Not the Samaria Gorge

A couple of days ago I did a lengthy post about the Samaria Gorge. Now, while this is undoubtedly the most famous Gorge in Crete, the Imbross Gorge, which we did a couple of days later, is in many ways much nicer. For one thing it isn't filled with people. Apart from our own party during the four hour walk down the Gorge I saw less than half a dozen other people and for long periods I walked completely alone. We had had an early start and taken a crowded local bus up to the start. Initially the path was almost level, steepening after about a kilometre. The gorge is an easier walk than Samaria and with the sun not yet clear of the mountains it was pleasantly cool. There is also a greater variety of flowers and plants to be seen although Janet, one of the other members of our group, assured me that none of them were very unusual or interesting. As she had been wandering around the whole time with a botany text book I was willing to take her word for it.

Further down, like Samaria, the Gorge narrowed to less than a couple of metres before widening and flattening again in the final approach to the bottom.
Here are a couple of photographs.