LANDSCAPES OF LESVOS : CONTENTS  (to return to the main page, click here)

Preface 5
Acknowledgements 8
Getting about 9
Further reading 9
A country code for walkers and motorists 10

TOURING AND PICNICKING
Car tour 1: WAY OUT WEST AND PETRIFIED 14
Figures from history 15

Car tour 2: THE NORTHERN SCENE - MONASTERIES, MONOLITHS AND MARAUDERS 19
Short walks for motorists (Skala Sikaminias) 22
Pentapolis 24

Car tour 3: AGIASSOS AND THE TWO GULFS 25
Cheeses 26
Short walk for motorists: the Kasteli from Agiassos 27
Short walk for motorists: the Pesas Waterfalls 28

Car tour 4: MYTILENE - EASTERN PROMISE 32
Plan of Mytilene 36
Walking tour around Mytilene 37

Car tour 5: A WETLANDS WANDERING 38
Hot springs 39

WALKING
The walks 43
Waymarking and grading 43
Weather 44
Walk wisely 44
Photography 45
Things that bite or sting 45
Where to stay 46
Greek for walkers 47
Organisation of the walks 48

THE WALKS
1 Loutra · Profitis Ilias · Loutra 50
2 Loutra · Koundouroudia · Skala Loutron circuit 53
3 Thermi circuit via Panagia 55
4 Lambou Mili · Roman aqueduct · Karini · Lambou Mili 58
5 Circuit from Ag Dimitrios via Agiassos and Karini 61
6 Agiassos · Asomatos · Agiassos - a circuit via olive grove paths 64
7 Circuit from Agiassos via the Sanatorio 68
8 Ascent of Mount Olympos 71
9 Agiassos · Asomatos · Agiassos - eastern circuit 74
10 Southern ridge circuit from the Sanatorio 76
11 Agiassos · Asomatos · Ag Anargyri · Sikounda · Ippio 78
12 Ag Anargyri · Asomatos · Ag Anargyri · Mylelia 81
13 Ag Anargyri · Mixou saddle · Ag Anargyri 83
14 Circuit from Mixou via Plati 85
15 Melinda · Paleohori · Raxidi · Melinda 87
16 Circuit from Melinda via Kournela 90
17 Circuit from Vatera via Paleopyrgos and Vrissa 93
Some reptiles and mammals on Lesvos 94
18 Circuit from Vatera via Profitis Ilias and Cape Fokas 97
19 Circuit from Skamnioudi via Lisvori Spa 100
20 Petra · Petri · Molyvos · Petra 103
21 Skala Sikaminias from Eftalou 107
22 Alexander's circuit 110
23 Circuit from Petra via Lafionas 113
24 Ag Paraskevi · Klopedi Temple · Moni Taxiarchis · Ag Paraskevi 115
25 Moni Mirsiniotis · Moni Limonas · Metochi · Kalloni 118
26 From Anemotia to Skala Kallonis 122
27 Anemotia circuit 125
28 The Petrified Forest from Eressos 128

Bus information 132
Index 133
Fold-out island map inside back cover