Car Rental Karpathos Airport

KARPATHOS is a Greek island in the Eastern Aegean Sea between Rhodes and Crete. With 5400 located about 330 square kilometres, it is rather sparsely populated and have been spared up to now by mass tourism. The long drawn from the North to the South Island is very mountainous and 1215 meters, the Lake represents the highest point in KARPATHOS.3000 Inhabitants live alone in KARPATHOS city, the largest village of the island, the already 1000 years BC. Was founded. Formerly it was known as city of Poseidon while known today under the name Pigadia.

KARPATHOS town because of numerous raids by pirates was abandoned in the middle ages and its inhabitants fled at the time in the mountains and founded the town Olymbos known today also far beyond the borders of the island. The relatively large village is picturesquely situated on a hillside and is almost not visible from the coast. The special thing about this settlement, which is connected to the grid until 1980, is the preservation of the original customs and traditions which are here maintained to this day. The magical there seems more like an open-air museum on KARPATHOS and the villagers have made a virtue of necessity by the tourist old crafts and costumes, they present. Also here one of the last, typical for the region, windmills operated, visitors can obtain traditional dishes, such as the dark bread from the stone oven. Recently, Olymbos is achieving with a rental car on a new asphalt road.

KARPATHOS has its own airport and is popular mainly among surfers because of their wind statistics. Known locations are where the gun and Devils Bay.