Discover The West Side of Mytilene - Full-Day Tour - Lesvos

First we stop in the village of Vatoussa, a mountain village with a picturesque square for a coffee or traditional Greek pastries (not included in ticket price). Vatoussa is a village of Lesvos and one of the five traditional settlements of the island, characterized by the Ministry of Culture.

Then we will head towards the village of Sigri and on the way we visit the beautiful monastery Moni Ipsilou. It is an active men's monastery, dedicated to St John Theologos, on the top of Mt Ordymnos, at a height of 634 metres. Expect some amazing views. In Sigri you can visit the Geological Museum of the Petrified Forest . The interior spaces within the museum, diffused with natural light from the glass roofs and windows, are organized around a central courtyard in which impressive fossilized trunks side by side with their present day counterparts wonderfully depict the flora of the Aegean 20 million years ago. The exterior spaces are impressive as well.

The Byzantine Monastery of Ipsilou (Lesvos) is dedicated to Agios Ioannis Theologos and is in the western part of the island on top of Mount Ordymnos at a altitude of 634 meters and at a distance of 81 km from Mytilene Town. Tradition places the foundation of the monastery during the Byzantine period before 800 AD. A museum with unique relics and six reliquaries with the bones of Saints found here.

Sigri is the land that time forgot, the most remote tourist destination in Greece. The village is a chaotic hodgepodge of summer houses, rent rooms and hotels clustered around a small fishing harbor, a Turkish castle, and the town beach where most people staying here swim.

We will have free time to swim and sunbathe on the sandy beach of the village or enjoy a nice meal at the local taverns .