Estimated time: The way out to the beach of Elleniká will cost you about one hour and a half (AWT). The return road takes a little longer, so the actual walking time is something like 3h15. Including all of the pauses and a long picnic and swim break, we hiked for 6-7 hours – from 10.30am tot 5pm. 

Route description: (0h00) Just like for all of the other hikes you have to leave from the Kámbos. This time you take the little street on the left of the row of houses with the kafenío and the kámara (a vaulted passage). This street goes up and it runs on the left of the Byzantine church of Ioánnis Chrysóstomos. 

The platía or Kámbos, the central square of Chorió.

Agios Ioánnis Chrysóstomos.

You follow the first signposts to the "archaeological museum”, you thus walk on the right of the kástro and then you proceed straight ahead. You pass underneath a small, vaulted passage, you go straight ahead (not to the right) and then straight ahead once more when you reach a crossing. You thus arrive at a side-street, where you take a left. This street gets to a concrete road – exactly at the point where the road describes a curve – and over there you go straight ahead again (this is in fact the road to Alykí).
You walk underneath two ruins of mills and you continue on the main road, also when, after about 7 minutes all together, you notice a small road going up in front of you. On your left you can see the harbour of Psáthi, with on its left-hand side the height with on top of it the "Mýlos tou iatroú", the "Mill of the doctor". 

(0h10) You pass a narrow street and then you go up the second street on the right, at a house with a double blue gate and a lot of cacti. Immediately thereafter you turn left and then you keep going straight ahead, climbing slightly – you do not mind the two side-streets on the right. After a couple of minutes the concrete turns into gravel. You reach a crossing where you still go straight ahead and after some 5 minutes you pass on the left-hand side of a simple chapel with a flat roof. Watch out now: some 3 minutes further down you have to leave the gravel road to the left and take a beautiful trail going in the direction of a similar simple chapel. You descend into a nice valley filled with cacti, you then go up again and you continue straight ahead, between walls. You walk towards the chapel, without minding the two side-roads off the left.

The path to Dékas.

(0h37) You walk next to the chapel of Agios Pandeleímonas: it is open and from the terrace behind it, you enjoy a beautiful view on the islands of Polýaigos and Mílos.

Agios Pandeleímonas.

From here, the monopáti has been replaced by a little dirt road; after another 3 minutes you keep to the right. You descend into a small valley and you get to a bed of a river, on the right of a tall wall. You keep to the left twice and in this way you go up, leaving the bed again. After another 2 minutes you arrive at a curve of a white gravel road, where you take a left.

(0h45) This really pleasant gravel road gets to a wider gravel road after some 9 minutes. You take a left for about 10 metres and in this way you get to an asphalt road, which you follow to the right for some 100 metres – past a remarkable little rock house, built between strange rocks with behind it a lot of cacti.

A remarkable ruin on your way to Dékas...

(0h57) About 100 metres further down you go right on an ‘improved’ gravel road, which you will have to follow for some 19 minutes. After a little over 12 minutes you keep to the left – you are now walking through a pleasant hilly landscape with also some agriculture. After another 6 minutes you reach the sign "Dékas" and the road runs to a dead end. Via the dunes you arrive at the really beautiful beach. The bay is shallow and in front of you, you notice the little island of Agios Andréas – this is a great place to have a swim.

The beautiful beach of Dékas.

(1h17) You follow the waterline along the entire beach or you walk on the path that continues above the beach - it begins next to the last little tree on the first part of the beach.... At the end you keep somewhat to the right and you cross a nice cape, by following some vague tracks. You take a left for a while, in order to admire the wonderful erosion phenomena of Koftó and also, a little further, the shining white rocks just before the beach of Mavrospília.

The nice erosion phenomena before the cape of Koftó.

The white rocks next to the beach of Mavrospília.

After having gone to the left for a short while, you return until you get to a wall. The trail runs on the left-hand side of a house and in this way you reach a small gravel road, that continues to the left, along the beach of Mavrospília..  

The beach of Mavrospília.

(1h29) You then can descend to the colourful pebble beach of Elleniká. (1h33)

The most beautiful beach is definitely the one of Mavrospília, so you leave the pebble beach of Elleniká again: you follow the sandy road until you get to the middle of the sandy beach of Mavrospília. This is a fantastic picnic spot: the bay is shallow and the water was lukewarm already on the 13^th of May 2008, it was still so on the 3rd of October 2010. When swimming in the bay you have a nice view on the white rock formations on your left-hand side.

(1h46) For your return route you take the gravel road on the right, just past the sign "Mavrospília"; a little further, you again take a right and in this way you cross the cape, on the right of a house and a wall. With a nice view on the rocks in the sea all the way, you arrive at the elongated beach of Dékas after 3 minutes. You follow this beach for 6 minutes. About 1 minute past the white rocks you clamber to the strip of sand on your left and you walk through the dunes until you get to the sign "Dékas" and the beginning of the white gravel road.

(1h59) You follow this gravel road for another 20 minutes, where you keep to the right after 5 minutes. This is a very pleasant walk, through the sloping green valley, and finally you get back to the asphalt road. You take a left and you walk past the strange rock house. You then go left on the broad road and immediately thereafter you take a right on the white gravel path.

(2h19) You keep on going steadily, with on the right a nice view on the sea; the little double island between Polýaigos on the left and Mílos on the right is the private island of the Ventoúris family, known as shipowners. In the sharp turn to the left, after 10 minutes, you find your little gravel road again, right in front of you (blue dot).

(2h29) You descend into a small valley, you keep to the right twice and a little further you leave the valley to the left. You go up again and when you reach a crossing, after some 4-5 minutes, you keep to the left and you continue in the direction of the chapel. Some 3 minutes later you pass the chapel; here starts again the nice monopáti. A couple of minutes later you get to a path coming from the right and you proceed straight ahead. Another 3 minutes later you arrive at a T-junction and you keep going straight on - and so, you pass two paths on your right side, after 2 and 4 minutes.

(2h44) After a while you go down on a path which is sometimes nicely paved; you are now walking in a valley with red rocks and with a lot of cacti.

Your path between the cacti...

The nicely paved monopáti that leads back to Chorió.

From now onwards, you can follow two different itinaries:

[A. (2h51) You could follow the same route as on your way out: if you do so, you keep to the right and you climb out of the valley on a steep and winding trail. A marvellous climb brings you to a gravel road, which you follow to the right. You go up a little more and after 3 minutes you reach the simple chapel with the flat roof.

(2h58) At the large crossing immediately thereafter you go straight ahead, of course – since you can already distinguish the row of mills of Chorió far away in front of you. Some 5 minutes later the gravel becomes concrete and you enter the village. You pass two small streets on the left and you reach the asphalt road, where you take a left.

A nice view on Chorió with the Xaplovoúni.

In a curve to the left, after another 2-3 minutes, you go straight ahead on the broad and paved street. You then take the fifth street off the right (at a blue inscription on the wall). You continue straight on, first at a crossing by keeping somewhat to the left, and then at a side-street that comes from the left. You pass through a kamára (archway) and you go again straight ahead when a side street comes from the right. In this way you go down along the wall of the kástro and you easily reach the Kámbos. (3h15)]

B. (2h49) You also can follow a pleasant alternative path, that continues to the LEFT in the bed of the river (blue mark). The monopáti  runs next to or even in the rocky river bed (3 times blue marks). After about 7 minutes, you keep to the right in or next to the bed (blue mark) - it becomes narrower and deeper, and a little later, you again hold to the right.

(2h59) After a total of 10 minutes, there is a narrow dirt path that goes up to the right (blue mark) - but you also can continue for a few minutes in the bed, and take a few minutes later the beautiful path that goes up to right between walls ...
If you take the narrow dirt trail, the climb is initially steep, but after a few minutes you continue flatly. You then pass through a breach in a wall, where you get to the beautiful monopáti that comes from below and the left. You follow that path to the right, and, while arriving almost at the top, you get to a gravel road: you follow it to the left, but immediately after, there is a junction where you go right (blue mark). You climb for a few moments, then you go down with a wonderful view on Chorió and the Xaplovoúni.

Returning to Chorió.

(3h10) This road becomes a concrete street beside the Meltémi restaurant (there are also rooms): you keep going down, you cross a small bridge and you arrive in this way to the right of the church with the blue dome. Here you follow the main street to the right and you arrive after a few minutes on the Kámbos. (3h16)