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Approximately  4 miles (2 hours)

Moderate

Ascent:- 190 feet

Refreshments:- None

This walk takes you from the village of Kouspades along quiet village roads passing through  allotments and then eventually along tracks through olive groves back to Kouspades.

The walk starts in the village of Kouspades. Parking here is limited therefore you may wish  to start the walk from Boukari.

Take the road through Kouspades towards Vasilatika, then take the second road on the right down through the village. Ignoring a turn to the left carry on downhill. At the junction bear left. Turn left along the main road towards Petriti and turn right at the sign to Aghios Nikolaos. Cross the bridge over the stream and then turn right at the next concrete road passing an industrial shed on your left hand side. After passing a small church on the right turn right down a track. Here there are views to the right of Kouspades and Hlomos on the top of the hill.

The track becomes grass and eventually passes by grape vines on the left and then goes between grape vines and then you walk along the right hand edge of a small field. Turn left at a further row of grape vines on the right hand side and then right at a small fig tree walking around an allotment. You then turn left by more grape vines on your right hand side, then right again before the next plot of land, keeping a wire fence on your left,then left again still keeping the wire fence on your left and bearing right at the end  of the left hand fence. Carry on bearing around to the right to reach a concrete bridge between bamboos on the left hand side. Carry on over this bridge.

     

Turn right where a track joins and pass a church on the left with views of Kouspades to the right and Hlomos ahead. At the main road turn right and then opposite the Tzamia door and window shop turn left onto a small path passing a well on the right. Continue on through the olive grove and turn left at a barbed wire fence. Ignore the track to the right in the olive grove near a hut and go straight on at crossing tracks, then left at next junction and immediately right at the next junction onto a small concrete road. Carry on uphill ignoring tracks to the left. Turn left up the road at the first pink house on the right bearing around to the left by a big house and carry on up between houses to junction. Here turn left ignoring passing tracks to houses. Ignore a track to the left and turn right by a left hand concrete wall, then right again downhill through houses bearing around to the left and then to the right ignoring roads to the left at the bottom of the hill and bear around to the right passing a wood yard on the right back to the main Kouspades village road.