Everything is white with blue roofs

We walked around the rim - it's an old volcano (erupted 4000 yrs ago)

This is someone's house. It has a pool, and it drops off to the ocean

Erin and Matt with the gorgeous view

Very steep...we rode the cable car up

That's our ship wayyyy down there

Matt with an interesting domed-roof

Good shot of Fira. It's not as pretty as Oia, believe it or not

Wandering through Fira - quite confusing

We took the bus to Akrotiri at the south end of the island

These are ruins from when the volcano erupted 4000 years ago

They are still excavating - it was just discovered in 1967

A door! These were by far the oldest ruins we visited

See how the island is half-mooned shaped?

We took a bus back to Fira, en route to the far side you can see

Back in Fira for a few pictures

This is Oia, the prettiest spot on the whole island

You can see Fira behind Matt

We saw a lot of the hotels we were thinking of staying at before...

It drops off right down to the ocean

You can wander down the different staircases

All the churches look like this

So beautiful!

You basically just wander around; everything is a postcard

Erin with Oia

That pink place is the restaurant where we ate lunch

Matt and Oia

Oia

Hard to find an English-speaking person to take our picture

Pretty flowers in Oia

Just gorgeous...

Many of the hotels feature rooms that are carved into the cliffs

You can see the holes where they're building a new hotel

Random blue and white staircase

You're supposed to watch the sunset from the tip of Oia

Matt being artsy - you can see the church in the reflection :)

We ate lunch at the Seagull restaurant - such a view!

Matt had meatballs

Erin had pasta with marinara sauce

Soooo many churches

Doesn't this look like a postcard?

Hotels in Oia

I could seriously live here

A cool church next to the bustop for the Fira bus

There were tons of doorways to nowhere - the steps drop down steeply

See Matt wandering down the steps in Fira?

Exploring the walkways and stairs of Fira

Great shot of the donkey trail - it's very long and steep

Erin and a church in Fira

Another postcard shot - there's our ship

Our ship is docked next to the tiny island in the volcano's center

Matt and a whitewashed church

Matt and Erin with the view, before getting back on our ship

Took this one ourselves!

And this one - trying to be romantic

We walked back down the donkey trail to our ship to save $