{"id":13933,"date":"2015-04-29T14:57:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/?page_id=13933"},"modified":"2019-07-04T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T10:01:07","slug":"swimming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Joint Ministerial Decision\u00a0\u039a\u03a5\u0391 23069\/2005 \u00a0(\u03a6\u0395\u039a639\/\u0394\u0384\/14-06-2005), swimming is not allowed in the rivers and lakes of the Northern Pindos National Park. In addition, swimming in the streams inside the Nature Reserve areas of the Park is a violation of both the Vikos &#8211; Aoos National Forest and the he Pindos National Forest Operation Regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Particular attention must be paid from visitors to sub-alpine ecosystems such as the Tymphi and Smolikas Dragonlakes and the Flega Dragonlakes. These lakes are isolated aquatic ecosystems and include important plant communities and fauna species which are in a stable ecological balance over the years. Any human activity, such as swimming, may disturb the ecological balance and impair the quality of the water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-7\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-7\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Activities<\/th><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/vehicle-tours-driving-through-the-park\/\">Vehicle Tours<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/river-fishing\">River fishing<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/hiking-trekking\">Hikking - Trekking<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/collecting-herbs-and-flowers\">Collecting herbs and flowers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/water-sports-rafting-kayaking-etc\">Water Sports (Rafting, Kayaking etc.)<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/mushroom-collecting\/\">Mushroom collecting<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/climbing\">Climbing<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/camping-rvingmotor-caravan-parking\">Camping- RVing\/Motor Caravan Parking<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/photography\/\">Photography<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/lighting-campfires\">Lighting campfires<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/swimming\/\">Swimming<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/skiing\">Skiing<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/activities\/hunting\/\">Hunting<\/a><\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-7 from cache -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Joint Ministerial Decision\u00a0\u039a\u03a5\u0391 23069\/2005 \u00a0(\u03a6\u0395\u039a639\/\u0394\u0384\/14-06-2005), swimming is not allowed in the rivers and lakes of the Northern Pindos National Park. In addition, swimming in the streams inside the Nature Reserve areas of the Park is a violation of both the Vikos &#8211; Aoos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8014,"featured_media":0,"parent":13923,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13933","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16014,"href":"https:\/\/www.pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13933\/revisions\/16014"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pindosnationalpark.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}