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Day 3: Alftavatn to Emstrur (15km)  Start of the days trek with crossing the river just after our hut (Alftavatn) Woke up around 09.00am, didn't sleep well because it was terribly cold, even inside the hut! Guess I needed to invest more money on the sleeping bag but the tent-coat-boots had taken most of my budget for gear... breakfast and we got ready to go. A lovely couple, Wilma from Holland and Timo from Germany joined us so now we have a great strong team of six people (David from Switzerland, Gilbert and Florence from France, Wilma & Timo and me). Happy before we start our 3rd day of the Laugavegur trek (Photo by Wilma & Timo)  Crossing the first river soon after our hut ( Alftavatn). That days itinerary had many river crossings.  Leaving the river behind us and climbing up towards Hvanngil. The wind started blowing hard on us.  Arriving in Hvanngil we found another hut which we used for a small snack break.   Ha...

Video feature and pictured one of the many highlights of canyoning in Paradise Gate.   The previous day we did canyoning in Stavraetos gorge (link to the post at the end of this post), for today the expectations were higher as we were to do canyoning in Paradise Gate (Πύλη Παραδείσου), always in Tzoumerka (Τζουμέρκα), Epirus (Ήπειρος). We met at 09.30am at the carpark of Syrrako village and went on our way by car, the starting point was around 12km far. View from the car while approaching the starting point. In this canyoning the starting-ending point are not the same but a 10min. drive apart. So we left a car with the dry stuff at the ending point and continued with the rest to the start.  The starting point, a small diversion of the signposted route will take us down to the canyon. Group photo before we start (actually I took a shot before the real group photo as I would have to be there too).   Start of the downhill path towards the c...