Rokka Guesthouse in Elafotopos

Overlooking the plain Pedinon, The Rocca hostel at Deer habitat is not just a nice hostel in Zagori, an exemplary agritourism unit, but especially the house of Lena, Lakis and Kostas. A house that welcomes us and shares its daily life with us.

The day starts with a good breakfast by the permanently lit fireplace (spring, autumn and winter of course) mansion of 1873, a classic example of traditional Zagorian architecture. Breakfast includes milk of the day, fresh cheeses, scrambled eggs and beautiful jams. From there on, one has only to choose which host to follow, because the jobs are divided and every day everyone goes to their post.

Whoever follows him Costas Livestock will have a walk to the herd, milking, feeding and grazing animals in the stable.

Ο Lakis has undertaken agriculture and crops, the sowing of wheat, lentils but also their harvesting and harvesting.

For those who want to "move" inside the hostel can help in the production of food. That's where the command is Mrs. Katina, the mother of Kostas and Lakis and mother-in-law of Lena. Here they can beat the milk into butter, knead the bread, make yogurt, cheese or with whey to make instant mizithra or even deep-fried mutton kavourma, or make trahana from sheep's milk and whole wheat.

Of course, in the kitchen one can also watch their cooking traditional dishes served by the fireplace.

Later, upstairs, one can visit them traditional looms of Lena and to be introduced to weaving and the creation of woolen fabric with the ancient technique of felt with unique tools his hands, while in the workshop he can see all the stages of hair processing: carding, spinning with rocket and peach, vegetable dyes with plants from the surrounding nature.

The Rokka guesthouse in Elafotopos, a simple and unpretentious guest house five rooms with many scales of views and actions await us. And as the 'kids' typically say on their beautiful website rokkazagori.gr:

"In Rocca you will not find luxury facilities, but simply luxury hospitality!"