Walking, hiking and trekking on Kythnos

Visited in 2001, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012	Walking, hiking and trekking on KYTHNOS
HOME GENERAL INFORMATION LINKS KYTHNOS BOATS KYTHNOS - Agios Georgios - Adamantios Koraïs - Aqua Jewel and Aqua Spirit - Artemis - all boats Milos Travel MAPS WALKS (last update on the 27th of February 2013) * = very beautiful = exceptional NN = new in 2012 1. Chóra - Agios Stéfanos and back * NN 2. Chóra - Agios Trýfonas - Episkopí - Vryókastro and back * NN 3. Chóra - Dryopída (situation 2000) 4. Chóra - Dryopída (Kanála) 5. Chóra - Kolofoniá - Apókrousi - Kolónna and back 6. Chóra - Loutrá and back 7. Chóra - Panagía tou Níkous - Panagía - Agios Geórgios - Agios Ioánnis and back 8. Chóra - Panagía tou Níkous - Agios Stéfanos * 9. Chóra - Profitis Ilias and back * 10. Dryopída - Agios Konstantínos - Episkopí - Dryopída NN 11. Dryopída - Mathiá - Kaló Livádi - Antónides - Kanála 12. Episkopí - Apokroússi - Kolónna and back 13. Episkopí - Dryopída and back 14. Episkopí - Vryókastro and back 15. Kanála - Agios Konstantínos - Flamboúria and back * 16. Loutrá - Kolofoniá - Apókrousi - Kolónna and back 17. Loutrá - Chóra and back 18. Loutrá - Paleókastro and back *** 19. Mérichas - Episkopí - Apokroússi - Kolónna and back	Kýthnos is one of the most western Cycladic isles. An important boat-line goes from Piraeus first to Kýthnos, then to Sérifos, Sífnos and Mílos. Once or twice a week the boat then continues to Folégandros, Síkinos, Santoríni and Anáfi. In addition, there are fairly frequent connections with the harbour of Lávrio, via Kéa; also the Aqua Jewel, the Aqua Spirit and the Artemis take care of connections with Kéa and Lávrio, but also with many other Cycladic islands. You reach the port of Mérichas at Kýthnos after a boat trip of approximately two hours and a half. The surface area of Kýthnos is 99 km² and it has a population of about 1600 people. Kýthnos is a rather dry and arid island; some villages are really nice, especially Chóra or Messariá. There are majestic coastlines and beautiful beaches to seduce the tourists. The landscape in the neighbourhood of the ancient capital, the Paleókastro, is really impressive. Mérichas is a picturesque fishing port with some cosy hotels and restaurants. There are busses between Mérichas and on the one hand Chóra and Loutrá, and on the other hand Dryopída and Kanála. Chóra is situated at about 5 km from Mérichas and it provides for some nice walks. It is really pleasant to walk in the streets, decorated with white floor paintings with little flowers and ships. In Loutrá, even further to the north, you can find wells containing sulphur and iron. Dryopída, 4,5 km south of Mérichas is impressive because a deep valley divides the village in two neighbourhoods. Another 5 km further to the south lies Kanála, with a church in the middle of a beautiful pine forest. There are a lot of marvellous beaches at Kýthnos: slightly north of Mérichas there is the beach of Martinákia; and a little more to the north you find the magnificent beaches of Episkopí and Apókrousi, and the picturesque peninsula of Kolónna. Interesting as well are a couple of beaches that are not that well known, such as Agios Stéfanos, Agios Ioánnis or Kaló Livádi on the east coast, Flambouriá and Agios Dimítrios on the west coast. The fact that Kýthnos does not easily reveal its attractions was, until recently, also due to the lack of decent hiking maps. No maps on Kýthnos have been published in the Anávasi-series and the Road-map no 106 can only serve as a road map - there are no hiking trails at all indicated on this map. However, in spring 2009 a very good map appeared in the excellent series of Terrain Maps. This map gives you a whole lot of monopátia, although not all of them are mentioned - like the trail from Chóra to Loutrá (on the right of the asphalt road), the beautiful path from Chóra, via the Panagía tou Níkous, to Agios Stéfanos, and the trail from Dryopída, via the chapel of Agios Konstantínos to Episkopí. Nevertheless, this map is a great improvement for hikers! In fact, you can really make a lot of beautiful hikes on Kýthnos - at the back of the Terrrain map you find 13 suggestions for hikes; on this site we will eventually describe 19 hikes, of which the most beautiful are: the hike from Chóra (or Messariá) to the Profítis Ilías (334 m hight), from Loutrá to the Paleókastro, from Chóra to Agios Stéfanos, from Chóra to the Vryókastro and especially from Chóra to Agios Ioánnis. Since January the 1st 2004 you are visitor n° On March 25th 2010 visitor n° 100 000 was on this site! Since then, this Kythnos page got visitors.	The fishing port of Mérichas The monastery above on the Profítis Ilías The sand tongue of Kolónna The church of Panagía Nikous, outside of Chóra Sunset on the beach of Episkopí

Walking, hiking and trekking on KYTHNOS