Everything is beautiful on this island in spring when nature comes to life and the earth awakens. The island is upon the migrant routes of many birds moving from the warmer climates to the cooler ones of Northern Europe in spring, and back again in autumn.

A flood of colourful flowers - red, yellow, purple and pink - descends unstoppably from the mountaintops filling every ridge, slope and valley. Birds traversing the sky come from far off places and rest here before continuing their long trip north.

The island’s coastal areas constitute inportant resting and feeding stations during the migration of a large number of bird species.

Samothrace is very green, covered in lush vegetation. The dominating trees on this island are the olive, oak, chestnut, maple, bush cedars and plane-trees. Samothrace may perhaps be the only island in Greece with such vast plane-tree forests. Bushes covering the island are mastik trees, nettles, arbutuse, myrtles, wild pear trees, wild rose bushes, wild vines and varius others.

Samothrace is rich in water, with hundreds of small streams and brooks with gurgling water coming from mount Saos and rudhing to the sea.

The forests which beside the rivers are mostly made up of plane-trees (Platanus orientalis), oleanders, ferns, withes and mint also grow on the river banks.

The arrow-shaped solid mountain block with ravines, gorges and steep slopes crosses the island from NW to NE, giving Samothrace its uniqueness.

Beautiful, tall, imposing summits are formed: Feggari, the highest summit towers at an altitude of 1670 m in height, was known as Shaos or Saoki in ancient times; Prophitis Ilias, Agia Sophia, Agios Georgios all have special attractions for mountain climbers.

It is to the mountain of Samothrace that the author of "Souls of Samothrace", K. Assimakopoulos refers to thus: "Samothrace mountain is the highest in the whole sea. It seemsto touch godand when nights shine, the moon forgets itself on its summit. For this its top is called Feggari (moon). It takes courage and endurance to climb its ravines, and if you make for an open saddle, the winds blow so strongly that you are brought down. Not a branch stands upright there, just cliffs and rocks".

The path which leads to the mountaintop of Feggari starts just outside Therma. With three and a half hours of normal walking one can enjoy the unique view and natural surroundings of Mount Saos.

It is especially in the area of the Feggari summit that the endemic plants, Alyssum degianum, Potentilla geoides ssp. halacsyana, Herniaria degenii, and other rare species like Enysimum orizontale, Symphyandra Samothracica etc, grow.