Chios Travel

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What is unique about Chios? Yep, the mastic!

Chiostravel

If you ask the locals for a unique souvenir of this lovely Island, I promise you everyone will recommend you the same thing: Mastic! The chiots are very proud of it alright, but they also have reason to: From chewing gum over body lotion until glue (I’m not kidding!), Mastic is a real allrounder and can be used for literally everything. Especially the south of Chios is full of tiny Mastic trees and the villages there are generally called mastic villages, because their economy is mostly based on the cultivation, harvesting, production of different products. The local people there are […]

Rocketwar!

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It is difficult to tell how and when the “Rocket War”-tradition started in Vrontados. Today there are many different versions of the story. We will tell you two of them. The first version says that it has its origins in the 19th century, when the Ottoman occupiers confiscated the cannons of the locals because they feared that they would be used in a rebellion. So the residents of Vrontados had the idea of using rockets instead. This became the traditional annual Rocket War. The second story states that this tradition was born during the turkish occupation. People from the island […]