Karpathos is one of the Greek, which, islands Dodecanese middle course between Rhodes and Crete located, in whom the Aegean sea the Mediterranean meets. It is the third biggest island in the Archipelago after Rhodes and Kos, but despite having its own international airport Karpathos remained mercifully unscathed by those ravages by mass tourism. Cannot remain for much longer possibly this way, because an increasing number of international visitors now the many joys of Karpathos - which discover rugged mountains, which hide century old persons more unspoiltdoerfer, beaches, which are some from the finest in Aegean and windmills, which work, in which the local women rub still their own corn. They can fly directly to the island of some BRITISH airports and other European Bestimmungsoerter and regular olympic airline flights close Karpathos with Athens (one and one half of hour) and the neighbouring islands of Rhodes and from Kasos. The mainland gate of Piraeus is a travel of the ferry 19-hour away. Ferries attach also the island with Crete and Rhodes, which are the direct line hub for the other islands Dodecanese. Ferries couple at the main gate of the island and the head, Pigadia, in the southeast corner of the island. The airport is western of 18 kilometers of Pigadia at the southern point of the island south, but there is no bus service, which attaches so the two, if you arrive on the airway, which you must take a taxi or arrange your own transport. Pigadia is a modern city and burgeoning a routistic erholungsort at the southern end of the szenischen bay Vrondi, which is a three-kilometer expansion of the sand-extending northwest along the coast of the Hauptharbourfront. They find much the attractive beaches to the north and for the south of the capital, along the southeast coastal line and Over on the west side of the island. Rugged a mountain thorn divides wild northern part of the island the end southern of lowlies, more fruitful and populating width unit. For centuries develops the two halves of the island completely independently from each other - even today there is no acceptable road, which connects the two and which is too received best way, from one to the other one by boat. Except wonderful sandigen beaches and free crystal waters southeast of Karpathos, which other main attraction of the lies Karpathos in the north at the extraordinary village of Olymbos, in which time seems, nor to be confessed (except the tourist!). Perched on a bald edge 600-metre, this Remote15. Century village was cut off practically by the civilization for centuries and even today's day remains a strange mixture of the modern and that medievally. The older women dress still in durchdacht gestickten traditional costumes with headscarves and goat skin loadings on. They rub corn in the local windmills, bake bread in in free local furnaces and speak a strange dialect, which covers words of the Dorian times, hundreds of years BC. In some cases they conserve still the old "matrilineal" system of the inheritance, however its oldest daughter the characteristic nut/mother are down led. IOS ISLAND MYKONOS ISLAND SANTORINI ISLAND ANDROS ISLAND AMORGOS ISLAND SYROS ISLAND KORFU ISLAND KEFALONIA ISLAND TINOS ISLAND RHODOS ISLAND KOS ISLAND KALYMNOS ISLAND PATMOS CHIOS ISLAND NISYROS ISLAND SYMI ISLAND KARPATHOS ISLAND SAMOS ISLAND IKARIA ISLAND ATHENS Leros GREECE Greek properties Greece properties Greek islands real estate Leros hotels Skopelos island travel to Athens 360 travel guide Mykonos Paros Naxos Crete Santorini Santorini hotels Kos hotels Corfu hotels Corfu Samos hotels Rhodes hotels Skiathos hotels Naxos hotels Naxos