Santorini in Autumn

The famous Oia in Santorini

 When is the best period to visit Santorini, Greece? Autumn! You can see more of the island because there is not so much crowd and everything is cheaper! (We booked through Kiwi,  Athens to Santorini less than 10 euros per person)

​When you hear about Greece, most of the time you only think of Santorini and Mykonos. This is our first time to go to Santorini, yay! 
Santorini is a very small island of less than 80 square kilometers. 

Red Beach, Santorini

The car rental company advised us a bunch of places to visit and this is one of them. It's a a very quick 7-minute walk from where to park. Red beach is temporarily closed to the public because of landslide, but you can admire it from where we took the photo. This is about 4 minutes walking from the path. 

The highest point of Santorini is 567 meters, they have a monastery here called Prophet Elias. From this point, you can see the whole island.

Then we explored the movie Santorini. Shops, narrow roads, local artisan jewellery and craft, on a cliff, Oia is the place that we almost always see in movies. 

This is the only area in Oia that you can watch the sunset, we are lucky to find the perfect spot. Even if we didn't see the full sunset, we now have another reason to go back to Santorini, hopefully this Spring! 

​Special thanks to our new friend, Stavros, our host from Couchsurfing.

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