Evaluation: The first part of this hike takes place along the lonely coast to the west of the bay of Sykamiá and then mounts on the crest of Vatoúdi until the abandoned hamlet of Pyrgí. It can optionally be combined with the walks from Panagiá to Pyrgí or from Sykamiá to Panagiá... It deserves ***.
[The translation of this walk was made with the help of Google translate - so, do not mind the mistakes...]

Estimated time: This hike can be done in about 1 hour and a half (AWT): the way out to Pyrgí indeed requires 50 minutes, while the return takes a little less.
The total time (TWT) can amount to the double - we walked for 11am to 3pm, with a long break for picnic at Pyrgí...

Route description: [After a steep descent on the road between Panagiá and Sykamiá, you can leave the car on an open ground before reaching the beach.]

(0h00) You follow the wide beach to the left, and once arrived almost at the end, you will find to the left of a few boats and at the bottom of a house, the very obvious trailhead.
This trail goes up without marking - and yet this route is marked with the number [8] on the recent map of Anávasi.

Soon you get a nice view on the beach of Sykamiá.

The obvious path starting from Sykamiá.

(0h10) After 5 minutes, you arrive above a small creek, then you continue above the rocky coast, while continuing to the left of a wall or a sort of curbstone. You arrive in front of a deep bay, where you see a vague bifurcation - you can choose the right path and you thus will arrive above the bay of Gialoudáki, where you veer left. Do not descend too fast - you should seek the easiest way to descend and you end up at the bottom, about 20 meters from the edge of the water.

(0h20) You cross the beach between the garbage and wreckage and at the other end you find easily the continuation of the trail, not far from the sea. After a few minutes, you start a steep climb, with soon a wall on your right - and you see, because of the remains of this wall, how far the trail continues ahead. The path begins to meander, sometimes on bare rock, but it becomes vague after 9 minutes - you should keep a little to the left until you come against the rocks on your left, and then you find clear steps and rocks that make you to go up in zigzag onto the crest of cape Ai Giórgi.

(0h33) In front of you, the chapel of Agios Geórgios appears, but you veer left along a wall. When the wall veers to the right, you should keep to the left on a trail that climbs slightly, and in this way you will get to the top of the ridge. In front of you, you see two bays, the second is the bay of Karavás.
You now follow a path that continues to the left, on the crest of Vatoúdi;  after 2 minutes, you pass through a breach in a transverse wall, with a large cairn on the left side. The ridge becomes broader and flatter now, and after just a few minutes, you pass to the right of the first ruin. You still go through two breaches in walls, then you keep more to the right, just below the crest. You arrive next to a wall that comes from the right and below, and shortly afterwards the obvious path passes on the right side of a square ruin.

(0h44) A little later, you arrive at the right of a heavy wall, that seems to turn too much to the right and down. But later, you can go through a breach in a transverse wall and then you can veer more to the left - you also pass through or over a low gate in reinforcing steel. You continue to follow the wall, even when it goes higher and more to the left - and finally, you can get through a breach in the wall and you thus arrive at a kind of large courtyard, surrounded by a large circular wall with within 2-3 old houses that are now stables. It is the abandoned hamlet of Pyrgí. (0h50)

In the "courtyard"...

In the ruins of the stables: some remains of the interior of the former houses.

[You may continue your climb on the ridge: starting from the "courtyard", you continue to the right of the highest ruin through a breach in the wall ( cairn). While keeping a little to the left, you cross an alóni (threshing floor), towards a low stable, where you still go left through a wall (cairn). It is here that you will find a fairly clear path that goes up on the rocky slope; the trail will still go through two breaches in walls and will arrive between two walls going up - you even might follow the return route of the walk Panagiá - Vársamo - Pyrgí...]

(0h50) You start your way back along the earthen path in the middle of the "courtyard", which passes to the left of the second stable and further to the left of a 3rd ruin; here you go through the breach in the circular wall (cairn). You follow the wall to the right (some cairns); after a few minutes, you pass through or over the low gate near a transverse wall and you continue straight along the heavy wall. You pass to the right of an alóni and then you again go through a transverse wall, where you veer right to follow the long wall for a few more minutes. You approach this wall, you pass an oval alóni and then just next to the square stable (with a well-preserved old roof).

(0h55) Shortly after, you finally can go through a breach in the wall that is lower now, and then you still have to go through two transverse walls. You leave the last stables on your right and you now go down in the middle of the ridge - far ahead of you, you are already seeing the bays of Gialoudáki and Sykamiá.

The bays of Gialoudáki and Sykamiá.

You again pass just next to another alóni - all those alónia and stables prove that once this area was full of activity! You continue towards the large cairn, where you still go through a gap in a low wall. You now descend towards the chapel, but, pay attention, just before coming to a pale rocky ledge, you should veer to the RIGHT (we left a cairn).

(1h02) You go down and arrive in this way against the curved wall: a path comes from the left (from near the chapel), but you should continue to follow the wall. You veer right all along with that wall - Sykamiá already seems rather close -, but after a passage between sharp rocks, you begin a steep descent into a deep valley that still lies between you and your goal. The descent in zigzags on almost natural rocky steps is really beautiful; the trail becomes vaguer after 4 minutes, but then you come next to a wall and the rocky path thus becomes clearer.

(1h15) You get to the dirty beach after a descent of 13 minutes. You cross the beach while keeping a little to the right and so you find the continuation of your path about 15 meters from the edge of the water, on a rocky ledge that goes up to the right. But you almost immediately veer left (cairn) and the path becomes a bit difficult: you climb to the right (we left some cairns), and having found a distinct path, you certainly may not go down to the left. If on the contrary you go up too much to the right, you will reach a higher path that joins the lower path further...
Suddenly, the trail becomes much clearer: you pass a stable after a few minutes, and then you go through an open gate. After another 6 minutes, you pass above the small creek.

(1h26) You go up again and after a nice stretch of 6 minutes, you descend until the beach of Sykamiá. You follow it for about 5 minutes and you thus arrive at the open ground, where you left your car. (1h37)