The Greek Island of Thassos is located in the
North Aegean and has no airport so if you are going on holiday to Thassos by
air from Northern Europe your flight usually lands at Kavala on the mainland
and you are then transferred via short coach and ferry trip to the Island.
The almost circular island has a good quality road running round it for a
distance of about 95 km from start to finish, however there are no direct
road routes across the island. There is a regular-ish bus service which can
get you to mostly anywhere on the coast at reasonable cost. We found plenty
of decent walks and lots to photograph whilst on holiday on Thassos.
Thassos Town has two harbours, a good selection of tavernas and also an
amazing amount of ancient sites most of which are free to enter.
The tavernas are typically Greek Island - really great to relax in and spend
hours during the evening trying to run them out of house red wine... Thassos
has two marvellous beaches which should be visited if possible, namely
Golden Beach and best of all by far - Paradise Beach
(Thassos's naturist beach). Aliki beach
looked pretty good to spend a while lazing around on (but this is a popular
beach with holidaymakers and always seemed to be very crowded) - the area
does have some ancient sites and saltpans to wander around. Other equally
nice beaches can be found at Skala Prinos - and then more beaches as you
head on southwards. Please see a little further down this page for a photo
beach guide for Thassos's Beaches. From a hiking/walking point of view
whilst on holiday on Thassos there are really good walks around Thassos
Town, Panagia, Potamia, Megalos Prinos and Maries.
