The wild flowers were everywhere. These are Asphodels and they are everywhere.
Notice the ubiquitous Asphodels. The whole mountain is just covered. This is not really a mountain. It is a massive rock that is just off the coast of the Peloponnese peninsula about 50 miles away from Sparta. Even though it's not that far in distance, traveling by bus to it was an adventure. Cecil Stewart, an English Byzantinist, visiting Monemvasia in the mid 1940's wrote about it in his book, 'Byzantine Legacy.' "The rock is about a mile long and six hundred feet in height. This natural stronghold was the last to fall to the Franks and with Mystra it returned to Byzantine dominion; later it fell to the Turks with the rest of the Morea..."
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