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PostPosted: Nov 19, 2005 6:14 pm
by zenas
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(c) HIRON Caving Club - Costas Vouzaxakis

PostPosted: Nov 20, 2005 5:54 pm
by zenas
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(c) HIRON Caving Club - Costas Vouzaxakis

PostPosted: Mar 5, 2006 2:49 am
by zenas
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(c) Ilias Partsios

PostPosted: Mar 5, 2006 6:55 am
by Squirrel Girl
Thanks zenas, for the great photos! :kewl:

Not only are many of them really fine quality photos, but it's so wonderful to have actual cave pictures up instead of all the arguing that's consumed so much of the board lately.
:thanks:

PostPosted: Mar 5, 2006 9:02 am
by speloman
:exactly: :yeah that: More :exploring: Less :argue:

Well Enough of that I am going to do some :exploring: of my own. Talk at ya later.

Cave of Melidoni - Rethymno, Crete, Greece

PostPosted: Apr 11, 2006 12:47 pm
by zenas
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Cave of Melidoni - Rethymno, Crete island, Greece
(c) Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research
http://www.caves.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1446

From Cave Milatou, Crete Island Crete

PostPosted: Apr 11, 2006 1:00 pm
by zenas
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From Cave Milatou, Crete Island, Greece
(c) Panos Kottakis

From Cave Antonof, Ano Voula, Athens, Greece

PostPosted: Apr 11, 2006 1:08 pm
by zenas
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Hellenic Speleological Society Expedition
From Cave Antonof, Ano Voula, Athens, Greece
(c) Theologos Tsalikoglou

PostPosted: Apr 11, 2006 1:15 pm
by Phil Winkler
Zenas,

Cave of Melidoni reminds me of Palmito or Bustamante Cave in Mexico. It also is used for religious ceremonies.

We were laboring up the mountain one day through all the switchbacks when we got passed by two nuns in full habit with a bunch of little girls. (blush)

PostPosted: Apr 11, 2006 1:25 pm
by zenas
Well, ancient greeks were using the caves for religious ceremonies but not as christians of course. These christian temples are very common to the greek caves and it's not from the ancient ages but recent. It's memorial to the greeks killed inside these caves by the Turks and Germans.

To this particular cave of Melidoni in Crete, 370 greeks (women and children mostly) killed by the Turks (20 Oct. 1823).
Their bones are inside this small temple to the first chamber of the cave.

PostPosted: Apr 12, 2006 10:22 pm
by zenas
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International Congress Of Speleology, August 2005, Athens, Greece.(from the closing day)
Photo: Panos Kottakis

Cave Spilaio Sfendoni, Crete Island, Greece

PostPosted: Apr 13, 2006 2:58 pm
by zenas
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Cave Trypa tou Sfendoni, Crete island, Greece
(c) Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research
http://www.caves.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1446

PostPosted: Apr 15, 2006 8:50 pm
by Ralph E. Powers
That does it! I'm saving up my dimes and nickles and going to Greece!

Truly very awesome photos... thanks much for sharing!

PostPosted: Jul 11, 2006 11:38 am
by zenas
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Cave Eptastomo, Parnassos Mountain, Central Greece
(c) Theologos Tsalikoglou

PostPosted: Mar 15, 2007 5:16 pm
by zenas
Caving in Crete island Video (Slideshow)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y-FAS59GVs