Argalasti – Kalamos

Distance: 3,7 km
Duration: 1.15΄
Marking: red signs
Maximum altitude: 255 m. (Argalasti Square)

This route goes downhill from Argalasti to the beach of Kalamos and for most of its length we walk on a nice cobbled path. It is an easy route ideal for winter and spring months. From Kalamos we can continue along the coast either to the right (north) towards Lefokastro or to the left (south) towards Little Pau and from there return to Argalasti.

Starting from the square of Argalasti, from the corner of the pharmacy we follow the narrow concrete road that leads west and passes in front of the post office. At the end of the road we have on the left corner the renovated stone-built building of the old Parthenagogueio. The cobbled road to Lefokastro leaves on the right. We continue straight ahead to the west on a downhill cobbled path that alternates with parts of a path. After a while it comes diagonally from our left as we descend another path from the church of Agia Paraskevi. We arrive at a junction where we go left downhill, finding the cobbled road again, pass a small stream and below a second one where there is the stone bridge of Ammoursas, drowned in vegetation.

Further down, we cross an oblique crossroads with a rural road and continue straight on the cobbled road.

After a while we come out vertically on a dirt road. If we go to the left, after a hundred meters we will find the beautiful chapel of Agia Triad and next to it a fountain with cool water.

But to get to Kalamos, we follow the dirt road to the right, going downhill, until we come out on the asphalt road that goes to Kalamos on a left turn. Do not enter the road, but go down a path on the outside of the bend and go immediately left. In a few metres we meet a house and in front of it the path turns back into a cobbled road, but immediately it turns diagonally onto the asphalt, which we follow for two hundred metres.

Watching our left, we find again the cobbled road that goes downhill, crosses the asphalt vertically below and continues cemented for a few metres to a cottage on our right. Below the cobbled path becomes a path and again a cobbled path and finally comes out on the beach of Kalamos. At this point there is a hiking sign nailed to a PPC pole.