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Lesvos Flights

Lesvos Travel Guide - Traveling to Lesvos

Mytilene International Airport, also known as "Odysseas Elytis", (IATA: MJT - ICAO: LGMT) services both domestic and international flights from many European countries to Lesvos (Lesbos). The Mytilene airport is located 5 Km outside the capital of Lesvos.

Although small and simple, the airport is of good quality and has all basic amenities such as a cafe, car rental companies and a Duty Free shop.

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Lesvos Petrified Forest

Lesvos Travel Guide - Lesvos Petrified Forest

A unique experience that can take you back millions of years. Visitors have the chance to walk amongst geological monuments dating back 20 million years.

In Sigri, near the Holy Monastery of Hypsylou, you can take a long stroll (2.3 km) among the fossils of this natural monument.

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Local Grown Tasty Lesvos Food

Lesvos Travel Guide - Tips on Local Greeks

Lesvos has over 90,000 residents dispersed in small towns or as still called by many, villages. It is wise to drive around the island and taste various locally produced specialties. The olive oil is pure, the cheese full of flavours, the wine and ouzo are excellent, the meat is delicious and the fish is just as fresh as it can get.

There is no doubt: Greece is blessed with a fruitful land and a very rich sea.

Seasonal fruits and vegetables are often grown by locals and become easily accessible to the rest of us via grocery stores, mini markets and even some bigger super markets. A wide variety of imported goods is also available at all local markets.

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Ferries to Lesvos

Lesvos Travel Guide - Traveling to Lesvos

ANEK Lines, Blue Star Ferries, Hellenic Seaways and NEL Lines are the four ferry operators that service routes to and from Lesvos (Lesbos), namely Mytilene and Sigri ports. All four operators offer online reservation, please visit their websites for more information and online ticket reservation.

If you are traveling to Lesvos from Turkey, please visit Ferry Lines website to view ferry schedules departing from Dikili and Foca.

Tsalis Tours - Lesvos based travel agent - may be of great assistance if you wish to book a ferry ticket to Lesvos from mainland Greece. In addition, Tsalis Tours may arrange a ticket for those who travel to and from Turkey and/or other destinations. Please do not hesitate to contact Tsalis Tours friendly and multilingual staff.

Below is the 2010 time-table for ferries arriving to and departing from both Mytilene and Sigri ports; Courtesy of Tsalis Tours.

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Is 10pm Late for Dinner?

Lesvos Travel Guide - Tips on Local Greeks

Greeks have their own sense of time; are late for most appointments and often use the motto: “Why do today what you can do tomorrow?” This easy-going pace of life places dinner, only naturally, at the very end of the day! Going out to dinner or eating in makes no difference as dinner is usually at 10:00 p.m. sometimes even later if it is a hot night.

If you worry it will take you some time to adapt please don’t, as all tavernas and restaurants serve all day, having their menus posted outside their door so one can check out the prices.

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