This is a travel essay from our eight-week trip hiking around Greece in September and October of 2024. Read more posts here or on the Peripatos Substack! — Amy Hackney Blackwell & Christopher Blackwell
Pelion. Sept. 10–17, 2024
— Amy Hackney Blackwell
Our first multi-day hike was in the Pelion penninsula in Thessaly, northern Greece.
Our walks went over and around the magical mountain of the Centaurs.
This was Trekking Hellas’ Hiking tour Mt. Pelion (Self-Guided), a walk over and around the Pelion peninsula. Pelion is the ancient home of the centaurs, including the wise Chiron, tutor of Achilles, and the much more troublesome centaurs who broke up the wedding of Pirithoos and Hippodamia.
We didn’t see any centaurs; they might be extinct.