Paradisi (Sissi) beach
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The beach is lovely: three sandy bays interconnected, with a freshwater spring piped out about 8' above the middle beach - what a lovely shower! We walked to the left and were the only couple on that beach all day; a naturist couple with two children came to the middle beach, and there was one more couple on the beach to the right. The monastery at the top is fairly new, and you pass the ruins of the old monastery on the way down (or up); very, very picturesque, and worth every bit of the effort to get there.
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2001: Reports confirm that this beach is good for nudity and much of the time deserted.
2006 June: my reporters said there was only one more naturist couple, from Austria. Several small boats were passing the beach pretty close - one man tried to make a video of us (how pathetic) and the other couple from a boat so they put on their clothes for a few minutes.
2007 August: Barefoot reporters tell me that it's still a quiet and nudist beach: when my reporters arrived, at 14.00 pm, there were 6-8 people, 100% nudist. After an hour, two families arrived: they were all textiles, but ignored us. So they continued to feel very comfortable there.
My correspondents also walked one evening to the beach below the Theotoku Sission Monastery 2.5 miles to the east of Lourdas beach. The monastery beach was deserted and the swimming good.
The beach is fantastic and the flowers on the cliffs behind in May are extremely colourful. My contributor spent two idyllic days here with only two other couples on the beach. The sea can be rocky in places but use the centre section and it's pretty clear. This is the place to enjoy really quiet days of sheer naked joy! Barefoot visitors in August found it 70-80% nudist and very comfortable.
2013 August: We went to this beach on a Saturday, to find a quiet place. It was indeed. We parked our motorbike right after the new monastery (road was too bad to proceed) and walked toward the beach. We arrived at 11am and the beach was deserted. Amazing! This beach is great! We placed ourselves on the right part of the beach and stripped off. During the day some other people arrived (3 or 4 couples): all nudists excepting for a couple of textiles which later stripped off, trying naturism as soon as they realized that the beach was completely naturist. If you don't mind walking for 15/20 minutes (path is partly shadowed by trees) this is the best place to enjoy naked sunbathing and swimming. A real paradise!
2015: Visited early in the season, a big landslip had blocked the track down to the beach. Impossible to get through but hopefully it will be cleared before the Summer gets under way.
2016 August: You have to leave the car at the new Monastery, many cars tried to go down and get hard troubles on way back (including me) without several people's help. After the old Monastery you absolutely cannot go by car if you don't have a strong 4x4 but also in that case you've to be a good pilot due to the very ruined road, we just see a small Suzuki able to reach the beach. After 30 minutes walking down we reached the beach which is exactly like described, real paradise on earth, at 11 am just us and some other couples all naked. During the day about twenty people arrived, half nudist and half not and all get place without problem. The fresh water from the mountain is beautiful and you can drink it !!!
2017 May: The "road" to the beach now has deep gaps across it half way down, caused by a stream so you wouldn't make it even in a 4x4. We managed the walk in about 30 minutes back up and we are moderately fit oldies but it was only about 25 degrees. You need to wear decent trainers, not flip-flops. The beach had 4 naturists one day and nobody on our second visit. It is a beautiful place with good sand and lovely backdrop. October: We visited Sissia Beach at the beginning of October. A paved road leads to the new Sissia Monastery where there is plenty of parking space. From there a dirt track and path lead down past the ruins of the old monastery through pine trees to the beach. The walk is just under 1 mile (1.5km) and steep in places but very picturesque. The dirt track is in very poor condition and not passable by car. Apart from being steep, the walk is easy but take plenty of water and perhaps think carefully before attempting in very hot weather. Sissia is a secluded, long, gritty sand and pebble beach … perfect for naturists. When we visited there were four other couples on the beach and plenty of space … appeared predominantly naturist. The seabed shelves moderately steeply and the pebbles get larger further out. Wet shoes are not essential but for comfort might be preferred … no noticeable currents … great for swimming! There are no facilities on the beach but a natural freshwater spring provides a perfect shower.
2018 May: In our opinion the most beautiful beach on the island. It was deserted for the most time. Only some people visited the beach but all of them were textiles. Nevertheless nudity was not a problem, because the beach is long enough. August: Great beach but a bit of a trek back up if you are not fit. There is plenty of shade on the path though. We were the only naturist couple when we walked down. One couple saw us and decided to remove their costumes, only to dress again when another textile couple came down. We had visited by boat a couple of days before and it was mostly naturist that day with only a few textiles.
2019 June: A beach that feels like paradise! When you finished the 15 minutes walk through a very natural forest with some muddy, stony and slippery sections, a lot of bees and dragonflies (We liked the walk, at least the way down) you will find a very beautiful natural beach with only a few visitors. We visited the beach three whole days and never found more than 10-15 visitors there, at least 80% of them were nude. The beach is separated by rocks into some sections giving you additional privacy. A natural fresh-water shower is in the centre of the beach. For us one of the best beaches for nudism that we have ever visited! The only drawback: The hike back to the monastery will take you 25-30 Minutes and can be challenging if you are not fit. July/August: Still lovely and still mixed naturist/textile. There are few visitors though so no problem finding a spot. October: Further details of the picturesque route to and along the beach, including downloadable GPS data and photos taken from waypoints along it can be found on Wikiloc click here.
Sissi remains nudist friendly. About 10 to 15 people on the beach, a 50:50 mix of textiles and naturist, mostly m/f couples. We walked to the far (south-eastern) end but found recent storms had banked larger pebbles up quite steeply on the beach. The sea seemed a little rougher at that end too so we returned to the opposite (north-western) end where we spent a lovely afternoon. The only slight disappointment since our previous report of October 2017 was that the large pipe that once provided a lovely fresh water shower has broken off and being much shorter the water now spills onto the rocky slope at the back of the beach. A smaller pipe has been improvised to reach beyond the rocks. Better than nothing but we do hope the larger pipe might be reinstated.
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