Vakóni - Aladinoú - Fállika - Pétrias - Livádia - Chóra |
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Evaluation:
This hike is an alternative to the similar hike that follows the same
paths to Pétrias, but then
it
follows the difficult route to Vrachnoú and down to Chóra (see the hike
Vakóni - Aladinoú - Fállika - Pétrias - Vrachnoú - Chóra). The descent
to Livádia is much easier. Also in this variant, the paths and views are
beautiful. The signposting with
hiking
signs and plaques [18] and then [17a] is again excellent. Deserves the
maximum of ****. ![]() The hiking sign at the beginning of walk [18]. You go down 95 steps, then you continue straight on a small concrete road [18] and you go down a little further on the concrete steps to the LEFT (sign and [18]) – straight ahead, you could visit the source of Skadalórema... You descend about 115 steps between the houses, and then you keep to the left [18] until you reach a second source; to the left, you could walk to a third source and the church of Agia Triáda, but you descend to the RIGHT [18], in the direction of the Káto Vrýsi ("The source from below") [18]: so you go down 52 steps, until that source. Later on, an old paved trail descends along an irrigation gutter and some water pipes until you get to a shaded spot; a narrow cemented path [18] then continues between and next to the houses and a concrete staircase goes up to a small asphalt road, underneath the church of Agia Triáda - a clear sign + [18] points here to the right. (0h10) You follow this road for a little more than one minute, then you descend the white steps to the right - some hiking signs show here the direction of another source, the Chamóvrysi (signs and [18]). You go down to the right, until you get next to a house and descend another 90 steps, down to the asphalt road. You go right [18] and you thus arrive at the bridge of Aladinoú. The bridge of Aladinoú. The old bridge crosses the "Megálos Potamós" ("The Great River"), which has its source on the other side of the island, near the village of Zaganiáris. Downstream, there is thus also the famous bridge of Stichioméni, where the walk [1] that leads from Messariá to the monastery of Panachrántou, passes. The river flows into the sea near Chóra, on the beach of Parapórti.
The bridge of Aladinoú, from the edge of the water. (0h16)
You pass the bridge and
you discover in front of you an old road sign and other
very visible
signs
(Fállika
1 km / Pétrias 2 km / Livádia 7 km): by following the
stairs up to the right, you could
follow the little walk
[18a] to the cave
of Aladinoú,
and possibly to the villages
of Sasá and
Kouréli - see the walk
Aladinoú -
Kouréli - Sasá -
Aladinoú. ![]() The nice path between Aladinoú and Fállika. [It only takes a quarter of an hour to follow the beautiful path [1c] (sign Stichioméni 650 m) and a magnificent staircase in order to reach the bridge of Stichioméni, which is on the route of walk [1].] (0h28) You continue to climb to the right [18]: this trail has been cleared recently, as it was impassable a few years ago! Sometimes it is dug in or it continues along a high wall, later on it has nice steps. After some concrete steps, you still get to the road, but the trail continues straight across [18]. About 3 minutes later, you keep to the left, you cross the asphalt road again and continue just opposite [18]. You arrive on concrete steps between the houses, you continue straight [18] on paved steps, then on many concrete steps again. (0h45) After the culminating point ([18] on a pole), you go down for a short while until near the church; you go up a little bit [18], then you begin a long descent. The nice staircase underneath Fállika. |
The green valley underneath Fállika.
(1h15) About 2 minutes later, you get to the obvious bifurcation between walls: the main path [1] straight ahead goes to Messariá - see the walk Chóra - Ménites - Messariá - Panachrántou and back -, while you should take a RIGHT here ([17a] and hiking sign Livádia 2,4 km / Chóra 4,5 km).
The hiking sign at the bifurcation of paths [1] and [17a]. The first 3 minutes, you follow a beautiful trail between walls, then you reach the edge of the plateau where you descend to the right on a staircase that goes zigzagging down for 11 minutes, with some 460 uneven and sometimes very small steps.
The splendid path back to Livádia.
While descending you see on the left and
in front of you, on the other slope, the trail [1] going up from Stichioméni bridge to Messariá. After a beautiful descent on this old
rocky stairs, you arrive down.
A splendid stretch between nice walls...
(1h37) You cross the water on
stepping stones and you continue to the right on the other side (piquet
[17a]). The grassy path quickly becomes a dirt road that you follow a
little less than 4 minutes down to the water: you remain to the LEFT
water [17a] - you continue a little more than a minute, until you get
again to the road.
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