I found Atlantis!
I saw its vagabonded foundations, touched its old columns and I wandered its lost streets. The magic place is located on the peninsula
Akrotiri, not too far away from
the airport of Chania, between
Chorafakia and
Stavros. The huge areal
spreads in the burning mediterrean sun over dozens of acres: abandonded,
rotten, dirty, overgrown. But one can still see the structures of the bold idea, that was behind this compound: to build another
waterpark like
Limnoupolis on Crete, barely 30 kilometers away from the
original.
The guy, who planed this waterpark "Atlantis",
son of the owners of a nearby hotel in Chorafakia, wasted lots of
time, effort and money from the bank to make his vision come true, but
still failed: His waterpark never ran. That was about ten years ago. The
ruins of his dreams may not last as long as the
historical mansion, I
explored last autumn. But long enough to witness this guy's personal
Greek dilemma. (28 pictures)
