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Practical Motorhome magazine
Sept 2013
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Great Ocean Drives - Kalalamta to Monemvasia via the Mani Peninsular on the Peloponnese was to be the highlight of the road trip what was to be a total of 4,000 miles .
To the ancients, Cape Matapan was the portal to the underworld and driving the on the Mani Peninsular still feels like a journey to the end of the earth .
The drive proper start in the demure resort of Kardamili , then on the corniche road to Areopoli – probably the most sensational 25 miles of sea side driving in Greece following a coast scalloped with coves and dotted with tower – houses built by feudal medieval warlords.
Head to Cape Matapan topped by its pepper –pot lighthouse, then snake up the Mani’s eastern seaboard, seeking out tumbled Turkish citadels and barrel -roofed Byzantine churches. Eventually, you’re in Gythion, a pretty fishing port, which has a causeway to the fortified island of Monemvasia. This is Greece’s Mont Saint .-Michel and is completely unmissable.
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