and 2010
Walking, hiking and trekking on KYTHNOS
BOATS KYTHNOS
- Aqua
Jewel and Aqua Spirit
- Artemis
WALKS
(last update on the 24th of December 2011)
*** = very beautiful
**** = exceptional
N = new in 2010
1. Chóra -
Dryopída
(situation 2000)
3. Chóra - Kolofoniá - Apókrousi and back
(December 2010)
4. Chóra - Loutrá and back
5. Chóra - Panagía tou Níkous - Panagía - Agios Geórgios - Agios Ioánnis and back **** N
6. Chóra - Panagía tou Níkous - Agios Stéfanos ***
7. Chóra - Profitis Ilias and back ***
8. Dryopída - Agios Konstantínos - Episkopí
(December 2010)
9. Dryopída - Mathiá - Kaló Livádi - Antónides - Kanála
(December 2010)
10. Episkopí - Apokroússi - Kolónna and back
11. Episkopí - Dryopída and back
12. Episkopí - Vryókastro and back
13. Kanála - Agios Konstantínos - Flambouriá and back
(December 2010)
14. Loutrá - Kolofoniá - Apókrousi - Kolónna and back
(December 2010)
15.
Loutrá - Chóra and back ***
(French)
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.
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 Skaï-series
(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 17 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 and especially from Chóra to Agios Ioánnis.
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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