TRAVELOGUE for LEFKADA Island, Greece

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FROM CORFU TO LEFKADA

Our journey through the Greek islands continued to the island of Lefkada. For this purpose, we took a ferry from Corfu to Igoumenitsa. There is no direct ferry between the island of Corfu and the island of Lefkada. This time Charlie, our dog, was much braver compared to our previous trip to Corfu, when he was so terrified on the ferry that I had to pull and drag him all the way across the ship.

After 2 hours of meandering through the Ionian Sea, we reached Igoumenitsa, from where we set off on the road to Lefkada. Along the way, we passed through exceptionally beautiful and dramatic seascapes. We also passed through the Aktio-Preveza underwater tunnel, which is the only underwater tunnel in Greece. It is located between Preveza and Aktio. After the Rio-Antirrio bridge, this is the most important infrastructure project in Western Greece. Before the tunnel was put into operation at the beginning of the 21st century, transport between the two shores at the narrowest part of the Ambracian Gulf was carried out by ferry. The underwater section of the tunnel is nearly a kilometer – 909 m. On both sides of the roadway, there are sidewalks for pedestrians to cross. The one-way toll is 3 euros.

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Lefkada island is connected by land to the mainland of Greece, so there is no need to use a ferry. The island, much like Corfu, seemed very picturesque and floral to us. Once again, plenty of flowers all over the island – in the towns, villages, and along the country roads. However, here there were a large number of wealthy single-family houses, luxurious estates, and yachts… Everywhere you turned, you saw that blue-to-green color of the water.

Our hotel was located in Nidri and was called Calderimi Pension. The hotel had a pool and accordingly the children hung out there constantly 🙂 Nidri turned out to be a surprisingly lively place – taverns and shops everywhere. A huge bay with a marina and thousands of boats and yachts inside. In one of the restaurants we got ourselves some kind of mess for 11.90 euros, which included moussaka, meatball, beef, potatoes, rice-stuffed pepper, stuffed grape leaves and other typically "Greek" dishes. The Greek gyros were usually around 2 E.

During our 3-day stay in Lefkada, we also managed to visit the town of Vasiliki, which is a famous resort on the island of Lefkada. It seemed quite deserted in terms of people, perhaps because we were there in June, who knows... The beach is very well equipped for windsurfers, so if you windsurf, that is the place for you. We had decided to have lunch there, but when we saw the prices, we quickly grabbed our bags – now it's fine, but chicken soup costing me 8 euros, a Greek salad 8 euros, moussaka – 10 euros, and spaghetti 12 euros each, well, that is definitely not okay!

For us, amidst all four islands we toured, Lefkada will remain the island with the most WOW beaches. All the beaches we visited were truly impressive – just like on postcards, with wonderfully blue-turquoise water.

What applies to all the other Ionian Islands applies in full force to Lefkada island as well, namely that on the east the beaches are calm, but quite ordinary, while the WOW beaches were always located in the western part of the island, and the most famous beaches were on the western coast.

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The beaches of Lefkada island that we managed to visit were:

MICRO GIALOS BEACH. Supposedly the internet says it's suitable for snorkeling, but it wasn't anything special. On the bright side, there were beautiful white pebbles on the shore, a few taverns around that bring food right to the beach itself, and wonderfully turquoise water.

PORTO KATZIKI BEACH. This is one of the most famous beaches not only in Greece, not only in Europe, but in the entire world, and more than once or twice this beach has been in the rankings for the best beaches in Europe and the world. The road there, however, got on our nerves... Next time we will definitely go by boat! The road was very narrow and very, very exhausting with countless turns. Parking is paid on site, there is nowhere to park for free. The beach, as expected, was exceptionally beautiful. On one side – light blue water, and on the other side – high sheer limestone cliffs. The shore is all white pebbles. Both here and on absolutely all similar and famous beaches, the amazing blue color of the water was due to the surrounding limestone cliffs, and without exception all such beaches were very steep – you enter two meters into the water and you no longer touch the bottom. Keep in mind that the beach is considered a bit dangerous as there are cases of falling rocks. Even we, while walking on the beach, reached the neighboring beach, where we saw stones flying from high up and falling into the water...

KATHISMA BEACH. A very nice beach with white pebbles and blue-green water. Suitable for children. From there we gathered a ton of stones to take with us to Bulgaria as a souvenir. At the beginning of the beach there is a paid parking lot, but if you bypass it and continue towards the beach, you will be able to park without anyone asking you for anything.

Other beaches that we didn't have time to visit, but highly recommend are: Egremni Beach ( Egremni ) – keep in mind that rocks also fly there and it was last closed due to some earthquake, as well as Ammoglossa beach.

For the next part of the series of travelogues for Greece read here: Travelogue for Kefalonia