Blue skies, bright sunlight, white beaches, and crystal-clear water: These are the ingredients of a perfect holiday, especially when traveling by kayak and tent, bringing everything necessary for adventure with you. Greece delivers it all. With over 15,000 kilometers of coastline and more than three thousand islands, Greece sounds like more than a "good" destination — it sounds like a sea kayaker’s paradise. Yet there is one place, in particular, that should top the list: The Ionian Islands.
"if you arrive in Zakynthos with perfect weather, and if you have a brilliant plan in your pocket, you can hardly find a more beautiful place to kayak and camp."
Why the Ionian Islands?
If there are so many islands and thousands of kilometers of beautiful coastline in Greece, why should you choose the Ionian Islands? There are many reasons why I regularly come back to this place where my love of Greece began. As a child, my parents and I spent every year's holiday in this beautiful country, mostly at the Ionian Sea. Now, thirty years later, my wife Nadja and I still spend many weeks a year in Greece, traveling around and showing the fantastic world of the Ionian Islands to people every year with our kayak school, OutdoorDirekt, or simply enjoying a little escape for ourselves.
The Ionian Islands are a group of seven main islands located in the very northwest corner of Greece, directly across from the Albanian border and near the European mainland. Go one hundred kilometers west on the map, and you will find Italy. This geographical location brings many benefits; the first—and most important— is access
