IOS is located one of the Greek islands Cyclades, in the Aegean sea of 200 kilometers southeast of the mainland gate by Piraeus. It is admits best to receive curtain as a taking part playground for young strange tourist, which come, drunk, their hair down.then left, received even as more drunk as possible. Despite its reputation as that the hardness for inebriated Teens and twenty somethings, IOS has more for offering than trance -, dance and tequilacocktails. The island is impregnated in history, peppered with pretty Chapels and churches and gesegnet with beautiful unspoiltstraenden. It is also the alleged standing place of one of the largest at all literary masters of the world - the Greek poet Homer, creator of the Epicarbeiten the Iliad and the Odyssey. Theories about the origin of the name of the island have abundance, but a probable one is that it derives those from the violet ones ("Ion "auf Greeks) the slopes in the jumping time decorates. Others say that the name of the ionischen people comes, which inhabited these islands around 1050 BC. The island is at the southern end of the Cyclades, an seven-hour ferry travel of Piraeus. Take hydrofoil received from the mainland and you there in four hours. There is no airport, but Santorini, which has regular olympic airline flights to the mainland, is only half hour away by Flying Dolphin. There are good ferry and hydrofoilverbindungen with the neighbouring islands in the Archipelago including Paros, Naxos, Mykonos, Sikinos, Folegandros, Anafi and Syros. They arrive in the gate of Ormos on the west coast of the island, which is two kilometers of the HauptHora (also well-known as IOS city or the village). The gate had once a coming up ship building industry, which was based on the building timber of the oakwood, which covered the island in the old time. Regular penalty the gate and the city or, if you are traveling light, you attaches can the broad stone steps climb, which lead the hill up to the village (way of approximately 15 minute). The city is a wonderful concoction the tightness, arcaded ways, blue-curved Chapels and traditional whitewashed houses. But you watch out its condition Jekyll and Hyde - until day it is a wonderful place for roaming across under the churches, the windmills and the taxes on donations inter vivos; until night, which it one seething mass of youthful, drunken humanity is, hell-bent on maximum Mayhem to dawn. Remain yourselves within the haven range or bringing you to one closer of the calmer beaches of the island, if you are not a serious taking part animal. The main focus of the activity until day is the beautiful however frantic beach Mylopotas, a kilometer down the hill of Hora. This is, where the bright recent things after noon of their beachsidezelten, down a shot or three and the beginning, that again partying is surface. But you go finding you further on the field and much secluded the bays, in which the involved never stopped ventures. There are calm Meerestiertavernas, in which you know Savour the bolting device of the daily and if you are during many pious Festivals the island to visit, you in that, the LOCALS for to connect traditional Greek knee above. The experience by to an island celebration to be invited is not one which can be missed - the meat is cooked over a wooden fire, flows the wine free and dancing continues to dawn
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