Car Hire Kefalonia Airport

Kefalonia is the largest of the Ionian Islands in Greece at the end of the Gulf of Patras with nearly 700 square kilometers. Today, about 40,000 people live in Kefalonia, which has experienced a strong immigration in the last ten years. The residence island is tourist fully accessible without but is crowded. Starting in October, many Greeks from the space Athens here make vacation.

Kefalonia is the island of myths and legends. According to legend it should be same, identical with the island mentioned in the Odyssey, which once belonged to Odysseus himself. It converts continue in the footsteps of Homer's coming on Kefalonia inevitably in the mystical-seeming stalactite cave in the Centre of a beautiful Lake located, close to Melissani. Once, she should have served as a place of worship for the ancient pan. The place is unique, but not only in esoteric terms but also in scientific point of view, he is a natural phenomenon. Over 16 km uphill here flows the water. Even Heinrich Schliemann, who became known as the discoverer of Troy, convinced 1868 the contravention against all laws of nature fact. The grotto, is ideal to reach with a rental car and the best time is at noon, when the Sun at its zenith, and flooded the cave with its light.

However, Kefalonia boasts beautiful beaches. Especially the Pebble Beach of Myrtos in the Northwest of the island is worth mentioning here, especially since he was elected recently to the most beautiful of its kind worldwide. You can find sandy beaches, however, in the southwest of Kefalonia in Lixouri. On the coast of Zakynthos you encounter even the endangered monk seals.