When I ask Lemonia, my 75-year-old neighbor, if I should take her to Agia Kyriaki, she beams from ear to ear. If she sits in this warm water at least six times in the fall, then she is firmly convinced that she will definitely not have rheumatism in the winter. She can’t pay for a taxi, otherwise how would she get to the springs on the north side of the island?
Lemonia with a plastic bag on her head and “hot” sunglasses. Am I not like a lady from Paris, she said?
The spring is located right behind the airport, i.e. north of it below the old, unpaved road that leads up to the windmill at the top of the pass.
Of course, as is so often the case in Ikaria, nothing is marked at all, so it is, in a sense, an insider tip.
I have no choice but to show you the way using a few photos.
Start at the airport: we don’t take the road towards Agios Kyrikos, but in the opposite direction; Coming out of the airport building, the street is on the right. This road, still tarred, leads steeply up in a slight left-hand bend. Soon things will get bumpy. Once at the top, after about 150 m, a path leads down to the right to a small hamlet with a new harbor pier and a small church. If you want to go to the source, you don’t go down there.
If you want to get to the source, walk/drive about 25m further down to the right to a few, mostly abandoned houses.
You will find the source easily using the pictures. It’s hard to believe, there’s even a deluxe changing room! In general, Agia Kyriaki is less hot than Leukada. We shouldn’t care about that, it’s just nice to sit in the warm water, enjoy and look at the sea and the surrounding hills. What more do you want?
The red car looks in the direction to go, past this gray “block”.
straight past the block,
after the fence on the right
There is also the “De Luxe” changing room and behind it you climb into the water
Enjoyable bath in the “seat tub”
That’s what I call a spa with a view
A report by Edith Bühler Jud