Evaluation: This hike is one of the most beautiful you can make on the island of Kímolos. By following really nice trails it brings you to the north-western interior, first by the same path which also leads to the rock of Skiádi, then further to the tallest hill of the island, the Paleókastro (364 m), and finally until above the bay of Agióklima. It is difficult to go down to the beach itself, but the trails and the curious phenomena of erosion make this hike worth a maximum of ****.
[The translation of this walk was made with some help of Google translate - so, do not mind the mistakes...]

Estimated time: It takes 35 minutes to walk up to Agii Anargyri, then the stretch with the gravel road and a beautiful trail up to the bifurcation with the paths to the Skiádi and the Paleókastro, still lasts half an hour. Finally, the walk to the north and to the bay of Agióklima takes an hour – the total actual walking time (AWT) of the way out thus amounts to 2h05.
The way back lasts as long, so that the total AWT amounts to about 4h15.
We picnicked near our turn, with a beautiful view of the coast, and we walked from 10.30am until 6.30pm - so a total time of about 8 hours, as usual double of the AWT .. .

Route description: (0h00) You depart from the heart of Chorió, from the beautiful little square with the long name: Platía Ikonómou Spyrídonos Ramfoú, the "Kámbos", the Field, in popular speech. You stand next to the kafenío "O Kambos" and you take, with your back to the little church with the blue vaults, the Agios Spyrídoon, the main street, on the left of the white chapel – this street runs towards the north. 

The platía or Kámbos, the central square of Chorió.

In this way you pass the iatrío (the clinic) and some shops. On the square with a well you keep to the right, and you continue in the main street. You pass the bakery, a greengrocery, and another butcher, next to the church with a blue dome of Papadí and Theoskepastí . You then arrive at the post office and the OTE-aerial, with straight across the small pantopolío of Kikí Marináki.

The grocery shop or pantopolío of Kikí Marináki.

You continue straight ahead, you keep to the left and after some 7 minutes you arrive at a heavy electricity pole with a hiking sign on the left, pointing to Paleókastro and the Skiádi.

The hiking sign to Paleókastro and the Skiádi.

(0h07) You take a left and already after one minute you see the beginning of a paved monopáti, which soon turns into concrete. You go down on the left, into a bed of a river; you then take a right, into the small valley, on a concrete road between walls. After one minute, near a tree, the road leaves the valley on the left (there is a white arrow) - if you followed this indication, you should follow the road that destroyed the old monopáti to Agii Anárgyri.
However, you go RIGHT for a short while, to a concrete bridge; you walk on the left-hand side of this bridge and then you take the trail on the left of the concrete retaining wall of a house (blue dot). This trail continues between walls, into a little valley: it is very stony and runs in a kind of shallow bed. Another 5 minutes later, at the corner of a vineyard, you keep to the left. The path becomes rocky and after a short while also stony; the bed becomes narrower and it runs between walls. Where the river bed divides, you can follow the right bed or take the small path that leaves the bed going straight, which is easier. This trail continues on a field, but joins the bed a little further.

 (0h24) You go up gradually between red-brown walls and keep to the left a little later; for a moment you can already notice Agii Anárgyri in front of you.

The monopáti to Agii Anárgyri.

You go up steeply now, but before you reach the highest point, after about 6 minutes, you should have a look behind you: you can see the village of Chorió with on the left the hill ridge of Xaplovoúni with the mills, and the island of Polýaigos behind it; in front of you there is Agii Anárgyri, with on its right-hand side the monastery of Profítis Ilías.  

Looking behind you, in the direction of Chorió.

For a short while you descend into a little valley; you keep going in the same direction all the time. Then you go up until you reach the gravel road coming from Chorió. Straight across there is a water tank for animals and drinking troughs with the date of 1934. You take a right and a little further you pass the restored little church of Agii Anárgyri – it is closed.... 

The "restored" chapel of Agii Anárgyri.

(0h36) You continue straight ahead on the white road that remains rather wide and made out of gravel. You pass a first side-trail off the left (this trail crosses the entire valley and it then continues to some peculiar rock formations – see the hike to the Sklávos), and then you pass a kind of shelter and another side-trail off the right. A couple of minutes later there is another side-trail off the right – it runs between walls to the chapel of Agios Vasílios (piquet Geowalk 5). You keep going straight ahead on the main road, though (there is a blue arrow pointing straight ahead), but after another 2-3 minutes you notice another gravel road tp  the left – this road replaces a nice path that would bring you to the Profítis Ilías, see the hike to the Profítis Ilías. Also this time you continue straight ahead (sign Kapéllo / Kástro); after another 5 minutes you pass a nice path off the left, but also this time you keep going on the main road (blue dot) – a little further this main road runs between two boulders (white letters “Kapéllo 100 m left).

The main road to Paleókastro and the Skiádi.

(0h54) Some 2 minutes later you find a little road off the left (white arrow and inscription "Paleókastro / Skiádi + Geowalk 5): over here you have to leave the main road – still in 2010, a beautiful path started here, but again the bulldozers did their job and the monopáti was destroyed by the construction of the gravel road, why??
Only 4 minutes later, the old path finally begins and for the following 9 minutes you walk on a great and almost flat trail, which is paved on a couple of places, but usually it is flat and made out of gravel. In the beginning you have a magnificent view on the strait between Kímolos and Mílos, with Pollónia on the left and more to the right the white strip of the beach of Sarakinikó. On your left you notice a really beautiful valley and then you walk underneath the summit of the Sklávos, with high up on the right the radar reflector. After exactly 10 minutes you get to a junction: a blue arrow points to the right and to the left; in 2010, there was also a hiking sign, but it has disappeared... – the trail on the right continues to the Paleókastro.

[For the walk to the Skiádi, see the hike Chorió - Skiádi - Mavrospília - Agios Pandeleímonas - Chorió.]

The hiking sign to the Skiádi and the Paleókastro.

(1h04) You thus take a right: the trail ascends gradually and your progress is easy - the pavement is sometimes very beautiful.

The nice path continues towards the Paleókastro.

This has to be a very old trail, because sometimes you can even see some little gutters in the middle. After 7 minutes, you keep to the left on a stony slope, and 2-3 minutes later, you pass 2 small white buildings, located on a pass. You climb again until you arrive, after a total of 17 minutes, next to a little stable and in front of a sinking before the next summit, with a deep valley on your right. The panoramic view is really fabulous: Mílos on the left, with the very clear site of Sarakíniko, Antímilos to the right, and the Paleókastro in front of you, with on its left the vague island of Sérifos and on its right  the island of Sífnos and the small island of Kitrianí (on the right of Sífnos).