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An August 2005 correspondent introduces this beach, which he awards 100%. It is to the south of Wave Beach, and again reached by following the road out of Kefalos village past the cemetery. You then fork left at the sign to Agios Ioannis, after which the narrow, hilly road is passable with care. Just before the monastery, there is a small “FKK Beach” sign where you fork left onto a track, which is of poor quality. Perhaps a 4WD vehicle is desirable.
However, my contributor reports that the small beach is very beautiful, with a taverna selling cold drinks and renting umbrellas (5 euros) where you can stay nude. Indeed, the manager of the taverna and his girl friend are nude! Unsurprisingly, given the access and remote location, even in high season there were very few people there, but it does sound worth the effort.
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2006: Areport describes it as the most beautiful beach on the island and endorses the 100% rating. FKK signed but not many nude people there in August 16th-30th - only 2-4 young couples including my Barefoot reporters, other people textile. No problem with nudity. 45 per sunbed, cold beer, soft drinks, iced coffee.
2007: A Barefooter who visited in spring confirmed that this is a very beautiful beach, one of the best he had ever found! It is a sheltered cove with beautiful golden sand. However, there is a 4km track which requires a 4x4 vehicle. The track is still signposted with a FKK sign from the start of the approach road to the monastery. My reporters visited twice in May and on both occasions were the only two people on the beach all day. There were sunbeds available (and no-one to take any money), but no taverna, although it was in the process of being re-built, a new concrete base was there on our first visit and the walls were in place on our second visit.
According to an August visitor, a 4x4 vehicle is a must to visit this beach which is not easy to reach. This is undoubtedly the most beautiful beach. Firm, clean, golden sand backed by cliffs, with clear water and possibilities for snorkelling. However, there was no nudity (or even topless bathing) at the "umbrella and sunbed" end of the beach and my intrepid reporters had to walk quite a long way to the left before they found a suitable spot. Even then, there were a lot of walkers and they weren't entirely comfortable. But they were joined later by a Greek couple who seemed encouraged to find them nude and stripped off too.
Deserted beach (almost!) around 500m walk to the left from Cavo Paradiso beach (referenced in 2016 tab below):
2010 July: not easy to reach; 70% textile, but if you walk away from the sunbeds you will find the small and wonderful red beach you can see in the picture.
2011 August: it is not easy to reach, but it is not like the dirt track for Balos-Crete (that was very hard! this not..); the sunbeds are full of Italians that don't understand the meaning of the sign "FKK beach" (I'm Italian): I suggest to the owner to write "nudist beach" so everybody can understand and every body will be naked! (If you want to be naked at the sunbeds the owner is happy). If you walk on right side you'll find a big and quiet nudist area, wonderful, but too much wind… you can't stay for more than 3 hrs I think. Recommended for the sunset.
2014: Start of June: No 4x4 needed for this beach - a 15 minute journey down the unsealed road in a small Daihatsu and we were there (just try and avoid the small boulders). We went on 3 occasions and the beach was between 75 & 90% textile, but it's no problem to go naked and you can walk right along the shore. Little or no wind here, even when it was windy in other areas of the island eg. Kefalos.
End of August: very rough dirt road to get to an overcrowded textile beach. The sunbed area was 100% occupied by textile Italians. A discreet nudity was possible on the southern end of the beach, but the horde of walkers passing by could make you feel uneasy.
2016: As per previous reports, no need for a 4x4 but do drive carefully - the road is steep and totally unpaved but it is passable with care (we did it in a Hyundai i20 but there were plenty of people later on in little Suzukis and Daihatsu type cars).
There are no FKK signs as reported above however, but the beach itself is well signposted. We arrived first in August (around 9.30-45) and tried to set the nude agenda. By about 10.30 it was filling up (mainly with Italians) and none were nude so we were forced to cover up. However, if you leave Cavo Paradiso and venture along the beach itself around 200m you come to a large rock that sticks out into the sea, nudism is possible here although you do get lots of textiles coming to explore. Head another 150-200m along the coast though (you may have to go through the water here - it is sandy but watch your feet) you will come to a pretty much deserted, completely sandy beach about 2-3 times the size of Cavo Paradiso where nudity is definitely on the agenda. There are sand dunes and trees here if you'd like some privacy.
We spent most of the day on this more distant beach, there were about 5 couples that came and went throughout the day, all completely nude, however as we were leaving around 5.30-6pm more people were turning up from the main beach and they definitely weren't going nude - think they were just there to see what was on the beach.
While it was lovely being pretty much alone on this beautiful beach there were a few downsides:
- There was some litter - much of this was washed up from the sea, but there was some old bottles and cans. Nudists - please leave only footprints if you are going here!
- It is a bit of a trek over rocks and through the sea to get there - wear strong footwear (sandals are fine, but we found our flip flops broke too easily from walking through the waves. On the way back wore trainers and went completely on the rocks and not through the sea.
- It is windy on this whole stretch as the west of Kos is exposed - this means bigger waves (Kefalos Bay where Magic/Polemi beach is is like a millpond by comparison)
- The sand gets HOT! Footwear is a must to avoid burning your feet.
Despite all that, it is lovely and well worth a visit :)
2024: Nothing changed from the previous 2016 report. If you want to set the more distant beach as nudist you have to come there early (around 9.30). Some people could come to see but since it's the last part of the beach, unless they're nudists too, they'll turn around quite rapidly.
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