The Route, part 1

The E4 path starts from the city of Kissamos goes along a asphalt-road in the western coastline to the paradise like beach of Elaffonissi. From there the route jumps of the paved roads and "really" starts.

                                       Here's our planned route, roughly sketched.


The path followes the southern coastline through the city of Paleochora to the town called Sougia. From there the path splits in to two sections, one that followes the coast 'till Frangokastello and one that climbs to the white mountains from Sougia. The second one is our planned route.

From Sougia our route goes probably via Agia Irini Gorge to the Omalos plain and to the start point of Samaria Gorge, as the path via Koustoreako to Xyloskala ( The Greek name to the "wooden stairs" that starts the Gorge ) is ( on our knowledge ) damaged and so it isn't safe enough. From Xyloskala, path goes to the Kallergi refuge, where we hope that we can spent our first night in the Lefka Ori, the White Mountains.