Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Information
Plateia Eleftheria has ATMs.
Medical Centre
( 23520 22222; Plaka Litohorou)
About 5km away, at the Litohoro turn-
off from the main coastal highway.
Municipal Website
(
www.litohoro.gr
)
Police
(
23520 81100; cnr Ithakisiou & Agiou Nikolaou)
Post Office
(28 Oktovriou 11)
Tourist Information Booth
(Nikolaou;
9am-6pm)
In a white building with wooden
eaves, just before Ithakiou.
Getting There & Away
From the
bus station
( 23520 81271; Agiou Nikolaou)
, buses serve Katerini (€2.30, 25
minutes, 13 daily), Thessaloniki (€8.50, 1¼ hours, 13 daily) and Athens (€33, 5½ hours,
three daily via Katerini). Buses from Thessaloniki to Volos/Athens leave you on the
highway to catch a Katerini-Litohoro bus.
Litohoro's train station, 9km away at Plaka Litohorou, is on the
Athens-Volos-Thessaloniki line.
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Around Litohoro
Mt Olympus
MOUNTAIN
The cloud-covered lair of the Ancient Greek pantheon, awe-inspiring Mt Olympus (Ορος
Ολυμπος), fires the visitor's imagination today, just as it did for the ancients who vener-
ated it. Greece's highest mountain, Olympus hosts 1700 plant species, some rare and en-
demic. Its slopes are thickly forested with different deciduous, conifer and pine trees, its
peaks often shrouded in fog.
The first known mortals to reach
Mytikas
(2918m), Olympus' highest peak, were Lito-
horo local Christos Kakalos and Swiss climbers Frederic Boissonas and Daniel Baud-
Bovy, in August 1913. Olympus became Greece's first national park in 1937.
Although you can drive up Olympus, most people hike; consult the Litohoro-based
hiking associations for maps and current conditions, or check online with the grandly
