I’m on the way to the legendary Thasos Island with its turquoise waters now. What would you do if you don’t get the curiosity of a sea lover like me to hear that Thasos Island, where there are not many historical artifacts, is famous for its beaches and that you can swim from all over the place?. Thasos aka Thassos Island is waiting to be discovered then…
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How to Get to Thasos?
We set off from Istanbul around 4 am and arrive at the border around 7 am.. It is not difficult to get the green insurance of the car, but we spend the hour we earn on the way waiting at the customs, coinciding with the shift change between 7-8.. Let’s get some rest. We cross the border smoothly and reach the port of Keramoti in 1 hour and 40 minutes and catch the 10 ferryboats.. The smallest vehicle price is 18 Euros, and 4 Euros per person.. Seagulls accompany our half-hour journey.. Don’t forget to take a bagel with you for them.. You will enjoy feeding bagels from your hand.. Be careful, they bite badly.. You have to pull your hand quickly. It’s not their fault…
Marble Beach
After a short city tour, we head towards Marble Beach, which we are very curious about, when we go to the north of the island.. The island is quite wet and lush. While you are walking on the broken island roads through the pine trees, you see the cut marble mines of the opposite mountains.. We are walking on the white marbles and dusty roads of those mines and we are going down to Marble Beach. A rather dusty, rough, steep and winding road. There are two MarbleBeach. the big one we went. It’s easier to go to the other and from there you can get there further. We’re getting down from the hard one. Not very crowded as of season. Our vehicle has turned white from marble dust.
The white sands and turquoise sea we see from above are now one step ahead of us.. It’s actually a small beach.. The first two rows of sunbeds are 15 euros, the third row of sunbeds is 10 euros. You pay for what you drink in the back.. Since we don’t plan to spend the whole day there and we are usually at the sea, we leave our towels on the beach.. Those who do it like us are in the majority.
The cost of eating, drinking and sunbeds on the beach is quite expensive compared to other places.. Marble fragments and dust, which we know as a white beach. That’s why the ground is so cold, the sea is warm. In general, the phrase from hot sand to cool water works completely in reverse here.. It is very difficult to sit on the ground when you get out of the water.. Because the place is freezing.
Everyone is worried about taking pictures.. Visibility in the water is not very clear. Right side marble mine. Everywhere is full of bees. As soon as you come out of the sea, they attack you.. As for the view, it’s amazing. People can’t take their eyes off. can’t get enough of looking. Green pine forests behind, a white and turquoise sea under your feet. After spending a few hours here, we move on to explore other places and find a place to camp.. My mind is on Marble Beach but let’s see what else is on the island?
Where is Saliara Beach? How to get there?
2019 October Update: Known as Marble Beach, Poto Vathy Beach is covered with sun loungers all the way to the sea. At the same time, mooring barges were placed in the sea very close to the beach.. Right next to it, the marble quarry went down to the sea.. We are not the only people who ruin the beauties in their hands. When we land at Limenas port, when I write Marble Beach in the navigation, we arrive directly at the small Marble Beach, called Saliara Beach, via the easy way I mentioned above. The distance between Limenas Port and Saliara Beach is 7 km.. We can arrive in 30 minutes as the road is a bit rough.. Definitely much nicer and calmer.. I’ve seen countless caravans in the wooded area behind the beach. I think those who want to go with a caravan can stay there.
We dive into turquoise waters, where I can’t count how many shades of blue there are from pure white marble stones.. People can’t get enough of looking. Even though it’s October, we’re having great weather.. A few sane indulgences like us are after the same pleasure.. Thasos is a very popular island.. It is especially flocked by Turkish tourists in the summer months.. I always prefer to come out of season to be able to capture such calm and peace.. The crazy crowd is gone and this gorgeous color beach is up to us with all its calmness, it gives us very good memories and yes the bees are still around like crazy. I say be careful where you step.
Camp in Thasos? Is it a hotel?
We leave Saliara Beach and arrive at Marble Beach. I’m so sorry for that ruined look. Normally, we should have gone up that slope and hit the asphalt road, but they wrote Skala Panagias on the marbles and directed them with an arrow.. You will enter such a broken road that… Do not enter. Don’t look at those arrow directions. climb the slope. When I arrived earlier, we had gone to Skala Panagias, the second largest city after Limenas, in half an hour. It doesn’t find it when you type in navigation. If you write Golden Beach or Blue Sea Hotel, which is the hotel we stay in, it will take you away.. Skala Panagias is a pretty cute place. The camping site is here at Golden Beach. Very windy beach. There are endless golden sands. Despite that wave and the wind, I can see the bottom of the water even from far away.. So clear, so clean. Sand beaches are often blurry. The clarity of this place amazes me.
There are quite a few caravans in the campsite. It makes more sense to stay at the hotel when you add up 5 Euros for a tent, 5 Euros per person, for electricity and a car.. Towards the evening, the air gets colder, and when there is not much difference, it becomes meaningless to set up a tent.. After wandering around Skala Potamia, we see Blue Sea Hotel’ and admire it.. Normally 100 Euros in the season, 30 Euros because it is out of season, 5 Euros more turns into breakfast included.. We got a room with a sea view. The room is really beautiful.. In my opinion, camping should not be entered for the camp.. You can camp by yourself in many parts of the island.
2019 October Update: When I went to the same hotel two years later, it was still 30 Euros.. Since it is October, there are not many people left on Thasos.. No tourists. I guess that’s why he said no breakfast. The boy standing at the front desk has no money. Does not take credit card. give full money. Can’t give change. Doors are locked in the mornings.
Taverna Krambousa, The Palate-Plaining Tastes of Thasos
We are having our dinner in the tavern right next to it. Of course there are all kinds of seafood. The service is fast, the people are nice, the music is great. They even make zucchini chips that we can only eat on a few islands, which we have difficulty in describing.. It’s a zucchini fries but crunchy like chips. They fry it with a special sauce and serve it with caciki sauce.. Not every tavern can. It makes me so happy to find it here.. Grilled calamari is my usual set menu anyway.. I also recommend the jumbo shrimp pan.. I really liked Krambousa Salat.. This is a mustard green salad. It has figs in it. It was an interesting mix.. Normally, I don’t like sweet and salty flavors together, but I loved this one.
2019 October Update: Since I set off with a vehicle with an engine failure, the fan of my car never stopped and it constantly drained the battery.. Life would be very difficult without the owners of Taverna Krambousa. Dimitris found a jumper cable every morning.. I phoned Taverna Krambousa when I was in Giola at nightfall. Sent someone in 20 minutes. It was unbelievable that that person shamefully asked for 10 Euros.. I was at the top of the mountain at that hour. If he wanted 100 Euros, I would have given him. Endless thanks for not turning this desperation into an opportunity and helping us erase bad memories with their smiling faces… Two years ago, I loved their taste, now their friendship is added to that.. I did not go to the same place where we stopped.
Archangelos Monastery
After breakfast on the way to Giola, we see a monastery. how many cars. I guess it’s Sunday. Archangelos Monastery. They give us skirts and cloaks when we come in.. It’s the first time we’re asked to cover up in a church. I’m surprised. The monastery is on a cliff, with a magnificent view.. We coincide with the Sunday Mass and join them in silence.. We eat lemon delight, visit the rooms and do what the people do.. A different experience.
While delivering the clothes at the door, the attendant at the door asks about our religion.. When my friend says I don’t have faith, the man gets very angry with us.. “If you don’t have faith, why are you in a place of worship?” as if to say. I respect all faiths. The monastery is in such a beautiful place.. Shouldn’t we have seen the decorations inside?
Giola
We continue on our way to Giola, which I admire from my friends’ photos.. This is in the south of the island.. There are two entrances here, but if you miss the first one while talking, it is difficult to reach Giola’ from the difficult stage.. We leave our vehicle on the main road and start walking on the dirt road in dust.. Some cars have descended halfway, but when we see those trying to go up, we do not unload our own vehicle.
There is both a tavern in the next place and the engines were able to get down here.. They have to walk the rest. It takes 10 minutes to walk the total anyway. The view is magnificent from above. A rock carved by the waves is like a lake. There are those who jump from the highest place into this hole. They say that there are many injured.. you don’t skip. There are sharp rocks at the bottom after all.
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We are with Bulgarian and Romanian tourists. It’s our bad luck that it falls on a Sunday.. There are a lot of people but everyone is respectful to each other. They try not to get into your frame while taking a photo.. Actually, the sea here is legendary.. The most legendary sea in Greece that I have ever swam in is definitely here.. It is such a turquoise that it is indescribable.. It’s not easy to swim from here. There are sea urchins. I’m the one who always says, “Take a swimsuit, be careful”, and I’m the one who took that shoe, didn’t wear it, and managed to stick a chestnut on it.
While shooting a video in free diving, I suddenly came across a huge open moray eel and a spring fluttering at the bottom of the water for my friend to forget about the video and see it.. For a long time, we watched the eel hunting like a documentary.. I actually watched. My friend said, “This is terrible, the moon”. Then she ran away.
I was left alone but I didn’t even notice. Although it is difficult to leave the sea, we are getting ready to see the other sides of the island.. There are too many bees here. It wasn’t too hard to walk up. Anyone can eat, drink and rest in the tavern there.. Prices are very reasonable.
2019 October Update:
I still couldn’t find Giola’s other entry. They built a concrete road down the main road.. We no longer leave cars on the road. We can go up to a certain point.. Uncle, who is sitting in his seat under a tree, greets you.. You pay a parking fee of 2 Euros. The main walking path is closed. They surrounded the land. They started to do something up above. I hope it’s nothing like a hotel. I saw rooms. I saw Nature Park articles. You can go down through the fences.. They extended the dirt road down to the bottom.. If you have a motor or a 4×4 car, you can go even lower.. I came back without visiting the rest of Thasos because my car’s battery died here again.. Updates end here, unfortunately… My car’s fan never stopped, so it constantly drained the battery.. For this reason, I returned to Turkey without closing any contacts.. I didn’t even turn it off on the ferry. Battery charging cable can be found on Thasos Island. It has a price of 13 euros. I think it should be a must-have in a car…
Limenaria
You enter from coves to coves on the road with a view to a view.. You can swim in the sea from anywhere on the island.. After admiring the sunset on the way, we come to another big city, Limenaria.. We forgot the camp or something, we are looking directly at the hotel.. Everywhere is cheap because it’s out of season.
Anna amazes me when we come in to ask for more prices.. what an amazing woman. You must meet Anna at the Menel The Tree House. We get our room for 30 euros including breakfast. Internet is super fast. We’re going to the nearby Tavern George for dinner. I have never tasted such delicious eggplant salad.. I say try. The rest of my menu is already fixed and delicious as always…
Today is our last day on the island. The island, which offered us a wonderful sun for two days, is cloudy today. Limenaria has a very beautiful bazaar. When we can’t pass the island, we find ourselves shopping when we say the most natural honey, olive oil, interesting jams.. If we don’t convert it to Turkish lira, the prices will be cheaper, but unfortunately when we translate it, it remains at normal value.
After the island landscapes, the Greek music playing on our radio, and the Frappe break we give in Prinos, we reach the point where we started, Limenas.. We have a date here with Cris, who is also a Turkish friendly biker point.. Cris runs a cafe called Me Gusta. He is a biker and Turkish bikers don’t pass by without visiting him.. It is waiting for you with all its sincerity right next to the police station.. We board our ferry at 3.30 and say goodbye to the island to come again.
We did not try to swim in Aliki, one of the most famous beaches, because it was very crowded even when viewed from afar.. I prefer pristine beaches if possible.. Except for the west of the island, almost all the bays are sandy and rocky on both sides.. Most have a facility. Eating and drinking WC facilities are available.. The beaches in the west are quite rocky and uninhabited.
As it is said, the sea is really beautiful.. It has been said that the roads to the interior of the island are up to a certain point and it is necessary to return.. Next time I plan to go inside the island for trekking.. (Two years later, on his second visit, he couldn’t even tour the island, let alone trekking, dealing with a car breakdown)
