Through the beech wood
The forest the house is named for, from our gate and back, on an old woodcutters’ path.
- Walking
- 2½ hours
- Distance
- 6 km
- Climb
- 300 m
- When
- All year. With snowshoes in winter
Περπατώντας
The Zagori, on foot
Forty-six stone villages, more than a hundred stone bridges, and a gorge a thousand metres deep, joined by mule paths that are still the best way between them. Katerina has walked all of them with a notebook. These are the six she sends people on.
How we help
- Lunch packed the night before, €9: pie, cheese, fruit, walnuts.
- Lifts to the start of a one-way walk, or back from the end of it.
- The drying room for boots and jackets, and a notebook of what the paths were like today.
- Snowshoes and poles to borrow in winter, and the first walk with us.
Three bridges from Kipi
Down to the river and the three-arched bridge, then along the water to two more.
- Walking
- 3 hours
- Distance
- 8 km
- Climb
- 250 m
- When
- All year
The Vradeto steps and Beloi
Up an eighteenth-century stone stair cut into the cliff, to the best view of the gorge.
- Walking
- 4½ hours
- Distance
- 10 km
- Climb
- 550 m
- When
- April to November
The Vikos gorge
Through the deepest gorge in Greece, from Monodendri to the springs of the Voidomatis.
- Walking
- 7 hours
- Distance
- 13 km
- Climb
- 400 m
- When
- May to October, in dry weather
Papingo and the rock pools
A short walk to pools in the rock, cold and very green, for a swim on a hot afternoon.
- Walking
- 2 hours
- Distance
- 4 km
- Climb
- 150 m
- When
- June to September
The dragon lake on Tymfi
A whole day up to an alpine lake under the summit, full of newts and old stories.
- Walking
- 9 hours
- Distance
- 16 km
- Climb
- 1250 m
- When
- June to early October