Chorió - Livadáki - Pígados - Agios Geórgios and back |
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Evaluation:
This hike takes you
to the beautiful beaches of the north-east of the island and follows all
the time beautiful trails or enjoyable little roads . The white sandy
beach of Agios Geórgios is truly idyllic! Deserves ***. 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 a minimarket, 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.
The hiking sign to the Paleókastro and the Skiádi. (0h07) But this time, you take the little road that leads STRAIGHT towards the small church with a flat roof. Near this chapel, the street continues straight ahead, but you take the small concrete road that descends to the RIGHT of the church. Soon, this road becomes a path paved with round stones, and a little less than 2 minutes later, you arrive at a bifurcation. You descend to the left on a small concrete road that zigzags down, but soon you get to a beautiful trail, wide and with a beautiful pavement, which continues between walls in a pleasant landscape – undulating hills, some chapels, a gentle valley on your left and a winding path ahead of you! The broad path to Monastíria.
A little more than 7 minutes after the church, you descend to into a
small valley on an uneven path - the road that continues straight ahead
leads to Monastíria and Soúfi, see the hike Chorió - Monastíria - Soúfi
and back. A splendid bridge near the beginning of the walk to Agios Geórgios. The small gravel road later becomes a very stony trail that goes up and down rises and falls in a pleasant landscape. After about 5 minutes, you continue on a beautiful trail with an uneven pavement; a little further, you keep to the right while staying on the main trail - now it goes up fairly quickly, in a landscape with many small terraces and beautiful walls. The broad path with its uneven pavement.
Thereafter, the monopáti becomes more stony and at the top, it becomes more
or less a small gravel road. Panoramic view towards the coast. |
The reddish soil...
(0h57)
Pay attention: you do not continue to go down straight ahead, but
you take a RIGHT onto a narrow road, that runs to the left of a wall
crowned by a low fence. At the end of this wall, you step over an
obstacle formed of some bushes and you continue straight. The trail
gradually becomes a gravel track, which descends for 6 minutes until you
get to a white gravel road. In front of you lies the small beach of
Livadáki, hidden behind the reeds -
a small path leads there, but there is no shade. General view of the beach of Agios Geórgios. A truly idyllic sandy beach...
[The road continues, it goes up to the
left to the quarry of gravel and limestone. View on the beach of Agios Geórgios, taken from the little road to the cape.
(1h31) You retrace your steps, all
along the wide bay of Prása - at the end of the bay there is a small road to the
left towards "Iatriká Loutrá / Curative Baths" (road sign). You continue
straight, while you pass again next to the desolate quarries on the left and
right side – and so you pass also the beaches of Pígados and Livadáki.
While descending on a splendid path... The landscape is quiet and peaceful in the evening sun and so you get after 9 minutes to the big bridge. You still need 10 minutes to reach the first houses; then you continue up to the church and finally you always proceed straight ahead until you reach the Platía. (3h03)
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