In search of the best beach – Paxos #1

There are a lot of beaches here. Someone has ranked them. Not sure of the ranking system, but it seems the harder it is to get to, the higher the ranking. We spent 2 days looking for Orkos Beach which is ranked #1. The description said it was a challenging walk from the parking spot.

Yesterday we rode around in circles for hours trying to find the parking area and path that leads to the beach – without any luck. Today we were determined! This is only a 30 sq km island (about 2 1/2 Nose Hill park).

We used Google maps, Apple Maps (both in my headphones), my built in sense of direction, and I also had Colleen in my ear with, “we went past that building again…”. We left at 9 am and finally ended up in Laggos for coffee at 10:30. It’s about 7 minutes if we take the direct route!

Our searching for the path was finally rewarded and we parked the bike in Lakka and headed off on foot. It took another hour of hiking on a loose rocky footpath with huge steps and steep hills.

We finally found the elusive Orkos Beach at around 1 pm. This has been described as the “Prettiest beach in the world”. I think they missed a few in the Caribbean.

We hung out, read, swam and chatted with the one other couple who ventured down. On the way back the trail and roads were clearly marked and it took us about 13 minutes to get back. Clearly we are not navigating on the Amazing Race any time soon.

Riding around on our scooter and exploring the island is really fun! This small island is covered with green and is beautiful to see. Unfortunately it is hard to take pictures while riding.

Here are some sites around Paxos

We went back to our apartment and rested after overdoing it on Colleen’s bipedal propulsion system. She has been awesome! She is getting stronger every day and has not really had to miss on any of our wild adventures. I wonder how much the millions of steps she took at Westjet were protective of her hips.

To night we walked into town and had supper and returned our faithful steed – our moped.

Here are some sites of the day.