Greek islands

The Greek islands are the most beautiful and the best place to visit in Greece if you are camping, according an opinion of avarage greek person. There are about 1400 islands in Greece. Hitchhiking the cars is a way easier than on mainland! Not only locals are stopping but also tourists do. Hitchhiking a boat may be possible too. Hitchhiking a ferry from mainland to an island can be difficult: usual method of asking the truckdrivers (and other drivers) is not working as they have to pay for every passenger, not just for the vehicle.

Some islands are

• Crete
• Corfu or Kerkya,
• Chios, the best for hitching!
• Lesbos or Lesvos,
• Elafonissos,
• Lefkada,
• Kefallonia,
• Ithaka,
• Samos
• Samothraki
• Mykonos
• Syros
• Santorini (Thira).

On Ikaria almost every driver is taking you, but they are usually not going very far and there are not many cars.

The ferry from Samos (Greece) to Kuşadası (Turkey) is a tourist passenger ferry and costs 30 Euro plus 10 Euro Turkish port tax which is a lot more than the regular Greek ferry (deck ticket) prices.

Peculiarity of small islands

The main problem on the island can be lack of people staying there so be careful picking up a date (and time) of your travel. It's not really a thing to think about if you are staying in the big islands (as Create, or touristic ones) but when we speak about non touristic ones (as Samothraki), there it can be an issue.

Time: Not every tourist is an early bird, so there is no reason to hitchhike in the morning. If you are staying on the beach be prepared that tourists will be going out of there at the coming of the dark (7-9 p.m. according the month). So, afterwards you'll stay alone on the beach - good time for a wild overnight. The same logic works backwards: tourists come in the beach at 10-12 a.m. however they going to stay there till the evening, so it will be hard to hitchhike before that time, because there is no traffic.

Date: During the summer there is no problem with lack of people, however if you are brave enough to spend your time on tiny island out of season (winter or autumn) be prepared to be on an abandoned island with no people.