Wednesday-Trip to Evros Delta

Morning at my hotel - the area that can be seen in the background is where my room is.

Today was the excursion to the Evros Delta, it is the delta of the river that runs between Greece and Turkey and makes up that boarder between the two countries. It is a partially protected wetland and from what they said a very popular bird watching area in the springtime. To get there we took a bus ride (a very long bus ride) down a little dirt road with the tour guide sounding mostly like a broken record, “to right, grey heron and spoon bills”, “to left a colony of black heron.” Then every once and a while she would add something else in that was a little more interesting. Once at the end of the bus ride we took a boat tour in some small boats (groups of 6) around the delta, all the little channels were kind of neat. Back on the long dirt road to Feres for lunch. Again really no clue what I was eating; salad (tomatoes, cucumber, and onion in oils), some king of meat ball thing that was wrapped in a leaf of lettuce, and some thing that was like pot roast on rice (it was really good). After eating we visited “the Church of Panagia the Cosmosotira (World Savior), which was built in 1152 by I. Comninos and is a miniature replica of the famous church of Agia Sophia in Constantinople” – it was a neat little church and is in the process of restoration. Apparently it was stripped of its artwork and such when the Turks were in possession of that area (a little bitterness with the Turks sensed). Then we headed back to Alexandroupolis. Now I am here at the Thraki Palace typing my blog. I think dinner starts at 9 and ends at midnight tonight.

I found this sign at the place where we had our boat rides around the delta, I'm not sure why it was there.

This was the boat that our group road in, it was by far the most

homemade boat in the tour.


Since I typed this I went out to the beach and fell asleep for about an hour, I am trying to upload some picture to my photobucket, but it doesn't seem to be working. They may have to wait until I get home.