Volakias mountain

Βολακιας, in its Latin transcription Volakias, is one of the two westernmost 2000ers of the Levka Ori Range, the White mountains of Crete. Like its neighbour Gingilos it towers high above Europe's longest canyon, the Samaria Gorge and thanks to the popularity of the canyon, millions of visitors have seen its east faces from the canyon floor. Though higher and larger than Gingilos, Volakias stands in the shadow of its lower neighbour. Gingilos with its dolomite east face dominates Xyloskalo, the entry point to the gorge so that wfew people even remember the broad top which peeps out behind the vertical Gingilos rock.