The first of the highlights are the ruins of the Byzantine city of Mystras. Built on a big easily defendable hill, the city spills steeply from the hilltop castle down. This place was the last outpost of the Byzantine empire, Byzantine from 1249 to 1460, however it was inhabited into the 1800s.
Next came the Lagadha gorge with impossible switchbacks, overhanging rock walls, a tunnel and a lonely wild mountain goat that played "call and answer" with us for a while.
Over the top, a long downhill was interrupted by a little more climbing, and more switchbacks before the mountains revealed the port city of Kalamata to us.
We are now south of Kalamata on the beautiful and rugged Messinian Mani Coast, taking a couple of days to rest and enjoy the exquisite blue sea.
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