![]() ![]() If hiring a car in Greece, it’s better in terms of price and hassle to just hire one separately on each island. ![]() However, while many ferries transport cars, the costs can be high, and available vehicle slots may fill up even as there remains room for passengers. If you’re driving your own vehicle, you may appreciate its familiarity as you go from one island to the next. Planning Tip: Your big decision on this trip is whether to use the same vehicle for the entire trip or to rent a car on each island. #Paros vs naxos driversMake your final stop on the large and varied island of Paros, which rewards drivers with a plethora of beaches, mountain villages and shimmering hillsides of olive trees. Follow these short and twisty routes down to a variety of seafront villages with well-developed beach scenes. The roads radiate out from the central town of Apollonia. It’s popular with visitors and has a well-deserved reputation for its food traditions with many high-end and creative tavernas and restaurants. Just next door – and within sight of Serifos – Sifnos exemplifies the distinct personalities that each of the Cycladic islands possesses. Discover little fishing villages barely touched by tourism and long, sandy beaches in sheltered coves lapped by impossibly azure waters. It has one main road that loops around the island, so your only real decision is whether to go clockwise or the reverse. Begin on raw and rugged Serifos – less visited than many of its neighbors, it offers the perfect break from the usual hubbub of life. Start this trip in Athens, where the port of Piraeus is your gateway to what awaits. This is particularly true with beaches, where the best – and least crowded – ones may only be reachable by car.įew parts of Greece are more iconic than the Cyclades, where the islands dotting the Aegean are the stuff of holiday fantasies. Naxos pebble beaches - Grotta Naxos town, East Apollonia north end of the island, Lionas, Azalas north of Moutsouna, between Ag.Anna and Plaka beaches, and numerous others.Wander through the small fishing villages around the short loop on Serifos © Cavan Images / Getty Images Greek islands road trip Best road trip for beachesĪthens–Paros 180km (112 miles) total driving, not including sea travelĪlthough you may think of exploring Greek islands as a sea trip, you’ll need wheels to properly explore and enjoy most of these rocky isles. That leads on naturally to say re-jigging the whole thing to Dodecanese islands instead, much easier on ferries to your airport island of Kos, going down the line Patmos - Lipsi - Leros - Kalimnos/Telendos - Kos - Nisyros - Tilos - Symi - Rhodes. I know the latter will get next to no votes, but why not try it. Santorini I would actually dump in favour of Nisyros another volcanic island and indeed is close to Kos thus very conveniently placed for you. The Western Cyclades as a whole has less tourists than the central islands, but they still have tourists, some actually becoming trendy, no getting away from that.Īny of Serifos, Sifnos, Milos, Kimolos, Folegandros, Sikinos would be good choices for a stop on the way to Santorini. Milos has some small archaeological sites, likewise Paros, Naxos. ![]() Small Greek islands are not the place for history or Archeological sights (except Delos of course) - Crete is way better for that by an enormous margin. I have stayed on all the Cyclades islands except Kea, most of them several times. Those are not the only choices, 'best' is a matter of opinion, most people just quote where they have been. ![]()
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