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Postby zenas » Nov 19, 2005 6:14 pm

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Postby zenas » Nov 20, 2005 5:54 pm

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Postby zenas » Mar 5, 2006 2:49 am

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Postby Squirrel Girl » Mar 5, 2006 6:55 am

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.
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Postby speloman » Mar 5, 2006 9:02 am

: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.
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Cave of Melidoni - Rethymno, Crete, Greece

Postby zenas » Apr 11, 2006 12:47 pm

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Cave of Melidoni - Rethymno, Crete island, Greece
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From Cave Milatou, Crete Island Crete

Postby zenas » Apr 11, 2006 1:00 pm

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From Cave Milatou, Crete Island, Greece
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From Cave Antonof, Ano Voula, Athens, Greece

Postby zenas » Apr 11, 2006 1:08 pm

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Hellenic Speleological Society Expedition
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Postby Phil Winkler » Apr 11, 2006 1:15 pm

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)
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Postby zenas » Apr 11, 2006 1:25 pm

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.
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Postby zenas » Apr 12, 2006 10:22 pm

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International Congress Of Speleology, August 2005, Athens, Greece.(from the closing day)
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Cave Spilaio Sfendoni, Crete Island, Greece

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Cave Trypa tou Sfendoni, Crete island, Greece
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Postby Ralph E. Powers » Apr 15, 2006 8:50 pm

That does it! I'm saving up my dimes and nickles and going to Greece!

Truly very awesome photos... thanks much for sharing!
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Postby zenas » Jul 11, 2006 11:38 am

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Cave Eptastomo, Parnassos Mountain, Central Greece
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Postby zenas » Mar 15, 2007 5:16 pm

Caving in Crete island Video (Slideshow)
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