Top Ioannina Nature and Wildlife Tours

Startlingly photogenic, the Zagori area includes 46 villages and countless stone bridges, making it a photographer’s dream but a researcher's nightmare. Hit the essential highlights on this private guided tour direct from your Ioannina hotel. You’ll visit Monodendri, the Papigko villages, and the Papingo Rock Pools, grab photos of the Vikos Gorge from Aristi Bridge and the Oxya Viewpoint, and see the Stone Forest and Kokkori Bridge.

A tour with a 7-seated 4x4 SUV that crosses the beautiful villages of the central and eastern Zagori and combines the breathtaking view of Vikos canyon with the unique stone bridges that used to connect the villages. It surely is a view that reminds us of the “miracles” that can happen by the human and natural cooperation.

Between the rugged cliffs of the Vikos Gorge and the charming stone villages of Zagori, the countryside around Ioannina offers spectacular views. Savor them on this private guided tour direct from your Ioannina hotel, with lunch included and photos provided. You’ll visit the villages of Monodendri, Vitsa, and Papingko, see the Vikos Gorge from Aristi Bridge and the Oxya Viewpoint, admire the Agia Paraskevi Monastery and the Stone Forest, and more.

Let’s find out how to travel off the beaten path in Central Zagori villages. An amazing viewpoint of Vikos gorge, the stone forest, several villages and lots of stone bridges, an old monastery at the cliffs of Vikos gorge with handmade paintings on wood, a museum of handmade clothes and carpets, single or three arched stone bridges, the longest stone steps route in Greece (1350 approximately and 25 turns) which was the only way to connect villages at the area, while enjoying local recipes or pies under a maple tree and finally a short brake to a monument dedicated to the brave women of Pindos range!!!

Take a Half Day Tour to Papingo from Ioannina, to marvel the Vikos Canyon and visit some of the most characteristic local villages. The village of Papingo is located in Zagorochoria, an area that is in the Tentative Lists of UNESCO Heritage Sites, near the northern end of the Vikos Gorge and is inside the Vikos–Aoös National Park. Vikos Gorge is the largest canyon in Greece and arguably in all of Europe: it is the gorge with the greatest depth to width ratio, according to the Guinness Book of Records 1997. The village of Papingo is surrounded by deciduous forests and topped by the snowcapped Astraka peak of Mt Tymphe, that towers over the village.