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Gammal 2009-04-11, 15:00
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Admirala thanks for your comments but could you please write in english cause i dont understand all that you wrote?
Anyway perhaps i was misunderstood, i wanted to stress that some of the attractions that you mentioned, though they are very nice, they still are considered as secondary attractions and still ignored from most visitors for various reasons...
One of the reasons is the poor marking/signage , the poor informative material on the site , the almost abandoned surounding areas (especially when they forget to cut the wild vegetation around).


Here is an example of what i mean. The pyramid of Hellinikon :

http://www.coolimagebank.gr/gallery/...g2_itemId=5762

http://www.coolimagebank.gr/gallery/...g2_itemId=5782

http://www.coolimagebank.gr/gallery/...g2_itemId=5772

The size of the structure is ~ 12-14 m x 8.6 m
I remind here that there are conflicting opinions about the age of the structure. (some say that its older then the egyptian pyramids some say that its from the 4th century BC)
Anyway if you stay for some days in Nafplio and you have a car and you have seen anything else , you could spend some time and go by car (no other option) to the small deserted hill near kefalari village and spend 15 min to see the structure but thats all..
At least the view from the hill toward the sea is very nic

Agia Moni, which is an old monastery and a small spiritual paradise (as all monasteries are) is very nice but still not a primary attraction for a visitor.There are hundreds of such monasteries in Greece, its always nice anyway nice to visit an orthodox monastery and take the blessing.

Φράγχθι (near Kranidi)
Sure its a very important cave for the prehestorical period of europe AND THE WORLD (PALAEOLITHIC TILL NEOLITHIC) but there is not much there to see in our days. Most of the findings are kept in the archaeological museum of Nafplion. For arhaeologists and other scientists sure its a very important place, and still there are some excavations but you would not put it in the front line of "must visit" attractions for a visitor of Greece , Peloponnese and Argolis.
It would help if there was a small building with multimedia represantation of the life at the times when the cave was inhabited , or at least someone from the ministry of culture to give information.
Instead , you travel a quite long time from Nafplio to east argolid (near the village of Kilada) and then you see just a cave, and if you dont have a book or look in google for more information you dont get much. Perhaps in the future when the ministry decides to "upgrade" the site it will be more interesting to visit it.
At least (like in the case of hellinikon) the view is quite nice!
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/5721355.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/6842547.jpg

Didzma caves (dolines) is a great site because of the impressive morphology of the ground (still uknown why those craters were created).

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/o...l/18356698.jpg

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/7040998.jpg

From the 2 caves the most interesting is the smallest one where you can enjoy the peacefull atmosphere of the trees and visit the small chapels that are built inside the "crater"

Though its not a primary attraction you could pay a visit if you have some time after returning from a visit to epidaurus.

At the end, Lerna, according to this news :
http://anagnostispe.blogspot.com/200...post_4374.html
A major upgrade of the arcaheological site is projected for the near future.
The current site looks like this:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/26...96700d0c_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2297/...0d1fdfae_b.jpg

So concluding, for a visitor who will have some time in the area it would be nice to visit all of the above sites, but for for a "more typical/average" visitor (as is the most case) who visits Peloponnese, he would not miss that much if he does not visit fraxthi or didyma or lerna, while you can not say the same for Epidaurus, Palamidi, Mycenae.... its simple like that!
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