IS SANTORINI WORTH THE HYPE? GREECE'S FAMOUS ISLAND
good morning everyone here from santorini which is probably the most famous island of all of the greek islands we arrived here yesterday from athens on a flight at night so we haven't really seen anything at all yet and this is the view from our apartment so we're facing the east side which isn't really like the iconic side but still super beautiful beautiful ocean over there and we're staying at this place here alonya that's the name of the apartment so this is 66 a night a pretty good price for santorini which is usually a pretty pricey and yeah it's just like one big open space so this is the bedroom area got ac actually been using it as a heater because it's pretty cold right now in may at night anyway and then the bathroom's nice that's about it just a kitchen area here can do all our cooking the internet also seems pretty good as well which is good for us so that we can do some work and we're staying right here in the capital called fera we were unsure on which area to stay in there's different areas there's areas where you're right on the beaches but we just decided to stay in the capital it's a small island anyway so you can get around pretty easily so we're gonna walk into the center of the capital now but first we're going to go to a village that's just close to where we're staying called firostifani i don't know if you can see in the mist but there's actually an island over there so that's anafi another nice greek island i think all the islands in greece are nice from the videos that i've seen weather's okay as well isn't it yeah kind of cool yeah i'm just worried about how it's gonna be on the beach but for walking it's it's good actually yeah so straight away this is already how i imagine the greek islands everything super white and nice and already an iconic greek island church because you don't really get that styling like athens right no at least we didn't see any yeah we didn't see any like that beautiful with the blue dome it's too nice wow look at this all right well within like a minute of walking from our apartment i can already see what all the hype is about here in santorini because these views here are just absolutely nuts it's crazy how high we are like look at that the villages go all the way to the top there there's just all these like stairways and stuff going down i guess like different hotels can see some swimming pools over there restaurants spas yeah that's crazy yeah we've never been to a place like this right on a on an island hillside no it's epic yeah so there's loads of little different walkways we're just taking this one here a bit lower down but i think we can go all the way to the center through here so obviously on this side here you won't be getting any accommodations for 60. you saw that with even a pool it's like over 500 a night right yeah they were very expensive and some were like over a thousand dollars per night really yes well maybe one day in the future oh man look at that view yeah this place is insane guys that is one amazing village there that guy just said if there's a place more beautiful than this i've never seen it i really didn't pay attention yeah american guy this is definitely one of the most beautiful places i've ever been to i think yeah look at this church a bit different right like beige check this out here for a restaurant location wow constantly wow views yeah wow it's crazy so i think that's uh the center of fear over there the capital down there that guy said well as well everyone's saying wow it's amazing actually a big uh cruise ship here we're so far away it looks kind of small it doesn't look big it looks tiny but it's a big cruise yeah and there's like a pool area there it's like a crazy walk you'll see later on to go down there look at this church here as well different style once again yeah this is like the prettiest place ever prettiest village ever so in case you're wondering this is filmed in may so it's like around 20 21 degrees celsius max which is super nice especially to be walking around cities and villages like this and it's also not that busy right like there's people around but it's far from being super packed like we saw some videos and during summer it's like crazy facts it's like some place that i wouldn't want to be in july august i guess like two packs but now it's actually nice yeah now it's like perfect mix but yeah as you can see all the walkways are super small so with a lot of people here it'll be hard to walk around so that port that i mentioned before they actually have like this here like a cable car that you can go up and see that it's going pretty quick isn't it yeah tiny i think it's like four people in each one or something there are stairs though to go all the way down but good luck walking back up there let's see the price of this restaurant here since this is an insane view that might be the best view so far pizzas like 15 euros not actually that bad is it 15 euros and you get this kind of view yeah so a fish dish is like more expensive almost 25 euros but there are some for just like 19 euros the important part mojito 10 euros all the alcohol drinks are 10 right the mixed drinks foreign so now we're walking inside of it we're right near the center now so cute thank you then little dress as well yeah so even the center fairer it's busier definitely but still not that many people here and may walk around quite easily really so this has just been like the main shopping streets here loads of stores everywhere stores and restaurants cocktail bar wow check out the mega church here beautiful that's the biggest one so far yeah i'm gonna keep saying it but this place is just too beautiful found this really secluded area here now everything just looks super nice beautiful blue doorways beautiful pathways so a really cool thing about this island is it's actually being created by a volcano so you could probably see that the island that we're on bends around there and then there's a part that's separated over there and then all the way there in the distance which is still our island so this used to be all like the outer edge of the volcano and yeah parts of it have collapsed and the whole centre has collapsed so there would have been like a big volcano here but um yeah it collapsed and i think they call it a caldera so all this is like inside of a volcano and i think only in the last couple hundred years this part in the middle has appeared and it's actually increasing in size so it wasn't that big a couple hundred years ago and you can visit that place there's a boat tours and the eruption that mainly gave it this kind of structure and made it collapse was around 3600 years ago which isn't really that long ago i know the there's been volcanic activity here for like millions of years but the one that gave it this shape was 3600 years ago and there was a civilization on this island but that just wiped them out and they were also on crete as well but i think it almost pretty much wiped them out there as well like the tsunamis so some of you are probably wondering about the drone shots because those of you that watch this channel will know that i didn't have a drone in the places that we went to in the middle east because some other countries there you can't take a drone into the country or fly so my dad shipped it from portugal where i left it to athens dhl and yeah i just picked it up from their store there so the drone is back now have you missed the drone shots and the videos yeah yeah it always makes it better doesn't it yeah and also sometimes it actually help us like uh sometimes you find places because of the drones yeah better parts of the beach sometimes we we see on the drone oh that part is uh the water looks nicer and then we go there so it's also uh very helpful for us yeah i was also able to see now if like this village stretched on a bit further but i saw it doesn't we're pretty much at the end now of this part look at this building here a bit different so there are lots of different styles here it's not all the same colors like a little like maroon red one there majority are white though so here's a close-up of one of the accommodations i think these pools are heated as well obviously not much privacy though because you're right on this walkway here well some of them you'll get privacy obviously but some of them not at all like completely exposed church number 20 number 20. yeah maybe even more so after looking around a bit we found the restaurant that we're gonna have lunch at a lot of the other restaurants people had already taken the best spots with the best views but this one's pretty good here so i get this view over there and carol also gets a nice view of the hillside back there this place is called kalia so here's some of the prices like the fish is either 30 euros or 28 euros you can get 19 the free-range chicken fillet i might go for that one 19 euros i think even the drinks are like a water four euros fifty pretty expensive and carol's gonna go for this one this pasta ore with cherry tomatoes from santorini 21 euros so the food has arrived here's the chicken dish got a bit of mashed potato it is a small portion but fancy fancy restaurants are always like that right yeah fancy fancy dish might be good though let's get some gravy in there oh the grave is really good i thought i just ate chicken but that's actually a mushroom okay hello chicken all right let me try the chicken yeah it's good yeah good chicken oh and um the water was like four euros because it's a big glass one liter yeah big bottle yeah and mine looks like a big portion of pasta i think i'm gonna get food with that yours looks extra saucy yeah it's a bit spicy actually but it's delicious i really love the the pasta sauce yeah the pasta is good as well it looks really good you got more food than me so so we're now at the main bus station here in fira and we're getting on this bus here to a spot called camari uh beach spot right it's supposed to be one of the best beaches yeah finally i'm eating greece yeah greek meat let's go hello so the bus is going to be 1 euro 60 per person i think it only takes like what like 10 15 minutes yeah because the island is not big so yeah it's so small yeah yeah so it's going to be quick quick yeah that's a good thing though easy to get around a lot of people going to i think the bus is gonna be packed on the way back oh yeah for us yeah probably all right where is that beach it looks cool already right how it's right next to the it's so so giant huge mountain cool ah the bus leaves you right on the beach like a 30 second walk wow that's a nice beachfront so got the restaurants all the way along right there as well it's a volcanic beach isn't it i think all the beaches are like this pretty much on santorini right black sand beaches as long as it's not pebble beach yeah i think they're gonna have some pebbles yeah there's some pebbles over there wow what a view yeah that looks amazing nice and quiet as well ain't nobody around at all empty pretty much yeah we thought the beaches here were going to be packed because uh like the town wasn't really that busy yesterday we figured everyone had come to the beaches but i think there's just not that many people here right now in may i guess you can go around here somewhere we've just brought a beach towel so we're not gonna use one of these umbrellas let's see what the water temperature is like here in the mediterranean of greece in lebanon in the mediterranean there it was still a bit cold yep i think that's like the same temperature pretty much still pretty cold in may yeah so inside it's just all rocks pretty much i think here in greece it's very common to have rocky beaches not always sandy really i'm loving those views though look at the backdrop as well that's actually a road goes all the way to the other side to a place called pirissa that we might go to in the next video i already know carol's not getting in yeah to be too cool i think it's like the same temperature as in lebanon yeah but there was warmer it's the outside temperature yeah that's a shame because i really wanted to swim here but i don't think i can do it there you go carol she's showing us how it's done she went for it all right kyle's going for it inspired by the lady nice and nice and awake now yeah i thought not that bad so i think we're going to be seeing loads of different kinds of beaches during our stay here in greece we're going to go to about four or five different islands and they all look kind of different to each other i think even here on santorini i don't think they're all black like this i saw there's another beach called a white beach and uh red beach even a place where there's like red cliffs so yeah i think the sand on those beaches is slightly different and some of the other islands that we're going to go to as well we'll have like the super turquoise blue water because the sand will be a different color obviously because you can already see here like how transparent the water is but since like the rocks are black the water's kind of dark as well so we're back in fiera now just in time for the sunset wrapping up a bit here gets a bit cool in the afternoon doesn't it go yeah i think it only drops to like 17 or 18 degrees though yeah but for brazilian that's too cold that's already that's freezing for carol yeah yeah it's not cold right now though it's really nice no wind at all and yeah there's the sun so looks like it might be a pretty cool sunset carol's part of the squad the sunset squad no not so so we're now in the downtown area of uh fiera we haven't seen this place at night yet so we thought we'd check it out pretty cool it's a different vibe at night isn't it yeah and the views look i don't know maybe better i don't know it's hard to choose but all it's enough yeah it looks very nice and yeah it's a different experience but you have to see both during the day and during the night yeah and there's some bars and restaurants that only open at night it seems yeah many cocktails and like wine places to go many restaurants it's a very nice place so this is like the main bar street here in theater that's what carol saw anyway online where all the bars are so probably gonna grab a drink it is the next day now we ended up drinking way too much at the party we weren't even planning on going to a party we were just gonna go to a bar for a few drinks and then uh yeah we ended up going to a place that pretty much turned into like a club and we just kept drinking and drinking and yeah we didn't feel very good so completely forgot about filming and forgot to close out this video as well but it's been a really awesome first day exploring santorini just a spectacular place and we're going to be here for a few days so yeah we're going to check out some more of the areas here some more villages some more beaches so that's what's coming up in the next one if you 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2022-06-07 05:22
