Diafani (Karpathos)

Diafani: The village and bay with a motor boat on the small quay, centre right.

Diafani: The village and bay with a motor boat on the small quay, centre right.

The village’s own website sums the place up quite nicely when it says the locals’ main activity is watching the boats arrive!

Many of the boats come to deliver visitors to Olymbos, about 10km inland, and reputedly one of the prettiest villages in Greece, a claim that in itself leaves me fearing disappointment.

The village has a pebbly beach, a handful of restaurants and a shop offering basic provisions. It’s relatively green and there are some attractive walks but this is otherwise a place that sells itself on the lack of activities. As the village website says; no night life, no entertainment centres, no cloths shops, no car hire, no big hotels, no package tours.

So what’s not to like!

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