Vikos-Aoös National Park bursts with pristine rivers and forests, flowering meadows, and shimmering lakes that reflect jagged mountains and endless blue sky. Almost one-third of Greece’s flora (some endemic) lives here, along with native fish, foxes and chamois, rare hawks, otters and bears. The park’s Tymfi Massif contains numerous ear-popping peaks including Mt Trapezitsa (2022m), Mt Astraka (2436m) and Mt Gamila (2497m). Beneath them lies 12km-long Vikos Gorge.
Whether for the adrenaline rush of hiking, biking and rafting, or to seize some binoculars and admire its fauna, the park is a huge draw for travellers wending their way through the steep Zagorohoria. While hikers comprise the majority of visitors, seminomadic Vlach and Sarakatsani shepherds still take their flocks up to high grazing ground in summer, returning to the valleys in autumn.
