Life's An Adventure: Lycavittos Hill

Following the wet and cold night, the next day was beautiful and sunny which meant another opportunity to go sightseeing!

Lycavittos Hill is the tallest of the 7 hills found in Athens. It has a 360 view of the city with a cute little church and restaurant at the tippy top. The hill is climbable or you can supposedly take a funicular to the very top. This however, proved to be extremely difficult for us to find……Our plan was to walk to the bottom of the hill and then take the funicular up which I’ve read takes 2 minutes. We reached the bottom of Lycavittos successfully but then we didn’t know where the funicular was. It’s a huge hill so we didn’t know what part we should be heading towards. We walked one way and figured that there would be signs and we can just follow that. That proved to be a no! We found a trail but we thought that it was a trail that led you all the way to the top. We’ve walked so much around Athens since we’ve gotten here that we really didn’t want to continue doing that….There is also a theatre located on the hill and we did find signs for it so we headed in that direction hoping the funicular would be located some where around it. No such luck.
We ended up asking the police where to go and they told us that we would have to basically walk to the other side of the hill for the funicular. So we started in that direction and kept walking. We ran into another group on the hill and we asked them if they knew where the funicular was and they told us that we had to head back in the direction that we came and follow the road. So we did as we were told and headed towards the road. We followed the road and then got stuck at a split. We were able to flag a taxi down and ask them which way we needed to go. He pointed in the left direction and we were on our journey once again. We found signs again for the theatre which headed up stairs. We decided to take a look and we found ourselves at a parking lot. There were a handful of people here so we thought we were getting close. Not wanting to walk anymore on our own unless we were sure that we would find this damn funicular, my friend Mari and I spotted a group of police officers. We walked over, asked them our question and received interesting news……We had basically reached the top!!! He said that the only way to get to the top now was to walk up stairs. Tired and sweaty, we trekked our butts up those steps and got a view all worth walking for....