Sites & Sounds: Amorgos Icons Trek

The longest walking route on Amorgos, the 3-hour-30-min old-mule-track, the "Megali Strata", from Potamos in Aegiali to the Chosoviotissa Monastery, filmed on the first Sunday after Easter, when the traditional "Procession of the Icons" pilgrimage takes place.
Icons, pilgrims, monks, the clergy and the lay, churches, chapels, ruined ancient towers, hamlets, stone-huts, wells, cisterns, rock-graffiti, mule tracks, mules, donkeys, goats, sheep, birds, terraces, dry-stone-walls, vinyards, limekilns, phrygana, the botanical paradise of spring flowers, disintegrating conglomerates, vertical limestones, and the Big Blue, put to the soundtrack of church-bells, goat-bells, bird-songs, Easter hymns, careless footsteps and careless chatter.




@00:14 Potamos village
@03:46 vaulted underground cistern outside Potamos
@05:40 chapel Agios Mamas and view over Nikouria islet
@07:20 Ekso Meria hamlet
@09:00 Asfondilitis rock-graffiti [dating back to the first quarter of the 20th century CE]
@10:40 Asfondilitis hamlet
@13:00 view over Agios Pavlos and Nikouria Islet
@13:40 I saw barefoot pilgrims following the 2005 Icons Procession
@14:10 Agrilas hamlet
@15:40 view over the ancient tower at Richti
@15:45 Vorini Splilia caves
@16:05 ksenodochio
@17:10 Kapsala area, limekiln
@18:40 Chosoviotissa [photographing inside strictly forbidden!]

Filmed with a [SONY DCR-TRV520] handheld digital camera, on the first Sunday after Easter 2006.
Video captured using SONY Vegas Pro v.8 on my desktop.
Edited using Adobe Premiere Pro v.1 on my laptop. Original footage was 24min, then trimmed down to 20min (!). My approach was cut-to-cut, time-linear [did not change the original order of shots, though I used fades and overlaps in audio here and there]. No effects used, except for a Kjaerhus Limiter on the Master, to keep the bells' peaks down at -2db.
Used Windows Movie Maker to convert the exported .AVI file to .WMV for UTube upload. It took just under 4 hours to edit and an extra couple of hours to convert and check results.

Want more infos about this route? Check out an earlier story of mine about walking on Amorgos: http://reocities.com/Colosseum/2252/amorgos.html [scroll down to "Walk Two: Aegiali-Chosoviotissa-Chora"]

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[hajwing]

i really like this as am thinking of going to Amorgos. am looking for an island with good walking but not touristy. this looks ideal.