Qualla: Koufonisi https://qualla.com/koufonisi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/koufonisi-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Koufonisi https://qualla.com/koufonisi Koufonisi: Introduction https://qualla.com/koufonisi/ Photo credit Bgabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. There is no airport, no taxi, barely a road. To reach Koufonisi you take a boat, and once you step off it, you walk. The whole island can be circled on foot in three or four hours, which means everything worth seeing is within reach of your own two legs. What pulls travellers across the water to this small island in the Lesser Cyclades is simple and almost absurd: the colour of the sea. Cove after cove of it, so clear and so pale a turquoise that the caiques at anchor seem to hover above their own shadows.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/koufonisi-wk/swd4-koufonisi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Koufonisi: Following the Coast to Better and Better Beaches https://qualla.com/koufonisi/ Photo credit C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trick to Koufonisi is to keep walking. There is a small beach right in the main village, Ammos, but locals will tell you it is nothing next to what lies ahead. Set off counter-clockwise around the coast and the beaches improve with every headland: Finikas, then Italida, then ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/koufonisi-wk/swd4-koufonisi-following-the-coast-to-better-and-better-beaches.mp3 0:06 2 full Koufonisi: Getting Here, Getting Around https://qualla.com/koufonisi/ Photo credit Peter Bruckner, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ferries connect Koufonisi to Naxos, to neighbouring Schinousa and Amorgos, and all the way back to Athens, and cruise ships and private boats tie up at the port as well. Once ashore, the smartest way to move is the water shuttle: small boats run up and down the coast as far as Po...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/koufonisi-wk/swd4-koufonisi-getting-here-getting-around.mp3 0:06 3 full Koufonisi: Feast Days and Fishermen https://qualla.com/koufonisi/ Photo credit Yanni Haviaras, CC BY 2.0. Time the visit right and the island throws open its calendar. Saint George is the island's protector, and on his day, usually the 23rd of April, his icon is carried in procession along the seaside street over a carpet of rose petals while fireworks crack and every small boat in t...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/koufonisi-wk/swd4-koufonisi-feast-days-and-fishermen.mp3 0:06 4 full Koufonisi: How to Eat, Drink, and Sleep Simply https://qualla.com/koufonisi/ Photo credit Sgroey, CC BY-SA 4.0. Life here is small-scale and well stocked. The large Veneti supermarket near the port, its sign spelled out in Greek as "Beneth," carries just about everything you need, and one of the island's three ATMs stands right outside it, though there are no banks. The Giorgoula bakery tu...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/koufonisi-wk/swd4-koufonisi-how-to-eat-drink-and-sleep-simply.mp3 0:06 5 full Koufonisi: And When You Want More Sea https://qualla.com/koufonisi/ Photo credit G-Lignum, CC BY-SA 4.0. Koufonisi rewards the traveller who lingers, but it also sits at the centre of a whole constellation of quiet islands. Boats run daily to Kato Koufonisi, the empty twin where the camping is, and excursions reach the protected archaeological island of Keros nearby. When you are re...

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