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Continue for 20mins down the valley, on the E4 waymarked footpath above the watercourse, to a concrete flat-topped cistern (good water) and a roofless stone hut. A fenced water trough near the cistern operates with a ball-valve device. This is a very remote place; check that it is working, as Koustoyerako villagers will need to know if it is not. Cross the riverbed to rejoin the path as it enters the trees. Old charcoal-making sites in the oak forest, and a kalderimi (paved mule track) that bypasses a drop of large boulders, can be seen on the way down.

After about 3km, at an altitude of 1000m (3280ft), the riverbed turns sharply left and south. This place is called Olisma. Here mature pines survived the 1994 Souyia Valley fire. Still very far below, the valley is glimpsed through the trees. Note Walk 7 from Ay. Theodoros comes in at this turning.

After about 12mins, with the riverbed developing into a ravine, take a kalderimi ascending out of it, left. Follow this old trail over and down to a fenced concrete cistern, a modern stone-built chapel and a dirt road. Here the mountainside is cut to bits by roadworks and Koustoyerako is in sight, still quite far below, under the brow of Ochra crag.