EC EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SUMMER PROGRAMS: Samaria Gorge

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Samaria Gorge

Our Hike across the Samaria Gorge today was extraordinary. We started our trek down around 8:00 am and made it to the old village around 1:00. The scenery was beautiful because we were surrounded by enormous cliffs throughout the entire walk. My favorite part of the hike was hopping from rock to rock aver a small river at the base of the gorge. It felt great submerging my entire head into the frigid water. Once we finished the 15 kilometer hike, we visited a black sand beach. Sounds cool huh? Well minus the lava sand, it was a nice refreshment after a long walk.

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EC Eastern Security Studies Program

In the summer of 2011, as the "Arab Spring" was unfolding and the "Eurozone Crisis" was entering its second year, the Emmanuel College Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies Program was established in Crete, as a way to make the location the classroom. Beyond the grand theoretical, historical and political understanding that can be achieved through reading and classroom discussion and exchange, a more immediate, intimate and truer appreciation of the complexities can only achieved by experiencing the cultures, languages of personal interaction.

Since 2012 students have been able to combine an intensive curricular study, with the experience of immersion and living in a local setting. The geopolitical and geoeconomic forces that have acted in the region for centuries, can be identified in the classroom, but they can only be understood by being there. This year's EC EMSS Program will add a fourth week of study, experience and exploration and will also travel to the islands of Rhodes, and Cyprus. In Rhodes we will be partnering with the Prefecture of Southern Aegean and the Aegean University, while in Cyprus we will be hosted by the University of Nicosia.