Accessible by boat or by a 1km driveable dirt track and moderately difficult 2km walk, this beach is potentially suitable for naturists, at least out of high season when the Fteri Water Taxi from Zola harbour isn't bringing large numbers of textiles to the beach.

The trail to the beach is well marked with green and red paint marks on the rocks which are not too difficult to follow. However, it is narrow in places and does entail scrambling over rocks along the steeply sloping sides of the gorge so suitable stout footwear is essential. Further details of the trail to Fteri Beach, including downloadable GPS data and photos taken from waypoints along it, can be found on Wikiloc click here

Fteri Beach

Fteri Beach

5:32 am, May 16, 2025

18°C

overcast clouds

Humidity: 92 %

Pressure: 1005 mb

Wind: 8 mph

Wind Gust: 8 mph

Clouds: 100%

Visibility: 8.744 km

Sunrise: 6:26 am

Sunset: 8:42 pm

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Fteri is very similar to the famous Myrtos Beach but a bit smaller and, being more difficult to get to, without all the masses of tourists. Like Myrtos, the white pebble beach, turquoise sea and awesome backdrop of high white cliffs are stunning. Equally it has some of the disadvantages of Myrtos… the pebbles are mostly large and uncomfortable to sit on and the seabed, also pebble, shelves steeply so getting in and out of the water is difficult and wet shoes are really advisable. Even when the sea is relatively calm the grinding of seabed pebbles against one another creates white sediments making the water a bit cloudy. In rougher conditions swimming is probably inadvisable particularly as this beach is not lifeguarded. There are no facilities on the beach.

All in all an amazingly beautiful location but unlike Myrtos, being more isolated, it may be easier to bare all here.

2019 October: Took us about an hour to walk to the beach and we arrived late afternoon. We had the beach to ourselves although on the way down we did hear voices of a small group of people, presumably heading back from the beach via a different footpath through the trees. The red and green marks coincide for much of the route but occasionally depart. We think the green route is possibly a little easier.