{"id":1451,"date":"2012-02-26T19:43:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T18:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1451"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:31:09","slug":"leros","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.islandwalking.com\/wordpress\/greek-islands\/leros\/","title":{"rendered":"Leros"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center; font-family: Courier New Bold, Courier, monospace;\">\u039b\u03ad\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 &#8211; Dodecanese<\/h1>\n<div style=\"font-family: Courier New Bold, Courier, monospace;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">L<\/span>eros does not have that &#8220;touristy&#8221; feel to it, and the bays of Agia Marina and Alinda make a very beautiful setting! Most photographs of this bay is taken from the Kastro, and hence excludes what really makes the view so intense, with that large castle sitting watch over the small villages from the hill top. Good and cheap food can be found everywhere, and the people are friendly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">W<\/span>hat destroys some of this nice image is the positively lethal main roads. The roads are very narrow and both the cars, the bikes and the scooters are moving at the speed of light. At night the whole bay is like a racing track for the local motorbike population.<\/p>\n<p><b>Selected walks: <\/b>For walks on Leros see &#8220;Samos Patmos Northern Dodecanese&#8221; by Dieter Graf (referred to below as &#8220;\/Graf\/&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">\u20221 <\/span>(AGIA MARINA -) PLATANOS &#8211; KASTRO &#8211; PLATANOS: From Platanos you have two choices. If you dislike stairs you can stroll along the 2km asphalt road, otherwise it&#8217;s 800m\/370 steps up the signposted stair street to the Kastro.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">\u20222 <\/span> ALINDA BAY\u00a0AND BEYOND: Start in Alinda (or even Agia Marina) and walk the road around the bay. Then continue on paths beyond. A possible route is described in\u00a0\/Graf\/ as walk 38.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"font-family: Courier New Bold, Courier, monospace;\" \/>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Good starting points:\u00a0\u2022 Agia Marina\u00a0\u2022 Lakki<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0How to get there:\u00a0\u2022 By air\u00a0\u2022 By ferry from some islands\u00a0\u2022 By ferry from the mainland\u00a0\u2022 By hydrofoil from some Dodecanese and Northeast Aegean islands<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More info: Sorry, none yet<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"font-family: Courier New Bold, Courier, monospace;\" \/>\n<p style=\"font-family: Courier New Bold, Courier, monospace;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">T<\/span>his page was last modified at February 21, 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Courier New Bold, Courier, monospace;\" align=\"left\">\u00a91998-2026 <script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar name = \"harald.haugli\";\nvar s = name + \"@\" + \"islandwalking\" + \".\" + \"com\";\ndocument.write('<a href=\"'); document.write('ma'); document.write('il'); document.write('to:' + s + '\">');\ndocument.write('<i>Harald Haugli\\<\\\/i\\>\\<\\\/a\\>');\n<\/script>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u039b\u03ad\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 &#8211; Dodecanese Leros does not have that &#8220;touristy&#8221; feel to it, and the bays of Agia Marina and Alinda make a very beautiful setting! 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