Kalymnos highlights...

Trekking Kalymnos

Kalymnos offers adventurous holidays and a variety of choices to the visitors. Apart from its beaches, it offers mountains for mountaineering and rock climbing. There are also other choices, like surfing, mountain biking, hiking, yaughting, and of course diving.

Kalymnos is considered to be the closest destination for most climbers. The limestone, climbing the stalactites and the number of caves have contributed to Kalymnos being characterized as one of best locations “in the world of climbers” by magazines like “Vertical”, “Klettern”, “Climbing” and “Desnivel”.

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Art, heritage and culture

Kalymnos, the island of the sponge divers, is the fourth largest island of Dodecanese, with an expanse of 107 square kilometers. It is situated between Kos and Leros and is surrounded by quite a few little islands.

In general, the island is mountainous with two small valleys full of lemon trees and many herbs like thyme, sage and oregano from which Kalymnian honey gets its aroma. The impressive rocky sides of the island makes it ideal for rock climbing. This is why Kalymnos is known as the paradise of climbers.

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