Poros

The first sight of Poros comes as the ferry rounds the northern promontory and enters the narrow channel between the islands and the Peloponnese mainland.

A pretty jumble of red-roofed houses rising up from the shoreline , craft of all sizes come and go, weaving around each other like shoppers in a crowded marketplace .

All this activity provides endless free entertainment for the audience in the harbour front taverns and cafes.

Most of the population live here in the main town .on the tiny volcanic outcrop of Sferia, divided from the sparsely populated main part of Poros by a narrow canal.

Askeli Bay , just out of town on the way to the Monastery of the Spring of Life, is where most of the newer tourist accommodation has sprung up amongst the pine and citrus groves on the hillsides above the shaded shingle beach.

Poros offers watersports a wide choice of restaurants a couple of discos and host of lively bars . and suits couples and singles better than families .

Island hopping to Spetse, Aegina and Hydra is easy, and costs very little to take your hire push-bike across to the near by mainland to discover sandy beaches and unspoiled villages.

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