Traveling Informations

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Traveling to Nisyros (Informations current in 2006)

 
  1. via Kardamena

    2. Take the aeroplane to Kos. Take a taxi to Kardamena.
    In the low season and the main season every day tourist-boats leave the harbour of Kardamena in the morning to go to Nisyros. Ask for the departure times (the trip takes about 1 h). All day in the afternoon the "Agios Konstantinos" or "Nisyros" goes from Kardamena to Nisyros.

    Attention! If the weather is worse (stormy) the boats must stay in the harbour.
     



    Agios Konstantinos and Nisyros: daily from Kardamena (Kos) to Mandraki (Nisyros)
     

  2. via Kos-Stadt

    3. Take the aeroplane to Kos. Take a taxi to Kos-Town.
    In the low season and the main season several times a week tourist-boats leave the harbour of Kos in the morning to go to Nisyros. Ask for the departure times (the trip takes about 2 h).
    Two times a week a big ferryboat, coming from Athens, goes to Nisyros ant further to Rhodes. Ask for the departure times (the trip takes about 2 h)
    Attention! If the weather is worse (stormy) first little boats, if the storm is more strong the big boats too, must stay in the harbour. If the storm is strong, it is possible that big ferryboats are allowed to leave the harbour but can not dock on Nisyros, so they have to pass by (next harbour in Tilos).

     

  3. via Rhodes

    4. Take the aeroplane to Rhodes. Take a taxi to the harbour.
    In the low season and the main season once a week (monday in 2005 season) the "Sea Star", a catamaran-ferryboat, leaves Rhodes to go to Tilos and further to Nisyros. Ask for the departure times (the trip takes about 2 h, perhaps with an interrupt in Tilos).
    Sea Star Office Rhodes Tel. 0030 22410 77048    Sea Star Office Tilos  0030 22460 44000
    Schedules of the "Sea Star" and the big ferryboats you can find in the internet (see links).

    This year (2005) there was also a flying dolphin at friday direct from Rhodes to Nisyros.


    Sea Star: once a week from Rhodes to Nisyros

    Two times a week a big ferryboat, leaves Rhodes via Tilos (perhaps additional via Symi) to Nisyros and then further to Athens. Ask for the departure times (the trip takes about 4 h - 6 h) or look to the internet.

    Attention! If the weather is worse (stormy) first little boats, if the storm is more strong the big boats too, must stay in the harbour. If the storm is strong, it is possible that big ferryboats are allowed to leave the harbour but can not dock on Nisyros, so they have to pass by (next harbour in Kos).
     

Traveling back

On weekdays at about 7:00 in the morning with the  "Agios Konstantinos" or "Nisyros" from Mandraki to Kardamena.
Dayly the tourist boates part at about 15:30 Uhr back to Kardamena or Kos-town.
Big ferryboats to Kos or Rhodes
Sea Star to Rhodes.
 

     
Traveling on Nisyros (Informations current in 2006)
     
  1. Public Bus

    2. On Nisyros the public bus goes several times a day from Mandraki to Nikia und back. It is free of charge.
    There is an official schedule, but it only  describes the departure time in Mandraki. The ral route varies and therefore the departure times of the other villages can only be rough estimated (driving time Mandraki - Pali 5 - 10 Min., Mandraki - Emborios 15 - 20 Min., Nikia - Emborios 10 Min, Nikia - Pali 20 - 25 Min.). It's all right to be at the bus stop just before the given or estimated departure times.
    For the really route and departure times of the bus it is best to ask the bus-driver if you can speek enough greek for this little conversation.
     

    In the early season there is only twice a day from monday to friday a bus. At the weekend and in the school-holydays (Whitsun) the bus dosn't go.
     


    The public bus of the Nisyros community : several times a day from Mandraki to Nikia and back
     

     

  2. Volcano bus

    3. In the low season and the main season, when the tourist boats from Kos are coming, busses go from mandraki to the volcano and back (often several departures between 11:00 and 13:00 with a 45 Min. stay at the volcano). Sometimes tickets are left and will be sold by the traveling agencies in the harbour just before departures of the busses.
     
     
  3. Taxi

    4. There are two taxis on Nisyros. In Mandraki, Pali, Emborios and Nikia you can call one by a public telephone (buy a telephone-card before!). In Mandraki and Pali, as well as on a lot of further places on Nisyros there is mobile phone available, e.g. at the Lies beach (dial the international number for greece if necessary with your cell-phone, 0030 + telephone number)
    Telephone 22420 31460   Mobile 6945 639723
    Telephone 22420 31474
     

28.01.2008 by Beate und Dr. Juergen Franke

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