Santorini was the most amazing place I have ever been. We left our Athens International Youth Hostel at 6:00am on Tuesday morning and took the metro to the port where we caught the four hour ferry to Santorini. When we arrived, we took our hotels shuttle to Hotel Perissa, where the black sand beaches were! The first day we relaxed by the pool all day and then walked into town for dinner. We were so tired from not getting very much sleep, that we went to bed right after that and got more sleep that night than every night in Athens combined. The next morning we took a bus back to the port, and got on a sailboat that took us to an island that is the last active volcano in Greece. We climbed up to the crater, and could feel the steam coming out! Next, the sailboat took us to a hotspring and we got to jump off the boat and swim in it! Then we spent a few hours in Thirasia, where we had lunch. I had the most amazing moussaka, it's my new favorite Greek dish! It's a potato, eggplant, and meat lasagna type thing. The sailboat dropped us off in Oia, which is another city in Santorini. We rode donkeys up the cliff to the beautiful town, it was terrifying! You would not believe the pictures I got, this city is where a lot of famous photos from Greece are taken, it was incredible! Oia is famous for their sunsets, so we got desert at a place that overlooked the sunset! We met some new friends on the tour, two from Australia, one from Korea, one from New York and one from Philly, meeting so many people from all over the world has been one of the best parts about this trip! The next day, Sarah and I left our little town of Perissa for Fira, a more lively city 20 minutes north. We were waiting for the bus to pick us up when our new Australian friends rode by on their rented ATV's and picked us up! We rode 20 minutes on the back of their ATV's with all of our bags! In Fira, we checkend into our hotel and then explored the city. We bought 2 euro gryros and a sangria and hung out at two brothers bar for a few hours before going back to our hotel. The next morning we went to the travel agency to book our ferry tickets out of here, and ran into our Australian friend again, they are everywhere! He let us borrow his ATV for the day, so we didnt have to rent one like we had origionally planned! Sarah and I cruised along the black each, and rode out to the red beach where we had to hike to see the red sand and swim! It was incredible, I would move to Santorini in a second! We left this morning on a ferry to Athens, then took a bus to Patra, where we are currently waiting in an internet cafe for our midnight ferry to Venice Italy! I know I will come back to Greece someday...I absolutely loved everything about it and I think I could easily spend the next 5 weeks here, but I am ready for Italia!