Thermopylae

On our way from Kalambaka (the city where we stayed a night after Dodona and Meteora) to Delphi, we made an unplanned stop in Thermopylae. Although there was not really much to see at this site, it was more incredible because of everything that had happened on the ground we now stood on. The battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans followed Leonidas knowing they were fighting to die for Sparta.

It was a strange almost indescribable feeling, imagining the passion and the bloodshed on that very place, thinking of all the Spartan values and all the war strategy we had learned of the Greeks so far...

The monument to Leonidas. Underneath is inscribed in Greek "Come at us!"

All the boys of course stood in front of the monument statue to Leonidas and took off their shirts and made manly noises yelling for Sparta.