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Lefkos is known to have the best beaches on Karpathos. It is situated about 30 km north west of Pigadia (or Karpathos city). It is a wonderful trip on mountain roads and along the western coastline.
Lefkos has four main beaches, the southern three of which are textile. At the end of the last beach up north is the Sarris Hotel near where you can park. From there it is an easy 10 minutes walk along a wide track to the first beach, which is the biggest. Mix of pebbles and sand, with easy access to the sea. Usually 100% nude, with a mix of couples and families and the odd single, of either sex. It has fine sand, rocks at both ends, is about 200 metres long and has no toilets, umbrellas or tavernas.
The water was wonderful. At the end of May there were about 20 people on the beach, nearly 100% nude, and at least 50% women. My Barefoot correspondent rated it 80%.
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When you walk another five minutes you arrive at another beach, very steep to get into, and quite small. Ten people were there, five couples. My correspondent says "probably you had better be young to get there." I assume he means in order to be fit enough to make the climb.
These beaches are smaller and with a difficult climb to get down, but worth the effort as these are the better ones.
2011 July: Barefooters who visited found the beach to be virtually 100% nude, with only a scattering of people, but quite exposed, with waves crashing onto the shore making swimming difficult for all but the most accomplished. Nevertheless, they rated it 85%, enjoying walks along the shore and splashing in the waves. Not being young or mountaineers, they didn't try getting to the further beach mentioned below.
2014 September: Mostly naturists on all sandy patches all the way from Hotel Saris to the west (Socastro islet). Main beach in this area was nearly 100% nudist, not crowded, with a mix of couples of all ages and a few singles (male and female). No big waves at the time, sandy ground, with some rocks though, easy to enter the water. A few nude people were also found at the very end of the textile beach, near the rocks & cliff just below the Saris hotel (now abandoned).
2018 August: Forum report by Kavafis: I'm happy to confirm that Lefkos has a very well established nudist beach - it's even indicated at a sign as soon as you enter the Lefkos region! To reach it, you will go North (to the right, when entering Leftkos) and pass by 3 textile, organized beaches. After the third one, you will see that the road bends steeply to the right, while a dirt road starts at the left side, by the sea. That's the path to the nudist beach. You can either park your car right there and walk less than 10 minutes (a pleasant and easy walk) or even take your car to the dirt road (I saw some people who did it).
The first beach, which you can see from the path, has a good size, it's sandy and contrary to what others have said, it's not difficult to get in, you just to find a stop [spot?] without rocks. Went there on a Saturday afternoon, no more than 12 people. I didn't visit the second beach, which you can reach going further on the path, but I could see people coming and going.
Bored Pacianga in the Forum says we too visited Kato Lefkos, and confirmed everything that wrote Kavafis. We visited also the second beach and happily found only nudists, almost from Germany and Netherlands. I can add that the first beach can be accessed from some stairs that are in front of “Golden Sand” Taverna, then walking northward for 50m.
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