Municipality of Karpathos

The town of Olymbos in the very north of Karpathos was founded by refugees from the ancient Doric city of Vrykous, wich were on the run from saracen pirates in the 7th or 8th century. This place, hidden between high mountains, could not be seen from the sea and was much safer for its inhabitants. Until the last decade there was no road connection to the south of the island but the sea rout. Even today the paved road is dangerous because of its narrow curves, steep precipices and stones wich can occur in your way, behind every turn. A trip to Olymbos from the airport still takes about one and a half hours. But its worth every km. For me it is one of the absolute highlights of the island.

It is worth walking up the steep steps to the old and nearly dilapidated windmills to get this breathtaking view on Olympos. At that daytime, close to sunset, you will hardly find tourists here. They left much earlier because of the long and curvy road back to their holiday homes further south.

Panorama from the beautiful village of Olympos in the north of Karpathos. Panorama from 8 shots handheld with the small Fuji X100F.

"Proni Chapel" on a little hill beside the deep blue sea, nothing else around. In the far you can see the silhouette of Kasos island. Pure Greece!

Magic place.....no words

The town of Olymbos in the very north of Karpathos was founded by refugees from the ancient Doric city of Vrykous, wich were on the run from saracen pirates in the 7th or 8th century. This place, hidden between high mountains, could not be seen from the sea and was much safer for its inhabitants. Until the last decade there was no road connection to the south of the island but the sea rout. Even today the paved road is dangerous because of its narrow curves, steep precipices and stones wich can occur in your way, behind every turn. A trip to Olymbos from the airport still takes about one and a half hours. But its worth every km. For me it is one of the absolute highlights of the island.

Panorama of the lovely little village named Arkasa in evening light. We went there a few times during our stay in Afiartis. There are many good restaurants and the well known bar named "Stema". A good place to end the day with a drink and meet friends. The remarkable church wich you can see in the middle of the frame, is normally lit beautifully at night. I waited for the moment in vain, that evening they sadly did not turn on the lights.

This is the charming fishing village Finiki at the west coast of Karpathos. From the Church of Agios Nikolaos you have a beautiful view over the small marina and back to Arkasa.

Looking over the beautiful beach of Agios Georgios and the bizarre coastline towards Finiki. This is a wonderful spot to watch the sunset and in addition enjoy an exzellent greek dinner at the taverna Kedros, wich is right behind. This is a panorama wich I took handheld, wich forced me to choose a wider aperture and therefore a shallow depth of field. Regretted this later because I wished the rocks and the waves would be as sharp as the foreground. Learned something: Allways take you're time to put up a tripod ;-))

After a pretty long period of Covid travel restrictions, we finally made it to one of my favorite greek islands, Karpathos. I brought a lot of photo material home with me from the trip, which I will gradually show you here in the near future. So, stay tuned.