The Corinthian Canal in Greece

When you go to Athens, Greece, you should make reservations in and around the Acropolis. From that central point, acropolis means the highest and most central part of the polis or city, you can book excursions to such fabled wonders as the Corinthian Canal in Corinthos, of course.

From the attached photograph taken by me when I visited the place in 2000, you can get just a glimpse of the immense chance one takes to trust oneself to a tourist boat that is guided through the canal by a small tugboat.

What is more amazing is that being at the top of the mountain range and photographing the Canal seems the most comfortable, soul soothing thing to do.

There is little to entice a tourist to part with his money at the top of the mountain. A small curio shop offers trinkets with absolutely no pressure to buy anything. One becomes a part of a world that is living with natural wonders as part of their environment.

I did take the tourist boat through the canal, as I remember. I was not in the least bit concerned with massive boulders cut in primordial times to permit us to travel through.

I was visiting Greece with my daughter, and she was amazed at the almost unbearable beauty and wonder of the country of her mother's and her father's origen. For me this was one of many, many trips back to my country of birth, for her it was her second encounter with her heritage. Since that trip she has travelled back at least twice without me, once with her university group and once with her touring group as part of an American student exchange program.

I am of the opinion that visiting the Corinthian Canal in Corinth, Greece, had more of a profound influence on her then did the Acropolis or the still intact Temple of Zeus in Athens.

It is difficult for us as Americans to comprehend the antiquity of such amazing places.

But, the Acropolis for all its unparalled perfection is a human building. The corinthian canal is a work of nature and as such leaves us breathless in the scope of power of nature's work.