Walks to enjoy on the Greek Islands.

Greece Walking Guides for Lipsi, Patmos, Sikinos, Syros, Lesbos, Serifos, Sifnos, Kythnos, Symi, Skiathos, Lefkada, Thassos, Crete, Samos, Naxos, Skopelos, Alonissos, Santorini, Andros, Kythnos, Kos, Paros and Paxos.

Greece's Holiday Islands really do vary enormously not only in their countryside and scenery but also in their variety of food, wine and beaches. If you enjoy getting around whilst on holiday and particularly if you enjoy taking a walk or two then some Greek Islands are excellent because of their paths and moni-paths which are available for walking and hiking. Even close neighbouring islands are often different - for example Alonissos, Skopelos and Sciathos are geographically quite close to each other but certainly are not similar to each other - these three are just right for a bit of Greekk island hopping of course.
Our "Greek Islands Holiday Walking Guides" pages are scattered with descriptive and scenic photos of the areas we visited and walked around so even if you do not like walking long distances the photos do show what an island has to offer for sightseeing and touring perhaps by car or by cycling. The Photo on the right is a beautiful little church amongst the trees and fields in the Amari Valley on Crete.

Alonissos Walks   The Greek Island of Alonissos is a good choice for walking as the island has a good network of paths and tracks many of which are way-marked. We have walking guides for ten walks which might be of interest out in Alonissos's lovely scenic countryside - both circular and end to end described with hiking distances varying around 7 to 14km and mostly starting or ending around Patitiri.

Andros Walks  The Greek Island of Andros in springtime is probably the most scenic island we have been too in Greece - full of streams, springs, old buildings, churches, old ruined mills and wildlife - really excellent for walking and sightseeing. The miles of walled paths and Moni-paths are excellent. There nine Andros walks varying in distance from 6 to 22km - visiting beaches, gorges and monasteries - and nearly always on mule tracks, paved paths and moni-pati.

Crete Walks Crete offers a variety of sightseeing and walking opportunities from beaches to beautiful gorges to mountain tracks, ravines and trails. We have six walks described including walks to Palm Beach and hiking through two of Crete's gorges - Imbros Gorge and the excellent and wild Prassanos Gorge where you do have to think about where you are walking and consider the weather and so on.

Several Walks on Kos Kos is quite a flat island but does have it's hilly bit too located around Pyli and Zia where you can still find some - lets say - typical Greek Island villages, really nice scenery and a little peace and quiet and some nice walks to enjoy.

Kythnos With only a few days on the island we had little time for any extensive walking on Kythnos but there are a couple of short walks described.

Lefkada Walks  Pirghos and the hills The Greek Island Lefkada (Lefkas) is dominated by high mountains which split it in two - there are some really nice walks to enujoy in the mountains especially around the Pirghos area - in the Spring the area is covered with wild flowers and is a beautiful sight.

Agiassos Walks  Petra Walks  Various Lesvos Walks Lesvos - the walking available and the island's scenery are excellent - we walked around 250km whilst on the island over a couple of weeks holiday. There are ten hiking trips described for this Greek Island plus many photos to go with the walks descriptions.

Lipsi There are several fairly short walks described for this peaceful Greek Island - Spring is the time to visit if possible.

Naxos Walks Packed with really beautiful walled paths and moni-paths, pretty villages and excellent scenery the Greek Island of Naxos is a brilliant island for holiday walking.
We have six walks described which you can do on Naxos plus lots of photographs of the island's beaches, coasts, paths and moni-paths, churches, villages and general countryside.

Paros Walks  Nouassa and Coast  Molos - Aliki  Lefkes and Marathi The Greek Island of Paros is perhaps even better than it's neighbour Naxos (just) for the sheer scenery and huge amount of walks available. It is possible to walk round most of the island's coastline visiting all sorts of beaches on the way several of which are nice and quiet and easy to use for naturists. Internally Paros has a lot of moni-paths and walled paths although some have fallen into neglect as they are not used very much which is a shame. We have described nine walks including going to Golden Beach, Aliki, Aghia Arini, some really interesting marble quarries, Tripiti as well as visiting a variety of Paros's churches and monasteries.

Patmos Walks The Dodecanese Greek Island of Patmos - a few walks to enjoy if you are on holiday on the Island.

Paxos Walks Paxos may be a very small Greek Island but it packs in lots of beautiful walking opportunities - beautiful walled paths are available for walkers all over the island and we have described nine walks on Paxos Island all with plenty of descriptive photo - including walks to Trypitos Arch and Geramonachos. There is also a short Anti-Paxos walk detailed to the lighthouse and back.

Samos Walks The walking available on Samos lets you visit beaches and go out on the island's hills where you can find monasteries and see lots of churches. We have created five walks descriptions for Samos which vary between going via countryside and/or visiting beaches.

Santorini Walks The Greek Island of Santorini - Thira is well known for it's amazing coastal scenery particularly by the cliffs at the island's harbour but perhaps less well known is what can be found internally on the island.

Sikinos Walks Sikinos has some excellent mule and moni paths available for anyone who likes really scenic and enjoyable walks - and the mapping available for the island is really accurate.

Skiathos Walks Skiathos has some really lovely wild looking beaches to discover and enjoy and the island's forests are excellent to walk around - though there are not too many footpaths - mostly you have to use dirt tracks.

Skopelos Walks  Our Skopelos walks take you out visiting beaches, several monasteries including the huge monastery at Panormortis, churches and walks out in the forests and hiking up into the hills.

Symi Walks  Vigla Mountain  Vasilio+Emilianos  Chorio Circulars We found Greek Island of Symi (or Simi) to be pretty good for walking - the island is remarkably hilly with what ends up as a huge climb if walking from the harbour, up the Kali Strata and then tackle next even steeper climb to get over the saddle and into the centre of the island. We have nine Symi most circular walks described with distances varying from 5km to 20km.

Thassos Walks Thassos offers quite a few interesting walks to enjoy whilst on holiday including walks via churches and monasteries, a trip up to Kastro and also another hike which takes you past a large working marble quarry.

The above are specific "walks" topic pages for particular Greek Islands on our site however all the islands mentioned plus a few others are also covered on our general holiday topics - the Greek Island Holiday Guides we have are for:
Athens Alonissos Andros Corfu Crete Kos Kythnos  Lefkada Lesbos Lipsi Mykonos NaxosParos
Patmos Paxos Rhodes Samos Santorini Serifos  Sifnos Sikinos Skiathos Skopelos Syros Symi Thassos

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