Milos by sea, Sifnos on foot
Milos gives the trip its water: Kleftiko's sea caves and the collapsed roof at Sykia, reached by boat with no land access otherwise. Sifnos gives it its walking, on a two-hundred-kilometre network of waymarked paths between villages and monasteries, ending each evening with the island's clay-pot cooking tradition.
- Length
- 8 days · 7 nights
- Months
- June – September
- Stops
- 5
The route on a map
1 · 2 nights
Plaka, Milos
The hilltop capital, best for sunset over the bay.
2 · 2 nights
Pollonia, Milos
A small harbour for swimming off the rocks before breakfast.
3 · A day here
Kleftiko sea caves
Volcanic arches and caves reachable only by boat, on Milos's south-west coast.
4 · 1 night
Kastro, Sifnos
A Venetian citadel on a headland with the sea on three sides.
5 · 2 nights
Apollonia, Sifnos
The walkable inland capital and the start of most of the island's footpaths.
Day by day
Day 1
Arrive Milos
Sleep · Plaka
Ferry from Piraeus of three to seven hours, or a forty-minute flight; evening at Plaka's castle viewpoint.
Day 2
Sarakiniko and the north
Sleep · Plaka
The white volcanic rock at Sarakiniko in the morning, Firiplaka beach in the afternoon.
Day 3
Move to Pollonia
Sleep · Pollonia
Short drive across the island; afternoon swimming off Pollonia's rocks.
Day 4
Kleftiko by boat
Sleep · Pollonia
A full-day caïque to Kleftiko's sea caves and Sykia's collapsed roof, with a stop at Kimolos on the way back.
Day 5
Ferry to Sifnos
Sleep · Kastro
Local ferry of roughly an hour and a half; evening walk around Kastro's Venetian lanes.
Day 6
The footpath network
Sleep · Apollonia
Walk from Kastro to the monastery of Chrysopigi, then inland to Apollonia along old stone paths.
Day 7
Villages and clay-pot cooking
Sleep · Apollonia
Artemonas and Vathy in the morning, a revithada lunch cooked overnight in a wood oven.
Day 8
Depart
Departure
Morning ferry to Piraeus.