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Tiny church route Multi-Cache

Hidden : 3/18/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Combi-cache Tiny church trail

This trail starts nearby the cache Gialasi View.

In the surrounding area of Ancient Epidauros are a lot of small churches. This trail will bring you to four of them. Three of them are at the given coordinates. The coordinates of the fourth church you will find if you answer the questions about the first three churches correctly

All the churches are open and have beautiful wall paintings.

 


Coordinates waypoint 1:

 N 37° 37.997  E 023° 09.706

You have to walk up the hill to this church. You can park your car on the parking place in front of the small theatre. A few years ago archeologists began the excavations here again.

The coordinates of the parking place are: N 37° 38.009’ and  E 023° 09.593

The church is dedicated to the virgin Mary. It’s on the top of the hill of the peninsula where in ancient times the akropolis was situated.

 

Question 1:

On the wall opposite the altar is a wall painting, What is on this wall painting?

Life-giving source  (A=5)

Annunciation  (A=7)

Assumption  (A=9)

 

Coordinates waypoint 2:

N 37° 37.883  E 023° 08.714

This church is situated between the orange groves.

 

Question 2:

To which saint is this church dedicated ?

Agios Dimitrios/ Saint Dimitrios (B=1)

Agios Theodoros/ Saint Theodoros (B=2)

Agios Georgios/Saint George. (B=3)

 

Go from this church back to the main road that leads you out of the village.

 

Coordinates waypoint 3:

N 37° 38.239  E 023° 07.485

 

The church is dedicated to Agios Nektarios. This church is also between orange groves

 

Question 3:

In which year was this church built ?

15-11-2000 (C=7)

15-11-2001(C=6)

15-11-2013 (C=5)

 

Now you can find the last church, where the cache is hidden.

On your way to this church you will drive between the olive groves.

 

If you fill in the correct numbers you will get the correct coordinates.

N 37° 38.(ABC)  E 023° 06.(A+4)(B-2)(C-5)

This church was built on the ruins of an older church and they didn’t cut the tree.

 

In the cache are the following items:
Description of Geocaching in English and Greek
Logbook
Pen
Some trade items

Additional Hints ()

Or pnershy bs lbhe urnq!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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