Píndos

This massive mountain range traverses Greece from north to south, extending in a series of chains, for the most part over 2,000m/6,560ft, from Mts Grámmos (2,529m/8,298ft) and Smólikas (2,637m/8,652ft) on the Albanian frontier to Mts Vardoúsia (2,437m/7,996ft), Gióna (2,510m/8,235ft) and Parnassus (2,457m/8,061ft), near the Gulf of Corinth. This region of forest-covered heights, with summer grazings above the tree line, is thinly populated, much of its occupied only by shepherds, and with only two roads of any consequence passing through it - between Ioánnina and Kalambáka and between Karpenísi and Lamía. The Píndos range forms the watershed between the rivers flowing into the Ionian Sea (Thyámis, Ákheron, Árakhthos and Akhelóos) and