Sikinos isn’t an island you visit for enormous organised beaches lined with sunbeds and beach clubs. That’s precisely what makes its coastline so appealing. The island has a mixture of small sandy beaches, pebble bays and isolated coves, many surrounded by the dry, rugged landscape typical of the Cyclades. Only a handful are easily accessible…
Telendos is not an island of enormous sandy beaches and rows of beach clubs. Its appeal is almost the opposite. This tiny, car-free island opposite Kalymnos has small beaches and coves that you reach on foot from the waterfront settlement. Some have sand, others pebbles and stones, and facilities are generally limited. What they share…
Telendos is a tiny, car-free island lying just across the water from Myrties on the west coast of Kalymnos. Although less than a kilometre separates the two islands, arriving in Telendos feels like entering a different world. There are no cars and no road network, and almost everything is reached on foot from the small…
Kastos may be one of the smallest inhabited islands in the Ionian Sea, but it has a surprisingly attractive coastline. The island’s eastern coast contains a succession of small beaches and sheltered coves, while the western side is generally more rugged. Many beaches can be reached on foot, while others are easier to discover by…
Samothraki isn’t a typical Greek beach island. Its dramatic mountain landscape continues all the way to the sea, producing a coastline dominated by pebbles, rocks, cliffs and secluded coves rather than long stretches of developed sand. There is one major exception: Pachia Ammos, the island’s best-known sandy beach. Elsewhere, Samothraki rewards travellers looking for clear…
Samothraki — also known as Samothrace — is unlike most Greek islands. Instead of whitewashed resort towns and rows of beach clubs, Samothraki is dominated by Mount Saos, a rugged mountain rising to 1,611 metres. Forests, streams and waterfalls descend its slopes, forming the natural rock pools known locally as vathres. The island also has…
Kastellorizo isn’t a Greek island you visit for long stretches of golden sand. In fact, that’s one of the most important things to understand before travelling here. The coastline is predominantly rocky, and swimming often means stepping or diving into wonderfully clear water from rocks, platforms and small piers. Greece’s official tourism website specifically describes…
Kastellorizo is one of Greece’s smallest and most remote inhabited islands, sitting at the eastern edge of the Dodecanese close to the Turkish coast. Also known by its ancient name Megisti, the island covers only around nine square kilometres. Yet Kastellorizo packs an extraordinary amount into such a small area: colourful neoclassical houses, a spectacular…
For such a small island, Pserimos has a surprisingly good choice of beaches. Most visitors never get beyond Avlakia Beach, the beautiful sandy bay directly in front of the island’s only village. That’s understandable: you step off the boat and you’re practically already on the sand. But Pserimos becomes much more interesting if you’re willing…
Meganisi doesn’t have the huge stretches of sand found on some Greek islands. Instead, its coastline twists around small bays, coves and secluded beaches surrounded by green Ionian scenery. The island has more than 30 kilometres of coastline despite covering only about 22 square kilometres, and many of its smallest beaches can only be reached…
Astypalaia is one of those Greek islands that doesn’t fit neatly into a single island group. Officially part of the Dodecanese, it lies between the Cyclades and the other Dodecanese islands, and visually it borrows something from both. Whitewashed houses and blue details give parts of the island a Cycladic appearance, while its history and…
Patmos is unlike most Greek islands. It has beaches, whitewashed villages and waterfront restaurants, but its identity is shaped just as strongly by religious history, medieval architecture and pilgrimage. According to Christian tradition, Saint John the Theologian received the visions that became the Book of Revelation while living on Patmos around AD 95. Centuries later,…