Hiking in Mykonos

I hardly think anyone travels to Mykonos to hike, here are totally different pleasures that attracts. The landscape is not particularly inviting: it's flat and barren, and there are very few sights or interesting villages outside of Mykonos Town. If someone told me they were going to Mykonos to hike, I would probably have laughed.

The landscape is flat and barren and attracts very few hikers.

The highest mountain Prophet Elias Anomeritis is only 341 meters high. There is a hike that could possibly be interesting and it goes from Chora to Mount Prophet Elias Anomeritis. The hike is approximately 8 kilometers long and takes just over two hours to walk.

The well-known German hiker Dieter Graf has published many hiking books, but no one about Mykonos. It says something about how uninteresting Mykonos is out of a hiking point of view. Instead of hiking between high mountains and deep valleys you can walk between the beaches, or among the cosy alleys of Chora.

Instead of walking to the beaches, you drive a quad bike or car.

There are more sunbeds on each beach than there are hikers on the whole of Mykonos.

On Mykonos you walk along the beaches instead of in the mountains. Like here at Kalafati beach.

Walking between Tourlos and Agios Stefanos beaches.

However there is a hiking map of Mykonos. It is published by the Greek cartographic company Terrain maps, also known as Skai Maps. The scale is 1:25 000 and the map can be purchased in Mykonos. The map can of course be used even if you do not hike, for example if you rent a car or scooter, or if you are going to find the right alleys in the Mykonos Town. The map also includes the neighbouring island of Delos.

At least as popular is strolling around in the cosy alleys in Mykonos Town.

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