Expectations vs Reality: Sunset in Santorini
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- Опубликовано: 11 мар 2023
- Umm about sunset in Oia, Santorini...
It's beautiful.
But if I told you it was this amazingly emotional and romantic experience... well, I'd be stretching the truth for the 'gram. 😬😶🌫️
My pants wouldn't just be on fire. They'd be in the blazing 7th ring of 😈🔥
So I decided to keep it real as usual: I didn't enjoy sunset in Oia. Sure, the whitewashed buildings and blue domes were very beautiful when they were painted orange by the golden sun. ☀️🧡 But the crowds really ruined it for me (and this was SHOULDER season!). 😳
But outside of that super famous, super Instagrammable village, you'll find other less-popular spots in Santorini that also display the same beauty - without the crowds. 🫡
The BEST ways to see the sunset without the crowds?
🌊 Take a sunset catamaran around the caldera
🏨 Splurge on a hotel with your own private terrace
📍 Visit the Pyrgos Village instead
🌋 Watch from Mavro Vouno Hill
🥘 If you really want to watch from Oia, you can also make sure to pre-book a sunset view table at one of the local restaurants
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Just book a hotel with Sunset view Balcony fully private
It is expensive, though.
Pay to play
If you have the money sure do it but for the price I would rather go to Maldives
😂@@Ap_twsh
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I work in Santorini every summer. Depending on where you are, it can be crowded but there are many many spots you can see the sunset in peace while enjoying a nice glass of wine and some finger foods but most tourists just find out at the last moment or they just don't know were to go and like sheep gather around each other at the highest point. If you're too lazy to look around and find a decent spot beforehand, best you ask a local.
This has to be around October, November not the greatest time to see the sunset because of fog and clouds, half the time the weather is also pretty gray , June to mid July is the best time to see the sunset, it's almost heart stopping how beautiful it is. It literarily engulfs everything into a golden light, too bad these tourists didn't do their research, instead of blaming themselves for their lack of research they always complain.
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Great comment 😂
What are these people looking for? Don't they look at the sunset at home? Every day you can look at a new one. It's allways beautifull. Everywhere.
You can see why locals get tired of endless tourism
Tourism is the only economic engine Greece has. But of course tourists should be respectful, like they are here.
Spot on! The timing of music with the crowd 😂😂
From 🎶🎵🎧 to🔉🔊🔉
The sunset is the same. Now, if you go there with a romantic mood expecting to enjoy the sunset with just a few others around, it's not the sunset that's let you down but your own expectations.
This is what happens if you visit in the summer.
...also in October! It was still the same...🥲 I know Santorin since 40 years😥😥😥
This was October!
I’ve been twice before and going again this year. I never understand why everyone has to be in the same place at one time. There is a sun setting every day of our lives 😂
Oia is absolutely stunning with hardly any people at sunrise ❤️
And if your broke can’t afford your private balcony.😂
Still looks pretty to me
Best place to watch the sunset is at the bottom of the tram ride where the cruise ships dock… it’s absolutely stunning and hardly anyone around. Last time I was there, The Genesis cruise ship was parked nearby and the sun was literally right in front of me…. It was like a sign from God. When you view sunset at the bottom, the sun looks so incredibly big and it fades into the bottom of ocean.
From our hotel, the sunset was spectacular and private. Best sunset in Imerovigli, right in the middle of the island.
This is funny because I was Oia, Santorini in August 2023 and we staked out our spot for the epic Santorini sunset and it wasn’t any better than any of the sunsets I’ve seen in my own town.
I actually think I've seen better sunsets in the Caribbean! But it was still super beautiful otherwise to see the golden light on all the domes of Oia. :)
Yeah, because a sunset's beauty is affected by the weather, as well (which is why sunsets usually are better during winter). I've seen some awesome sunsets (far better than the ones on instagram) from my own town too and I just live in a not touristic village in Greece.
Going somewhere for an "epic sunset" is just a tourist trap.
@@sejuanisupportonly7385 you’re right
It still is gorgeous,
The event in Oia isn't the sunset (it's the same everywhere), but the fact that people actually gather in huge numbers to celebrate it. They even applaud when the sun has set. It's the only place in the world where that happens. So crowds is what you want to see there.
Sunset in Greece is everywhere the same!😂😂😂
As a Greek I never understood that phenomenon.
Yup, don’t believe that things are as beautiful as it might seem online or on camera…it’s always the best in real life ❤
I get that view from my window lol
That's why we do the sunset cruise each year when we go much better no fighting the crowd and doesn't take hours to get out the car park
Cruises are horrible tacky mass Tourism
Ayeee me and my wife will be in Santorini at the end of August I can't wait!!!!
Well you can't complain about all the other enthusiastic sunset watcher's if your there for same experience. Just saying 😊
Did I complain or did I just show the experience?
Well I just went with the music. My bad@@marissadaily
Awful now. Used to go many years ago when it was hardly visited. Totally spoilt now for me.
True, below ordinary sunsets too.
If you can do it, the end of May through 3rd week of June or September to 1st wk of October makes a much less harrowing experience. Was there one in early Juslu and ir was like that. Keep in mind if you can walk or take the bus to another cliff village, not far. You can avoid that look. Also, moderate restaurants are available in Fira. Not all are rip-off bc there is competition. Then you can see sunset w less interference if you don't want leave the two big towns.
i.ve benn here once...miss this place so much...im.from bali
Fun fact. The Sun doesn't set or rise and never has or ever will.
Still a nice sunset
Im from santorini
Come in end of April or early May before the tourist season.
Cool
Its still perfect to me
Went there in the middle of summer but we did our research and had a wonderful sunset with a romantic dinner and wine on the top of a beautiful restaurant. Really amazing. You just need to get informed about it and make your reservation in advance. 😉 otherwise you end up standing among the people as it is shown on the video.
Same view, nothing different, Santorini for ever ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This place like a HAFA CAFÉ in TANGIER north of MOROCCO
We just went to a sea-view restaurant and amuse at the sunset while eating
I would rather be watching from a jacuzzi or mini pool back at my hotel
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Not as crowded in Imerovigli! Especially in fall.
Just what you want on a vacation, BEING AROUND 300 OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAD THE SAME IDEA.
Amazing view ❤❤
Like sardines in a can. But the thing is that the masses do things by inertia.
If they would attempt to go all the opposite way around to what everybody is doing in OIA, they would have a very good reason to justify their staying in Santorini and still can wait for the sunset 🌅. ( Or simply skip it)
Omg im in that video
Santorini is like Gucci…… only glamorous to the informed.
Wtf that sound effect 😂😂😂
😂😂😂idk I spent a wk there and it was the most chill experience. but that was yrs before a lot of travel opened back up
No no i am from Greece and Santorini is a very beautiful island !
The accuracy 😂😂😂😂
Much better irl
O melhor de tudo é a música 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Its the same clip
SO it's still a beautiful view, but there's more people so you can't feel special enough?
It's a joke, lighten up!
Exactly what i was thinking, it's a silly video
Real!
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I was there and it wasn’t that bad
Just don’t go in high season simple
Or you can go for sunrise 😃
Super 👍🏼
It's almost the same video, it just shows the crowd standing behind them
😃😃😃 I was in Puerto Vallarta, the sunset at Malecón from the streets was so much fun.. music playing, locals dancing.. 💃🏻
O por do sol do Guaíba da de mil a Zero ao de Santorini
have ppl not seen sunsets
THEY SEEM SO UNHAPPY😂
A WASTE OF MONEY 😅
and they're all taking pics for instagram to show off their lifestyle😂😂😂
You people have to ruin everything. Not even going to bother
No wonder locals are fed up with tourists. We have the same in London. Masses of idiots taking useless pictures
Is it a good view really
Guarma
Yikes 😮
Ive been here before, great veiws but a LOT of walking😅
Just go to a hotel 💀
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Santorini is like Angola in reality 😅
Just stay off the stairs! They are dangerous. Nobody warns you of that.
Ωχ θεέ μου😂😂😂😂😂
Well..¿ life is soo Good!! But only for a Few😢
0 trees
Ehm
Much better in ganpatipule here in india
Oh well, you stay in India then!
I enjoyed much better with sound off
Imma be homest it's still amazing it's just the song that making it ugly
Overpupulation isn't real?
Lmao
😂😂
Too crowded.
lol
😂
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oh hell nah
no more cheap Touristas and social media cheapy's the Airfares had increassed yet 😅😂and travelling will become more relaxter
Go in winted
Yes! Santorini is over-rated
is that Italy?
It’s the mass tourism making it overrated not the place though
Key West sunset is better!
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Use "Santorini, Greece" to avoid confusions😊
Omg horrible 😂
Is this the remake of City of Angels with Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage
Same video is crazy
So overrated…
Too Funny!
That’s why I visited in winter. 😂
These people have a boring life for real
Already in Crossfire Map
Both are the same crappy video.
The second one is just a longer version of it that shows more of the crowded cliffs.
nothing gets past you!
Conned
Waapw