Pindos Attractions

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 those flowing into the Aegean (Piniós and Sperkhiós).