Chálki

Embracing a horseshoe harbour, Chálki is a miniature version of nearby Symi. Although there are excursions from nearby Rhodes, it doesn’t suffer from Symi’s surfeit of daytrippers – there really isn’t that much to do in a few hours, anyway, although there is a diving school where you can go under in the waters so clear you can see 40m down.

Chálki was known for a while as the ‘Island of Peace and Friendship’ as it once hosted a international youth congress, but it’s a good nickname that fits the island well. It’s also the first Gr-Eco Island to make the transition from fossil fuels, complete with new a solar farm, electric vehicles and a solar powered boat for excursions to distant beaches.