Skopelos and the marine park
A quieter, greener Aegean week of walking and boat days. Skopelos supplies the architecture and the old mule paths; Alonnisos the National Marine Park and a real chance of monk seals.
- Length
- 6 days · 6 nights
- Months
- May – October
- Stops
- 2
The route on a map
1 · 3 nights
Skopelos Town
Slate and whitewash rising from the harbour, a working town with over a hundred small churches.
2 · 3 nights
Old Alonnisos
A restored hilltop village above the port of Patitiri, with the marine park visible from its terraces.
Day by day
Day 1
Arrive Skopelos
Sleep · Skopelos Town
Ferry from Volos or Agios Konstantinos, two to three hours, arriving by afternoon.
Day 2
Walking the old paths
Sleep · Skopelos Town
A guided walk on the mule paths to the Evangelistria monastery, through pine shade and plum orchards.
Day 3
The south coast beaches
Sleep · Skopelos Town
Stafylos and Kastani, with lunch at a beachfront taverna.
Day 4
Cross to Alonnisos
Sleep · Old Alonnisos
A thirty-minute local ferry to Patitiri, then a taxi up to the old village.
Day 5
The marine park by boat
Sleep · Old Alonnisos
A full-day boat past uninhabited islets and the Byzantine monastery on Kyra Panagia.
Day 6
Departure
Departure
A morning ferry from Patitiri back to Volos, roughly three hours on the direct sailing.