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There are plenty of places to visit
within range from the camping. Some of them are:
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Parga: It is
located about 40 km S of
Igoumenitsa, SW of
Ioannina, 65 km NW of
Preveza,
90 km W of Arta
and about 50 km NW of
Vonitsa
and about 60 km NE of
Lefkada.
The settlement dates back to ancient times and was called Ypargos.
When the Slavs invaded the area, it became Paragiros, Paragaia
or Paragea, Ypagogos or Epagogos or Epargos
where its named after the
Slavic word prag meaning port. Very
picturesque.
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Acheron: The Acheron is a
river
located in the
Epirus region of northwest
Greece.
Acheron translates as the "river of woe" and it was believed to be a
branch of the underworld river
Styx over which in ancient
Greek mythology
Charon ferried the newly dead souls across into
Hades.The
lake called Acherousia and the river still called Acheron with the
nearby ruins of the
Necromanteion are found near
Parga.
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Zagori is an area in the
Pindus
mountains in
Epirus, in northwest
Greece.
It has an area of some 1,000 square kilometers and 45 villages known as
Zagoria or the Zagorohoria, and is in the shape of an upturned
equilateral triangle. The southern vertex of the triangle is the
provincial capital, Yiannina (Ioannina);
Close to the famous Vikos gorge.
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Dodoni in
Epirus, northwestern
Greece,
was a prehistoric
oracle
devoted to the
Greek
god Zeus
and to the
Mother Goddess identified at other sites with
Rhea or
Gaia, but here called
Dione. The shrine of Dodona was the oldest Hellenic oracle,
according to the fifth-century historian
Herodotus and in fact dates to pre-Hellenic
times, perhaps as early as the
second millennium BCE. Priests and priestesses in the sacred grove
interpreted the rustling of the oak (or beech) leaves to determine the
correct actions to be taken. Greek oracles are often misconstrued as
having predicted the future.
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Ioannina and the island. A town with a long
history. The island within the lake Pamvotis was the court of Ali Pasha
during the Ottoman years. A museum can be found there mostly dedicated
to Ali Pasha's belongings.
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