Estimated time: All together the actual hiking time is 1h50 (AWT): 70 minutes to Livádi, and then two times 20 minutes to the beach and from then to Karavostásis. Over there you have to take the bus back to Chóra.

Route description: You depart from the bus square at the southern side of Chóra, where you also find the beginning of the road to Ano Meriá. At the bar El Greco you follow the ring road to the east (and the petrol station) for a short while. Almost immediately though, you take a right on a concrete road (there is also a signpost Heliport); in earlier days this concrete road used to be a donkey trail between the walls. You can walk on briskly on this rather unpleasant road without taking a left nor a right. The concrete turns into a gravel road after some 7 minutes, immediately past the turn to the heliport. After about 11 minutes you get to a desolate hill ridge: from there on you can see the road going up and down far away in front of you, all the way to Petoúsis. You walk through this barren landscape for about half an hour until you arrive at a junction. You take a left, in the direction of the houses of Petoúsis. A little further on, just past an olive field on the left-hand side and about 200 metres before the first houses, there is a monopáti off the left in between the walls. You find this trail amidst a lot of grey rocks and a little further down there is also a red dot. 

The monopáti between Petoúsis and Livádi.

You now descend straight towards a couple of houses deep beneath you; later on you curve to the right, in the direction of Livádi – the final stretch of this trail is very stony and it runs on the right-hand side of a wall.

You walk past the poor houses of Livádi and you go down on a concrete slope, until you arrive at the brown, earth road – which curves further to the left, towards the sea. You follow this road for about 20 minutes and you thus get to the fairly beautiful beach of the bay of Loústria, with sand and pebbles. The sea can be fairly rough, because the beach is exposed to the northerly wind. It is also here that you find the only camping of Folégandros.

At the far left end of the beach you walk back for a short while and you take the small concrete road off the right. This concrete road, which is not unpleasant since it runs high above the sea, brings you to the port of Karavostásis in about 20 minutes. During the last 5 minutes you can walk along the stony, but shaded beach if you want to.

The little harbour of Karavostásis.