Rhodes 2008 (1)
We started our two week trip to Rhodes at 12pm in Munich. The flight was OK and it took us only 2hr 25mins to get to the Diagoras Airport on the west coast of Rhodes (there is one hour time difference). We rented a car (Suzuki Jeep Jimny) and went straight to our hotel, the Cathrin. The hotel is on the east coast of the isle and very close to the famous Anthony Quinn Bay. They filmed a part of the movie “Die Kanonen von Naverone” in Rhodes and made the isle to millions of people public. It is a small but very beautiful bay with clear water and lots of underwater life.
Faliraki
The hotel is also near Faliraki, a very tourist driven place where most of the main streets are very noisy and full of animators in front of the many bars and discos. As we expected there was also a Mc Donalds, a KFC and even a PizzaHut for the average tourists. If you want party and action all night long (and you have no car) this is probably the right place for you. Street life begins at about 11pm, most people come even later. We thought we could walk from the hotel but we found no proper way to get there by foot. And if you had some cocktails the way back is even more difficult and for sure too long. If you have a car than Faliraki is a bad place for going out. Rhodes City is then definitely the better choice.
Valley of Butterflies (Petaloudes)
The first day we went to the valley of butterflies (Petaloudes). The entry fee was 5 euros and for that you can walk about 2km on a nice trail through the valley along a small river. There were thousands of butterflies and unfortunately also thousands of tourists. They come with buses at about midday and we didn’t knew that. I wasn’t able to take some good macros of the insects because first the light was not the best (too dark in the forest) and second because the masses of people were to noisy for the butterflies. Interestingly there was only one sort of butterflies with orange black wings, the Panaxia quadripunctaria.
Kolimbia was similar to Faliraki but everything was smaller. At the beach is a nice bar with comfy couches and relaxing music. The umbrellas at this beach were with 14 Euros (3 beds) the most expensive ones. The average is about 10 Euro for 2 beds and one umbrella. Most of the time we had 3 beds and two umbrellas for the same price.
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