Since I was lucky enough to be in Santorini for a second time, I was not going to let this pass me by. The first time I was in Santorini I did not ride a donkey. This was my second time visiting Santorini. “Yes!” I exclaimed, giving him a look wondering how he could ask such a silly question. “You sure you want to do this?” My boyfriend, Tom, had asked while we stood in line. Ten minutes earlier, I was innocently waiting in line to ride the donkeys up the steep cliff to Santorini’s main town of Fira. “Come,” he growls at me as he continues to hold onto the rope of a donkey with a blonde woman being held hostage on it. The old Greek man – or he could be middle-aged and just spent too much time in the sun and frowning, therefore I’ll start referring to him as Angry Greek Donkey Man – I’m following turns and glares at me, his weathered face looking more angry than it had last time he turned and said something in Greek that I believe meant “hurry up” but could just as well have been “haha, I am leading you to your death, stupid American.” They pass me on either side of the narrow path and I breathe a sigh of relief. Please don’t hit me,” I mutter and tense up. I look down at the trail and avoid a fresh pile of manure, then look up quickly as two more donkeys descend toward me. It’s not going quite as I thought it would. Trying to ride a donkey to the top of the caldera to Fira. I momentarily take my eyes off the several donkeys trotting toward me and glance nervously to my right at the ocean and volcano. I am going to die by getting trampled by a donkey.
(Intro note from author: This is a narrative account of my experience riding a donkey in Santorini, which I do NOT recommend doing and wished someone had explained to me before I did so many years ago why you should not ride a donkey in Santorini, which I link to a lengthier explanation of at the bottom of this blog post.) 9 Shares One Day in Santorini, Greece This Happened… Want to ride a donkey in Santorini? Make sure you know what you’re getting yourself into.
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