Beaches

I love beaches, especially if they are like in Milos, beautiful and often very spectacular to watch at. Maybe 50 beaches is too much to cover in one week, but I think I visited the most important, with the limitation of not having a boat.

North

If we start in the North, Plathiéna is the closest beach to Plaka, and is rather well protected and partly shaded by tamarisks. It's rather clothing optional, at least of season.

A beach to avoid is Nerodafni, the most northerly beach, with a very destroyed environment because of the mineral industry. The beach itself is nothing much; has no shadow to offer and consists mostly of rather big stones that are very uncomfortable.

Sarakiniko on the road to Pollónia, is a special beach in the sense that the light rocks, polished by wind and water, looks like a moonscape. I just took a quick glance on this beach, since it was terrible hot in the middle of the day. Probably you should keep your swimming wear on when spending time on this beach!

Close to the ruined ancient city Philakopi, there is another special beach, Papafrangas a dramatically shaped cove. After some difficulty to reach down, a swim from the tiny beach at the bottom is welcomed experience.

Pollónia 12km Northeast of Adámas is the second resort on Milos after Adámas. It's nice to visit one of the open-air restaurants by the waterfront, enjoy a nice meal and feel the relaxed atmosphere.

This is a windy place and therefore popular among wind surfers. The beach is rather long but narrow with tamarisks, which offers shadow.

Ormos Milos

The big gulf, Ormos Milos, offers some decent beaches. However Papakinos in Adámas, along the road to the airport doesn't belong to my favourites. It's to close to the road and the buildings. If that doesn't disturb you, you can find shadow on this beach and the possibility to get you something to eat.

The best beach in the gulf is Hivadholímni, found in the southern part, which is a wide beach that invite you to nice walks along the water. The Eastern corner of the beach is good for snorkelling. Unfortunately it's hard to find any shadow on this beach.

South

In the South you probably find the nicest beaches on the island.

Starting in the East we have Paliochora. To get here you have to start in Adámas and drive towards the airport, but before you reach the airport you have to take the roads heading for the village of Zefíria. In the village you take to the right.

This beach are divided in three parts: the main part in the middle with some taverns close by.

Another part to the east, separated by rocks rather easy to pass by. This Eastern part is considered to be clothing optional.

If you instead take to the right or in Western direction, you find a marvellous beach reachable through a tunnel in the rocks. This tunnel is not so easy to find, but you are plentiful rewarded if you make it! When I was here out of season I was the only one on the beach. In this situation you don't have bother about any clothes. Just enjoy the sun, wind and water on your naked skin!

It's possible to reach another beach not that far from Paliochora, if you after the village of Zefíria, take to the right and when the roads is divided in a fork, you take to the right yet another time. After a rather tricky drive with motorbike, thanks to the loose dirt on the road you will reach Agia Kyriaki beach. It's a sandy beach with rather small tamarisks.

To reach the next group of beaches on the south cost of Milos, you pass the airport and most of the Hivadholímni beach, were the road is divided and you are heading to the south (left).

Tsigrado consist of some rather small sandy beaches, with steep rocks above. There are rather few people here of season.

One of my favourites is Firíplaka beach; a nice sandy beach divided on two to three sections. Behind the beach there are rocks in chalky white, terracotta and ochre colours. Here I consider naturism rather accepted, at least of season. Take a look in my Image section further down on this page, were you would find two pictures from this beach!

The only not so fun about this beach is that you have to pass cement works on you way to the beach, with a dusty and damaged environment.

Next beach is Provatás with a big hotel complex just above the beach. I had a splendid tomato salad for lunch here one day, but I never spend any time one the beach, since I do not like developed beaches!

Not far from Provatás you will find some small beaches with the common name of Agios Sotis. I visited one of these beaches for several times, during my stay at Milos. Just above the beach was a small tavern, which is very handy and the beach was mostly populated by naturists. A beach in my taste!

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