Salakos
Mountainside spring village where natural pools once served as the local swimming hole.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Salakos, a mountainside village on Rhodes, follows the springs that shaped it, from the pools once used as a childhood swimming hole to the shaded valley walk that climbs beside them today. You'll hear about the endemic gizani fish and the Panaxia butterflies that still gather in the cool air. The walk to the spring passes beneath ficus trees planted in the village square in 1951.
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