BEAUTIFUL GREEK ISLAND YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF! KASTELLORIZO
good morning everyone here from cash in turkey we're actually just about to leave turkey for half the day we're doing something a bit different today we're gonna head to uh greece we're gonna go back to a greek island but just for half the day there's an island really close to the coast i think it's only like uh 28 minutes to get there 20 minutes isn't it yeah yeah very quick it's very close and apparently this is something that a lot of people do when they come here to cars so this is the company that we got the tickets from mace fairy lines in the center they give you a ticket obviously you gotta take your passports as well and they do advise to go a day before and this is 30 euros per person so that's a return ticket all right so we have made it finally so if you're doing this day trip just uh keep in mind that you're gonna spend a lot of time in uh the queues for the passport control so even though we got here in like 25 minutes on the boat i think just time in queues we spent around an hour and 45 minutes so yeah that was a bit of a pain so it's around 11 now and we have to go back at four so it's not much time but luckily this uh this place is super small and as usual carol gets given a hard time for a passport yeah it's very frustrating like when i was leaving turkey the guy was like looking at my passport for like i don't know three minutes while all the other people it was super fast he was even checking if it was a false passport we're sorry yeah of course i didn't say anything but i was uh very uh sad about it and it's very common like i've already mentioned here in the channel it happens a lot and here when we got to greece the guy was also checking my passport there was a discussion between between the brazilian brazilian yeah i'm like what the hell yeah it's just her first rating because it happens quite a lot and with chris because he has british passport it's always easy one second yeah one sec and a lot of the other passports yeah yeah so that's annoying anyway so getting on with the video this is the only town in castellorisa so this is the capital and only town here so we're gonna walk around here a bit and there is a castle up there so i think first we might make our way up there and check that out there a huge military boat massive military boat so this is the eastern most inhabited island in greece so that's probably why they have a military base here so when we were approaching this island we could already tell straight away that it's very different to the greek islands that we've visited in the cyclades the architecture style is completely different colorful which is good right yeah it's not the whitewashed buildings yeah it's a different style yeah it's nice to see something different here in greece yeah it is so i think this is a part of the group of islands called the dodokinis which you have other major islands like roads so maybe they those places have uh buildings that look like this maybe this is the style of the dotterkinis still get the beautiful waters though we'll be swimming in there later on just like the other place in greece though you always have the knife spots that have a drink right on the sea front here got some little sun beds too i'm not sure if this is like a beach club or something some beds everywhere around here also something that's different on this island is that we have a mosque i don't remember seeing any mosques in cicladies so that is called osman aya mosque and that was built in the 1700's there used to be a turkish minority on the island during the ottoman era and they lived around this area here so that's why the mosque is here and it's been reconstructed now and it's a art gallery from what i read online and over there in the distance is kaz where we came from so kaz had a greek majority so here had some turkish and i had some greek but when they had the population exchange in the 1920s the greeks from there came here and i guess the turkish went back over there okay i think this is like the biggest ghost island we've ever been on yeah i think you saw that there's only 500 people living here right now yeah right now yeah there's like barely anybody that lives here really all right well i guess this is the beginning of the the castle looks like castle walls maybe this way another day lost on a greek island can never find our way around it kind of seems like we're going the wrong way because i mean a normal path wouldn't look like this those stairs so though check out this cute little greek house i think i might have made a mistake i don't think this is actually a castle so it looks like a castle from far away but this is clearly just a modern structure it's like a dead goat here that's nasty alright so it turns out that there is a castle we were just in the wrong building there you go that is definitely a castle and you also get this really beautiful church a nice orangey color church wow this is the view spot carol a bit too tiring to do all this uh climbing right yeah bit too hot i mean i wish he wasn't this hot because it's like i'm almost giving up at least we arrived at the highest place that we're going today yeah the rest is going to be easy yeah i don't think we're going to do much more hiking but yeah from here you can really get a good view of how the town is so just look how small that is you can see how only 500 people live here looks like there'd be even less than 500 cool mountainous backdrop too beautiful so around the castle you can see that there's loads of ruins the base of old buildings around here from the drone shops it doesn't look like you can go in the castle oh there are some letters there aren't there cow's not in the mood for that anymore and we came on this side because there is another bay here so it's not just that part there starts to make sense now how there's 500 people living here because there's another section here not as many houses i think this place is called mandraki we see that name on pretty much all the islands so yeah if someone can let us know what that means mandaraki mandrakia a lot of the places had the same names don't they or placa yeah black i don't think there's a place called placa here but mandarake there is and i think also yeah that means saint yeah oh okay yeah because i think some of those islands are called i guess are you george i think we're gonna go to those islands soon we're gonna do a boat tour around the island that takes you to some caves and i think we can ask them to drop us off on those islands and check this out here it looks like some sort of military thing because look looks like a bunker or something like camouflage painting oh yeah look here too i guess that's for them to shoot out of that window there must have been when there was some conflicts around here wow look at that house carol that's what i just said thank you all right how beautiful this house is in portuguese yeah that is one vibrant house reminds me of the ones in curacao oh yeah actually all the buildings here remind me of it like that a little bit just because of the colors i think the architecture is different yeah just the colors wow so we're back at the port area now probably just going to walk all the way around to check this place out should only take about 10 minutes and then we're gonna look for the boat tour we're currently discussing if we're gonna eat at a place like this as well looks like a great spot to eat oh definitely got lots of options of cool spots to eat that right everywhere is so beautiful i'm loving here so we found a nice quiet spot to eat at this is called little paris and the prices are good the main meals are all around eight nine euros we're back in euros now so just trying to work out what i'm gonna get i might get some pork nine euros you wanna get the saganaki right carol's favorite i was scraping it it's gonna keep like a like a cheese but fried and i think i'll have that for starters and then something maybe baked vegetables or pasta i'm not sure yet guys look at the size of this turtle or tortoise girl that thing's a monster so the food has been served carol ended up going for the pasta here that's a huge plate of pasta yeah for two people i would say yeah it looks like two people so that's eight euros isn't it and then the delicious saganaki six euros and even mine look at the size of that so good affordable food with huge portions can't complain in this view yeah so we're gonna do the boat tour now we're getting a private boat so it's going to be 40 euros and we're going to this place here this is the famous spot blue cave i think if you don't do private it's just 10 euros per person so now this is the only option that we have yeah thank you all right here's our ride it's just 45 minutes isn't it yeah i think so yeah a quick one all right check this out for a cave entrance whoa it almost looks like there's some lights below like artificial lights but that is just a little bit of sunlight right there i'm pretty sure that entrance wasn't a smooth entrance right no yeah this goes really deep look at that can you see down there no that's like pitch black a little beach oh yeah that's tiny beach over there it's bizarre how much light is coming in just through that little hole and it's huge yeah so it's really high really high yeah tall man it's gonna be fun getting back out of here again i almost broke the boat the boat hit the rock didn't it yeah i don't think that was the plan try not lose your phone all right so we've arrived now at st george's island man that was one crazy boat ride yeah got absolutely soaked i was actually afraid like when he was going because the waves were a bit rough and then you're getting drenched because you're on the front yeah so i'm all wet now and also when the boat hit the rock i was like oh my god i think he said it's kind of high tide now yeah and if the boat had more people it would be easier but since there was only the two of us and we don't weigh anything yeah that was a problem yeah but i mean this island looks absolutely beautiful look at the water just like everywhere you obviously have a church here just need to find a spot so we've got about an hour an hour and 10 minutes on this island just arrange with the guy what time to pick us up and then we'll be getting on the boat back to cache back over there in the distance water's a lot nicer on this side though isn't it especially over there color looks amazing i think that's the swimming spot on that side this looks like it's just a viewpoint or something can you stand up i can stand up here here's way better yeah so you can see loads of taxi boats coming here i think this island is only three minutes away so really close you see that there's another cave over there yeah yeah check this out it's like a man-made cave maybe you can go inside yeah i wonder why this place is bizarre that's interesting there's even like arches i don't know what this would have been made for ah that's where the decks are now where people are lying down yeah so this is the awesome thing about greece you can come to some like remote islands that nobody really knows about and uh yeah there's still loads of cool things to see you know the funny thing is uh the lady that organized the boats all for us she said this is like as busy as it gets yeah because there is a goal that came from rhode island yeah from the greek island yeah so this same day that we came let's see that people came so they're more people than usually but it's not busy at all really i don't know that's another cool thing about greece as well like there's so many islands that even in the peak of summer like now you can still find places where nobody there's even places way emptier than here yeah yeah but obviously if you go to mekong santorini it's gonna be insane other islands it's not as busy probably a lot of people watching i've never even heard of this island i've never heard of it yeah me too i just just heard it here in cafe castello apparently this place became a bit famous because there was an italian film an italian film called mediterranea and that won an oscar in the 90s so more people started coming here we've seen some italians here actually maybe because of that film hey yeah so you've probably noticed that we haven't shown any beaches in this video and that is because this island doesn't have any beaches i don't even think it has any rocky beaches no sandy beaches no rocky beaches it's just one big rock but there are still loads of swimming places but if you're somebody that really likes beaches well yeah this island might not be the island for you so we're not going to be doing anything more today when we got back we quickly checked out an old amphitheater when this city used to be called anti-fellows in the greek times and that was from the first century bc it only has the amphitheater there's nothing really else to see there i really enjoyed our time in this area and there's still more videos to come here from turkey so in the next one we're planning to go to some like really off the beaten path destination so far we've just been going to places that are touristy right that have many tourists so we think the next spots are gonna have less people around we'll see so if you like the video just drop a like spores subscribe like see more follow us on instagram and facebook and we'll see you in the next
2022-08-07 07:46
