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Category: Greek Island villages and towns
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Top 6 memories of my Mykonos holiday in 2012 #2: Exploring the streets of Mykonos Town
A hillside view overlooking Mykonos Town and its harbour area
Lots to see: Unlike a lot of visitors, I never get bored of Mykonos Town. Many people think they’ve seen all that’s worth seeing after they walk along the harbourside, visit Little Venice, and stroll some of the narrow, twisting streets.
But those people see only the highly commercial, touristy side of Mykonos Town — the lanes lined with jewellery stores, T-shirt shops and tavernas. They don’t wander far enough away from the main tourist zone to walk the quiet residential streets or climb to hillside lookout points that offer amazing views over the town, harbour and beyond.
Even after 7 separate visits to Mykonos, each of which has included a lot of walking around town, I still keep discovering streets and vantage points I’ve never seen in my favourite Greek Island town.
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Looking up … and looking down at Plaka village, the mountaintop capital of Milos island
This is how the village of Plaka, the charming mountaintop capital of Milos, appears when viewed from a sailboat in the Gulf of Milos …
… and this is how Plaka looks when viewed from the white Kastro church at the top of the mountain peak that towers above the village. Several mountains, including the 748-meter Profitis Ilias, rise across the Gulf on the west side of Milos.
