Chimaera

In the last post, I kinda forgot to mention what exactly Chimaera is. Up above the small beach town of Olympos, Chimaera is a hill which has a large number of naturally occurring flames, caused by some kind of methane based gas seeping out of the ground and bursting into flame due to the pressue loss (I believe). What's amazing is that these flames have been burning for a few thousand years apparently...never ending flames.

We did a night hike upto Chimaera while in Olympos and it was pretty amazing to see these natural flames all over the hill side. It was good to get a little exercise in the hike up the mountain, after being on the boat doing nothing for several days.