Hiking on Karpathos

Karpathos' magnificent scenery obviously offers fantastic hikes. The northern parts of the island is like a paradise for hikers: old goat and donkey tracks leads through a wild scenery of woods, high mountains and deep valleys.

The best hikes are in the northern part of the island, in the region of Olympos, Diafani and Avlona. One nice hike goes between the villages of Othos, Volada and Aperi. A hike I would like to do (but have not done yet) goes from Spoa to Lefkos, via Mesochori.

If you squint, you'll see some walking between Olympos and Avlona.

To hike between the villages is a great pleasure.

If you are going to hike on Karpathos, I recommend Terrain maps, also called Skai Maps, which is a Greek cartographic company specialized in hiking maps. They have a map of Karpathos with a scale of 1:60,000. The map describes the best hiking routs on the island.

Karpathos magnificent nature offers very nice walks, like here above Apella.

If you hike on Karpathos, you can discover beaches that are otherwise difficult to reach.

The majority of people who travel to Karpathos do short walks on the beaches. Photo from Lefkos.

Art and Walk is organizing walks, hikes and artistic workshops for mosaic and painting on Karpathos. Activities daily under the guidance of Swedish Thom and his Dutch wife Renate. They have lives and worked on Karpathos since 2011 and have a lot of knowledge about Karpathos and the proud Greek history and their traditions. This they try to transmit during their many different walks.

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