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The NorthEast Aegean Greek Holiday Island of Samos has probably got all you could wish for whilst on your holidays - good reliable weather, excellent beaches, marvellous scenery for a day out touring or sightseeing on the island - and the islanders we met whilst out and about were extremely freindly and welcoming.
Samos Island has excellent tavernas with good, simple and in-exspensive food - and equally importantly for us at least has great tracks and paths available for a day's out walking too. There is nothing better than a day out hill and path walking followed by a nice swim and sunbathe on a nudist beach before heading back for an evening out in a freindly taverna.
Kokkari. We stayed for two weeks in Kokkari during June 2000 and really loved the place. It has two stoney beaches and a working fishing harbour which is surrounded by numerous tavernas, bars, shops and lots of alleys.

A really excellent way to finish off a day's walking or beaching on Samos is to take a slow meander around the harbour, eventually spending a few hours eating and drinking some wine at one of the excellent tavernas and then having another meander around - totally relaxing. Kokkari is also a very good start off point for many walks some of which we have described on our walks pages - see below for a page link.

Samos Town lies to the east of Kokkari. The town is split into two in that the "new" part is centred round the harbour and has the usual tavernas and shops, whilst the "old" part - which is called Vathi - is more on the hill, and has the traditional Greek Island narrow winding paved streets and alleys.

Leaving Samos town heading eastwards the road winds up to the M. Zoodochou Pigis.

The road then goes back down to B. Mourtia where there is a small fishing harbour.

On the south coast there is another delightful little village and a harbour at Posidonio - there are several tavernas here - of particular interest is the closeness to Turkey. This is a really lovely little spot to stop off for meandering and of course a drink etc.There is a sandy beach at Psili Amos but the area was crawling with cars and bikes and in the end we gave up trying to get to it. There is a largish lake near here called Alyki Wetland, also know as Flamingo Lake, but there were two problems here, firstly the lake had virtually dried up (we were there in June) thus no flamingos and secondly there were odds and ends of Greek military vehicles around and lots of "no photograph" signs. Somewhat surprising since also there were signs of quite a bit of holiday apartment building going on - suppose one or the other will win out...

Pythagirio is further along the south coast and is very much a tourist town - it has a harbour and plenty of tavernas, shops and accomodation. There is a sandy beach starting here which proceeds along the coast and runs alongside the airport at one point. There is a track alongside the beach which is driveable but this is a dead end (at least it was but who knows what the bulldozers have been up to..). At the other end of the beach is a small fishing village called Ireo - again lots of tavernas and accommodation.

Around a kilometre

heading west out of Kokkari you will see a parking area and taverna at the top of a hill - if you take the steep path down from here you come to a split beach called Tsamadou, the left hand side is for those who are shy and the right hand side is for us nudists who like to globally warm ourselves as much as possible. The beach is composed of heavy pebble, and note these pebbles become very hot bat times - there are chairs and umbrellas available on the beach at a reasonable price plus a small taverna for drinks and so on. Continuing west on the road you pass the junctions for Vourliotes and Manolates (mentioned on our Samos Walks Page) before coming to the fishing harbour of agh Konstantinos - a small fishing village. Towards the end of this village is a side road which leads to the Byzantine Church of Ag Konstantinos. Another small road a little futher out of the fishing harbour leads you to Stavrinades - also mentioned as part of a walk on our Samos Walks page.

Back on the road heading west you pass the church of Agh Dimitrios before arriving at the largish town of Karlovasi and after that Potami. At Potami there is a marked track to the Byzantine church - the track continues past the church and follows the stream inland - apparently this eventually leads to some waterfalls but you do have to swim to get to them.
The road through Potami continues for a little while but then the tarmac surface ends and the road becomes a track - you can park around here and we have another walk giving some info on this on our walks page linked just below

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