Best walks in Skopelos
Skopelos is an amazing Greek island to trek, you are never too far from a beach or a view. Here’s our essential guide to walking in Skopelos.
You may want to get Christmas and the New Year out of the way before you start planning for next year’s holiday, although with the weather getting infinitively gloomier, the nights drawing in at a rate of knots and the Christmas crowds already surfacing in the high street, daydreaming about lands of sunnier climes, sapphire skies and verdurous vistas offers a welcoming relief to the British winter blues.
Being the greenest of the Greek islands on the Aegean Sea and never being too overcrowded, the island of Skelopos is perhaps one of the best places to start your ‘escaping to an idyllic paradise’ fantasies.
This picturesque and tranquil island has many good beaches, but many who have had the pleasure of visiting Skopelos, often cite that the beach of Milia, with its fantastic selection of water sports, Velanio beach, half of which is nudist, and the pretty and tranquil beach of Glisteri, that are the most beautiful of Skopelos beaches and cater for all desires and tastes.
If you do find yourself falling victim to the island’s many scenic and cultural charms then a trip to the extremely picturesque, well preserved and fortunately unspoilt by modern development Skopelos Town is paramount. Although it is the many interesting trails that haphazardly criss-cross this charming island and provide for beautiful varied walks, which are the island’s most unique attractions.
Skopelos Town to Glisteri
This immensely scenic walk is described as ‘easy’ and takes approximately two hours. Walkers experience the delights of Skopelos’ sweet smelling forests, from Skopelos Town down to the pretty rocky coves of Glisteri.
Glossa to Ioannis
Due to some of the paths on the route having crumbled away, the walk from the deserted hilltop village of Glossa to the larger town of Ioannis is not for the more ‘faint-hearted’ and gentle of walkers. This walk, which takes you through the most stunning of scenery, is definitely for more able walkers and takes approximately 4 and ½ hours.
Skopelos Town to Agnontas
To walk from Skopelos Town to Agnontas and back takes approximately 4 hours. Whilst the trial is fairly straightforward, it ascends and descends over Skopelos’ spectacular verdurous landscapes, providing an exhilarating and inspirational walk.
There are many interesting tracks and trials, scattered over this beautiful and unspoilt Greek island and without the crowds, even in high season, the island of Skopelos really can be described as being a ‘walker’s paradise’.