Meteora Monastery Tour with Meteora Thrones - Cinematic

My solo trip starting in Amsterdam, through 10 countries via Eurail, has finally come to an end. I took my last Eurail train from Thessaloniki with a connection where I met up with 6 travel bloggers in my Greece group. Elena, Chrysoula, Mansoureh, Bruno, Daryl and Mindi were all on the same train from Athens that I was supposed to catch at my layover. It was great to see them after 5 weeks of traveling on my own, I could now relax and let someone else navigate and figure out what to do all the time.

Don't get me wrong, traveling on my own was great, it gave me the opportunity to meet a lot of people along the way, which I wouldn't have done in the comfort of a group. It was such a nice experience, but just very tiring being on guard, watching my bag, figuring out how the trains, trams, buses and taxis all work, plus the currency exchange in most countries. Now I was just along for the ride, and what a ride it was!

We were picked up by our driver from Meteora Thrones, our hotel was just a couple blocks away, but they were nice enough to take us there, get us situated in our hotel, then we were off to dinner at the Meteora Restaurant. Wow was the food good here, and so inexpensive. We even got a kitchen tour and got to see the dishes simmering in those big pots, everything was so good.

The following morning we had a quick breakfast at the hotel, then were off on our monastery tour. Meteora is incredible, it's like Zion National Park with monasteries built on the top of the huge cliffs. Just amazing, we got to visit a few, but saw so many from the road, lots of photo ops. We ended with a sunset view, it was pretty cloudy so the sunset wasn't epic, but we got a nice beam of sunlight peaking through the clouds for a nice shot.

That night we were treated to dinner at Valia Calda. That was such a good meal, dish after dish was so delicious. I hadn't had too much Greek food before this trip, just the basics. I was very impressed with the traditional Greek dishes, so good!

The next morning we had a hike to a monastery, it was nice to get out of the bus and walk around. We saw some really cool sights, got some exercise and enjoyed the outdoors. Very nice day full of great scenery and lots of photos.

We stopped back in town for one last meal, then took the train to Athens. Thanks again Meteora Thrones for such an amazing time, the best views in Greece!

Meteora Thrones

Meteora Restaurant

Valia Calda Restaurant

Hotel Galaxy

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[HereBeBarr]

All that good, it's like my big fat greek wedding hahah

[SkyelinesandSunsets]

Wow. Just amazing. The views, the food, the people and brilliantly edited. Looks like you all had a blast! Great video

[mansoureh]

Haha I forgot how much fun we had love the editing :)

[DaveOnArrival]

Meteora looks unreal. And the food looks amazing.

[EllaMcKendrick]

Nice tour! That food all looked delicious. I'm really hungry now! Wow at the drone footage at 1:21. That's a really surreal landscape! I also love the shot at 2:04 of the road winding round the mountain. Great video :)

[Sparkinheart]

Love the shots of the food! 😻 really good scenery shots too.

[FitLawyerJulia]

Def one of the top 3 coolest places I’ve been. Wish I did the hike tho. Next time.

[ParichayMehta]

What a brilliant edit this is! Perfectly cinematic. The way Greece's beauty deserves! :D That drone shot at 1:19 was beautiful! The hike looked easy, was it though?

[CheerstoTravels]

great editing! beautiful shots! since you have some drone shots here, can i assume that there's no restriction in the area? what about Athens? Just asking becuz we'll be there in Sept and want to be prepared :) Thanks! ~sara