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good morning
from santorini my wonderful youtube
family
we are here in paradise but uh slightly
struggling right now because i am hiking
586 stairs
down from the top of thera to the
santorini old port there is a cable car
you can take but you know what
i thought i could use the exercise this
morning and then most likely
i will be taking the cable car up but
what we are doing today
is taking an excursion that is going to
take us
across the water here to this
island that is actually an active
volcano for those of you who don't know
santorini was actually formed through a
volcanic explosion
which is why you can see these like
scaling cliffs and
just very different sort of landscape
the explosion happened about 3 600 years
ago
which actually really affected the
minoan civilization in crete
which is one of the oldest civilizations
in the world the island of crete is just
underneath
santorini so obviously when the volcano
exploded it sent
shockwaves to crete and created a
typhoon
which is said to have wiped out a lot of
the minoan civilization
so there really is a lot of history in
this place
and just very different terrain unlike
anything i've ever seen
and also if i remember correctly i
believe
that santorini is actually tied to the
story
or the legend of atlantis
i personally don't know the full story
at this point so i know our tour guide
is supposed to be telling us about it
today so
i'll touch on that later if they do but
yeah we're basically uh going to
hike over to the island we are going to
hike all around the volcanic crater and
then the boat is going to take us
to a neighboring island that has some
natural hot springs
so i am super excited for today i have
never hiked
a volcano so i'm gonna take you guys
along
i hope you enjoy it and it's going to be
an amazing day
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all right guys so we just made it to the
volcano
this is my new friend alex we funny
enough uh met
in ia just a few days ago and discovered
that we were the few canadians
on this island have you ever been to
santorini before no first time in
santorini
first time on a volcano as well exactly
oh my god
it does feel like we are almost
somewhere that just like completely
burned down like it's just like black
ash and rocks
no vegetation and apparently it's still
an active volcano as well so
uh hopefully there's no accidents today
almost feels like we are on another
planet
this dead terrain because i don't see
there's
anything we could possibly eat even
thistles
that is the one tree that we would have
to eat if we were on this deserted
volcano
apparently there's a place that um you
can put your hand
in like where it's close to the warmth
of
the volcano
yeah it is it's that active we are in an
active
volcano
so alex first impression so far this is
amazing you've never seen
anything like this before yeah i think
this must be it this must be like
the holes the craters from
different explosions it's just like all
up and down
sort of terrain
so here we found a chart of all the
different
uh eruptions that have taken place and
by the way uh this volcano is called nia
khamenei
and the last one that happened was in
1950 it looks like but
as you guys can see with every explosion
this whole island began to widen and
take on
different shapes
so in different spots in the island you
can see uh
different instruments that probably are
measuring
the levels of the volcano to make sure
it's safe for people to be
walking around here and it actually
reminded me
in japan how they have such like
high-tech
instruments that detect earthquakes
almost before they happen
so they're able to like stop the speed
shinkansen sort of trains and alert
people
so i imagine it's the same with
volcanoes
apparently there's some kind of like um
volcano trips where you actually have to
wear like
almost firefighter suits with like a
whole mask
it's like so hot on the volcano would
you ever do that
yeah at least today we don't have to
wear
as it was created i guess 70 years ago
it was 1950 when the last one happened
so
whoa this looks like a dark
dark dark chasm look at this you guys
holy hell
i assume that's lava or was lava at some
point
because from my understanding after it
is red then it turns
black and it comes into this sort of
hard rock formation so this must have
been all lava
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all right so we just finished the
absolutely incredible tour
how would you rate that out of ten ten
out of ten definitely ten out of ten but
oh my god my skin
actually feels like i don't know some
kind of thermal spa
or whatever after that swim yeah for
sure you definitely have to be a good
swimmer if you were gonna do it because
like
you couldn't touch the bottom at certain
parts but it was great
so i hope you guys enjoyed this video
alex thank you so much for joining me
today
and uh if you guys come to santorini i
would definitely recommend
the volcano and thermal springs tour
you