Let’s go to Chios City! For us volunteers in the south of Chios this is a normal activity on Saturdays, and we like to go there from time to time. But on one Saturday at the beginning of February 2018 we started a new experiment: Would it be possible for […]
Places on Chios Island
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How not to take advantage of an almost spring day in Chios island to visit and discover some beautiful places set in time like the medieval villages of Mesta and Pyrgi, located in the south of the island. Mesta has an architecture dating back to the Byzantine era as we […]
Pyrgi is the largest medieval village of Chios island, located at a 25-kilometre-distance from Chios town. In general it is a very impressive and beautiful place with an interesting background. When we had the change to visit the village, the buildings facades were the first things that caught our attention. […]
One sunny Saturday morning in July we, the volunteers from Katarraktis, decided to discover our area a little more and visit the beach of Agia Fotini. We walked there alongside the coast over stones and sand. Next to a wide selection of restaurants and taverns Agia Fotini also offers many […]
On a cloudy Saturday in May early in the morning we set off with our backpacks, prepared for the long walk from Katarraktis to the south of the island. On the way we stopped a few times: at a monastery and when the view was just too breathtaking. All the […]
On Saturday the 11th of November we went all the volunteers together on a small trip over the island. With our director as our guide it happened to be a really nice and educative excursion. Our first stop was in Nea Moni. Nea Moni is an old monastery build in […]
Anavatos is one of many hidden jewels on Chios island. We visited the city in the middle of November but it was still warm enough to enjoy the mystique and history of this place. But even if it had been very cold, Anavatos would have enchanted its visitors anyway. Anavatos […]
If you are up for a nice region with much historic and cultural background I have exactly the right thing for you: The Kampos area! Kambos is located in the south side of Chios Island and is definitely one of the must see spots here. Is has always been and […]
Most of the bigger villages and cities on Chios Island are located in the middle or in the south of the Island, the northern area consists of high, rough mountains. But that doesn’t mean that there is nothing interesting to see: Everywhere on the mountains are yellow, nice smelling flowers, […]
Last saturday we were visiting the leper colony (“Lepokomeio”) just 5 kilometers away from the port of Chios city. Founded by the Genoese conquerors, the leper colony was built in 1378 and one of the first institution of it’s kind. People, infected by leprosy were exiled from the community and […]
January on Chios Island: 17 degrees, almost no rain according to the weather forecast and a few volunteers who wanted to explore the island. So we left home in the morning to visit the famous monastery of Nea Moni (lit.: New Monastery). Nea Moni is part of the UNESCO world […]
Lagada is a small but very picturesque village in the north part of Chios, about 10 km from our place, so is quite easy to reach by bus or on foot. One time in the summer our volunteers decided to combine their hiking hobby with visiting this location – we […]