Walks and trails
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Walks and trails

Walks you can do on foot without a guide: village lanes, monastery precincts, an upland crossing and one long waymarked coast path. Times are for an unhurried pace, and every route says plainly how much shade you will get.

Mastichochoria · EasyMesta lanes and gatesThe most complete surviving mastic village, walked the way it was designed to be entered.1.5 km · 45 min · CircularMastichochoria · ModeratePyrgi to OlympoiTwo fortress villages joined by mastic terraces, with the xysta of Pyrgi at one end and a quiet square at the other.5.5 km · 1 h 30 min · One wayCentral Chios · ModerateAvgonyma to AnavatosA short upland walk between a living stone village and the abandoned one on its cliff.4.5 km · 1 h 15 min · One wayCentral Chios · EasyNea Moni precinct walkA slow circuit of the eleventh-century monastery, its cistern, refectory and the memorial chapel.1 km · 40 min · CircularKampos · EasyKampos estate lanesHigh stone walls, citrus behind them, and the tower houses of the Genoese and Chiot merchant families.4 km · 1 h 10 min · CircularEast coast · EasyVrontados shore to DaskalopetraAn easy seaside walk to the rock-cut sanctuary that tradition calls Homer’s teaching seat.3 km · 50 min · One wayNorth-west · ModerateVolissos castle climbA short, steep climb through the old village to the Byzantine and Genoese towers above it.1.5 km · 40 min · CircularWest coast · DemandingLithi to Agiasmata path networkThe island’s longest waymarked walking network, along the west coast and its abandoned mining landscape.12 km · 5 h · One wayChios Town · EasyChios Town harbour and castleThe town read in one hour: waterfront, market, castle gate and the Ottoman and Genoese layers inside it.3 km · 1 h · Circular