From Tolo to Githio there are ca. 200 km. Again we pay attention to pack equally, a very important thing on this tour.

First we lose our way to Agios and soon after in Agios. We wanted to take the old street on the coast, which is shorter, but we missed the inconspicuous branch point in Nafplio. Again on the right street in the south, we find a good street after Mili cruising along the coast. The planner of the street must be a motocyclist by himself! Curve follows curve, and you seldom have the opportunity to make a hasty glance over the sea.

In the little towns you find to yellow lights blinking alternately. Below a box, reminding a radar. If it is really one or it is not, we didn't want to find out.


In Tirosapounakeika we make a stop on a little petrol station, where the way on the toilette, leading in the cellar, was very interesting. We discover, beside a Transalp and a brandnew Hyosung a very old BMW. She has no tachometer (you need one in Greece?) but a very new battery and seems to be ready to start.

We follow the street and come to Leonidio. The mainstreet through the town is single lane in the center. No traffic lights, no mirror. We carefully bring our bikes round the corners of the houses. Better to have a bike than a camping trailer in this place!

At the end of the town we find a parking place on the left side. We stop and enjoy the view over the little town. Up on the hill we hear the traffic noise from the new street for trucks and dangerous goods.

Cautiously we enter the valley. The the lane is anti-skidding, but big road holes constrain us to reduce our speed. In front of us: four caravans. They protect us from potential oncoming traffic.

First it goes downhill. On our left side, there is a battlemented stonewall. Below the dry riverbed of Dafnon.

About 16 km before Kosmas the street rises up the hill. The battlemented stonewall, a psychological help, isn't there any more. Somewhere high above our heads, there is the abbey Moni Agiou Nikolaou Sintzas, but we focus our attention on the street. The air becomes cooler. Our leather-jackets are very comfortable.

Because of the damages on the side, sometimes the roadway becomes so tight, that only one car can use the street. But always you find in the middle of the lane two yellow stripes. The curves reduce, finally so tight, that only two Motocyclists are able to pass by - if they drive straight.

After the abrupt U-curve, we find a place for a rest and where we can look at the mountains. Far down the valley of the river; all round us the impressive puce Parnon-mountain chain.


After the stop we continue to climb up. On the hill, it becames more plane, the curves sustained and the holes in the street deeper. But the highlight of the day is still waiting for us: the entry of Kosmas. The houses are standing very close. The slope of the street could be about 30 %. Our street bikes hop down the anti-skidding made concrete. You must expect cars coming the other way. Finally we park our bikes in the middle of the square beside the church.

We take a coffee in one of the four tavernas and try to get down the adrenalin. This street you should only drive if you are a good motobiker, if the weather is good and you have a lot of time.

"We can pay in Euro here?" Rudi asks. The little town Komas looks dreamy and incommunicado from the rest of the world. It seems only to consist of square, church and some houses. We ask ourself how they get food? Only in little cars?

We prepare to drive down the mounten on the other side, awaiting, that the street is also demandig like the up-hill one. After some meters up to the "mainstreet", the lane becomes larger, so that two cars can pass by on each side. Our nerves and the motors of our bikes are allowed to recreate. This street is the umbilical cord between Kosmas and the rest of the civilisation.


After the cool air in the mountains, the heat of the afternoon in the plain twice as hot. We wish to be in Githio soon. In Githio, we know there is an internet-café and there are some camping places some kilometers outside of the town.

Unsere Griechenland- und Thailandreisen: 1999 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 selbst gefahren und erlebt von den Betreibern der Bikerwelt, Tjaky und Rudi www.bikerwelt.at Impressum