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Choose up to three islands or regions and how many days you have. You get a day-by-day plan from the places in our guide — a sight, a beach and a taverna each day, kept to one part of the island — with honest transfer days between destinations. We tell you how to travel between them; for times, always check the ferry operator.

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Islands
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12 days

Your route

  1. Kokkari BeachΑSamos4 days
  2. Ferry within the same island group — often direct in season, but check the operator's current timetable before you book the next hotel.
    Mavra Volia BeachΒChios3 days
  3. Ferry within the same island group — often direct in season, but check the operator's current timetable before you book the next hotel.
    Castle of MithymnaΓLesvos5 days

  1. Kokkari BeachDay 1 · Samos

    Arrival
    • MorningArrive in Samos. Check in, and keep the first day light.
    • AfternoonVotsalakia Beach · Marathokampos
    • EveningAnna's Restaurant · Votsalakia≈ 1.9 km in a straight line

  2. Kokkari BeachDay 2 · Samos

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  3. Kokkari BeachDay 3 · Samos

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  4. Kokkari BeachDay 4 · Samos

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    • MorningMount Kerkis · South-west
    • AfternoonLimnionas Beach · South-west coast≈ 3.8 km in a straight line
    • EveningLoukoulos · Votsalakia≈ 3.1 km in a straight line

  5. Mavra Volia BeachDay 5 · Chios

    Transfer day
    • MorningTravel to Chios. Ferry within the same island group — often direct in season, but check the operator's current timetable before you book the next hotel.
    • AfternoonKarfas Beach · Karfas
    • EveningPinaleon · Karfas

  6. Mavra Volia BeachDay 6 · Chios

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  7. Mavra Volia BeachDay 7 · Chios

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  8. Castle of MithymnaDay 8 · Lesvos

    Transfer day
    • MorningTravel to Lesvos. Ferry within the same island group — often direct in season, but check the operator's current timetable before you book the next hotel.
    • AfternoonNyfida Beach · Polichnitos
    • EveningSea Horse · Skala Kallonis≈ 14.7 km in a straight line

  9. Castle of MithymnaDay 9 · Lesvos

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  10. Castle of MithymnaDay 10 · Lesvos

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  11. Castle of MithymnaDay 11 · Lesvos

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  12. Castle of MithymnaDay 12 · Lesvos

    Departure
    • MorningTsonia Beach · North-east coast
    • AfternoonDeparture. Leave a generous margin for the ferry or flight — island roads and ports get busy in season.
Samos

Σάμος

Samos

Destination guide →Ferries & timetables →Beaches →

Worth booking in Samos

Samos MuscatTerraced vineyards up to eight hundred metres and a PDO that runs from dry to the fortified Nectar; the cooperative museum pours the range.The tunnel of EupalinosA kilometre-long sixth-century BC aqueduct driven through a mountain from both ends at once, which met in the middle. You walk a long section.Potami and the Seitani covesThe waterfalls above Potami and the coastal path to the protected coves where monk seals breed — the island's quiet strength.

Where to stay in Samos

Live prices and availability on a map centred on this exact spot — hotels, studios and villas — so you can judge the distance to the beach, the port or the village from here rather than guess from an address.

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Pine forests, two mountains and a UNESCO inscription covering the Heraion and Pythagoreion. Samos grows the sweet muscat, sits a few kilometres off the Turkish coast and has the best walking in the North Aegean.

Chios

Χίος

Chios

Destination guide →Ferries & timetables →Beaches →

Worth booking in Chios

The mastic villagesMesta's vaulted tunnel lanes, Pyrgi scratched head to foot in grey-and-white xysta, and the mastic museum that explains the cultivation year.Nea Moni and AnavatosEleventh-century mosaics among the finest anywhere, inscribed by UNESCO in 1990, and the abandoned cliff village above them.A car, not the busThe mastic villages are forty minutes from town and the west coast is further; the buses are built for residents.

Where to stay in Chios

Live prices and availability on a map centred on this exact spot — hotels, studios and villas — so you can judge the distance to the beach, the port or the village from here rather than guess from an address.

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The only place on earth where mastic trees weep resin, and the island built around them: fortified medieval villages, a UNESCO monastery with eleventh-century mosaics, black pebble beaches and almost no package tourism.

Lesvos

Λέσβος

Lesvos

Destination guide →Ferries & timetables →Beaches →

Worth booking in Lesvos

Ouzo in PlomariDistilleries that have been in the same town since the nineteenth century. Ouzo here is drunk with food — usually the salted sardine of Kalloni.The petrified forestTwenty-million-year-old trunks turned to silica, standing in bare hills — a UNESCO Global Geopark, and almost always empty.A car for a weekIt is two and a half hours from the airport to Sigri in the far west. Without a car you will see one corner of a very big island.

Where to stay in Lesvos

Live prices and availability on a map centred on this exact spot — hotels, studios and villas — so you can judge the distance to the beach, the port or the village from here rather than guess from an address.

Bookings made through this map earn us a commission. Your price is unaffected.

Eleven million olive trees, the ouzo of Plomari, a twenty-million-year-old petrified forest with UNESCO Geopark status and the stone village of Molyvos under its castle. Greece's third-largest island, and one of its least packaged.

Before you go

Flights to GreeceCompare fares into Athens and straight into the island airports — Santorini, Mykonos, Crete, Corfu, Rhodes, Zakynthos, Kefalonia. Flying direct to the island often beats Athens plus a ferry.Search flights →Data & eSIMGreece is in the EU, so EU roaming applies and most European visitors need nothing extra. Worth it if you are arriving from outside the EU, or want a data bundle for maps and ferry apps.Get an eSIM →Travel insuranceMedical cover and trip protection bought before you leave. The European health card covers public-hospital care, not repatriation, a private clinic on a small island or a cancelled holiday.Get a quote →Tours, tickets & day tripsGuided tours of the ancient sites, skip-the-line entries and day trips — Delphi, Meteora, Mycenae, Knossos — booked ahead, free cancellation on most.Browse experiences →

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Where the journey goes next

Thassos first — then the neighbours of a Balkan road trip and the coasts across the water. Same format, the same honesty about the money, written place by place.

Turquoise water and a long sandy beach below green hills on ThassosThassos.onlineOur sister site · North AegeanThassos has a guide of its ownThe green, marble-edged island of the north Aegean, a short ferry crossing from Keramoti or Kavala and one of the Greek islands Romanian travellers know best. Beaches, mountain villages, tavernas and where to stay — covered in depth on thassos.online.Open the Thassos guide · thassos.online →
MyBulgaria.onlineBulgariaThe country most Romanian drivers cross on the way down — and worth a stop: the Black Sea coast, Sofia, Plovdiv's old town, the Rila and Pirin mountains.Open the guide →MyAlbania.onlineAlbaniaThe coast facing Corfu: the Albanian Riviera, Ksamil, Butrint and Gjirokastër — a boat trip from Corfu or a road trip of its own.Open the guide →