Aug-2005/Aug-2006: Documentary movie "Traditional Oil Wrestling in Rodope: Chilia and Alantepe".

All these photographs are screen shots from the next videos. In these videos there is a remake of the videos of the previous post and I added also videos from Chilia oil wrestling.

Part 1/3: Aug-2005 Chilia.

Part 2/3: Aug-2006 Alantepe.

Part 3/3: Aug-2006 Alantepe.

The next days I will be traveling in the Balkans (Former Yugoslavia: Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia) and when I will be back I will try to give a link with the full DVD version of the above videos if somebody wants to download it (here the quality of the video within the youtube is bad). As you see, in the videos everything is in Greek language ;-). When I will find some time I will add also English subtitles for the non-Greek audience of this blog ;-).

7-Aug-2005, 26-Aug-2006: Traditional oil wrestling, Rodopi, Greece.

The first photo is from 7-Aug-2005 from the traditional oil wrestling in the region of "Chilia" in Rodopi. The rest of the photos are from the traditional oil wrestling in the region "Alan-tepe" in Rodopi 26-Aug-2006. During August in the region of Rodope, there are 2 events of wrestling.. the first in the beginning of August in the region of "Chilia" and the other, at the end of August in the region of "Alan-Tepe".

It is not a turistic attraction and mostly people for the near-by villages are visiting these events.

26-Aug-2006: Traditional oil wrestling, Rodopi, Greece.

These photos are from the oil wrestling tradition that that takes place in north of Greece in the mountain region of Ropodi. In this wrestling the tradition is that wrestlers are daubed with oil. In this spectacle there are participants not only from Greece but from many countries of the Balkans (ie. Turkey, Bulgaria etc). In the next post I will publish some photos from the wrestlers, wrestling.

04-Apr-2007: Pomac bee-keeper, Ano Birsini, Rodopi, Greece.