This is the shortest of our routes, but perhaps the most famous.
Just 1.5km around the Vouliagmeni Bay will leave you wanting more. You don’t really need a map for this one because you can basically see your path the whole way around the semi-circular bay. If you start near lake Vouliagmeni, you’ll be higher up with a great view of the bay, the beaches and the water sports. This is the winter surfing hot spot for the Athenian surfers.

Continue on down towards the main beach and curve around toward the point. You’ll pass by many Athens Riveria legendary restaurants and the famous Astir Palace Resort.

Walking near the beach and depending on the weather, you will feel the opera of the sea hearing the wave-music. It’s like walking through an airy route of sky and sound. The mermaid’s call of the waves reaches out to you and you have to resist its siren call to enter.

The beach that you are walking on is an enchanting paradise. It is half-moon shaped and there are no heaving waves to be seen, merely wave-grooves in the sand.The sea is a cerulean-blue gown and the beach seems dipped in earthshine-gold.

The pulsing heart of the sea causes a gentle swell and the waves cascading onto the shore have that ancient alchemy of purr-and-pound. When they uncoil, it is like an old, vellum parchment is unrolling in front of your eyes scripting a secret message.

If you could read the script, it would probably say just two words a hundred, hundred thousand times; never leave.