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Autumn in Koukouli. The beech forest turns copper from the top of the mountain down, and we light the first fire.

Oxyarooms in Koukouli, ZagoriAsk for a room
A stone stair zig zagging up a layered limestone cliff, two walkers climbing

Walks Steady

The Vradeto steps and Beloi

Up an eighteenth-century stone stair cut into the cliff, to the best view of the gorge.

Walking time
4½ hours
Distance
10 km
Climbing
550 m
Difficulty
Steady
When
April to November

The map

Foot of the stairTop of the stairVradetoBeloi viewpointN02 km
One way. We arrange the lift back. Drawn from Katerina’s notes; take the paper map from the drying room as well.
1380 m850 m at the start10 km

Where it startsAt the foot of the stair below Kapesovo, fifteen minutes by car. We drop you off.

Before there was a road, the only way into Vradeto, the highest village in the Zagori, was the skala: a stone staircase that zig-zags up a sheer cliff in more than a thousand steps. It is two hundred and fifty years old and in perfect repair.

It looks fearsome from below and is not. The steps are broad, the gradient is steady, and there is a wall on the drop side for most of the way. An hour and a quarter of climbing brings you out on the meadows above, and from there it is a flat forty minutes to Beloi, a rock platform on the edge of the Vikos gorge with the whole of it laid out below.

Walk back down the same way, or arrange for us to fetch you from Vradeto.

What to take

Water: there is none on the stair. A layer for Beloi, which is windy.

Tell us the evening before and we will pack lunch, check the forecast with you and, if it is one way, arrange the lift.