Deep Mani Road

The wild spine of the Mani finger, threading barren limestone ridges and medieval tower villages down to the southernmost tip of mainland Greece.

From the austere hilltop town of Areopoli the road winds south through the Deep Mani, a peninsula of grey limestone slopes and sparse phrygana scrub. The route passes Vathia — a cluster of centuries-old stone tower houses perched on a barren crag — before descending to Porto Kagio and the road-end for Cape Tainaron, the southernmost point of mainland Greece. Traffic is light outside high summer and the landscape grows progressively wilder and more elemental the further south you go.