ViaMichelin
Vouraikos Gorge
Michelin Guide
Well worth the diversions
Natural site
The Michelin Guide's review
It is more convenient to reach Mega Spileo monastery by car, but the journey by rack railway is more spectacular. The narrow-gauge (75mm) Odondotos takes 1hr 5min to cover the 22km between Diakopto and Kalavrita, crossing the vertiginous Vouraikos Gorge on the way. The train, usually a diesel-electric car, skirts green meadows and climbs gradients of up to 17.5%. It crosses 55 narrow bridges, spans bottomless cliffs and disappears into six Lilliputian tunnels.
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