"Paxos - The Jewel of the Ionians " a Paxoi Island Travel Page by XenosUK

Paxos is situated in the Ionian Sea, a few miles south of Corfu. It covers an area of only about 19 sq km, so is small enough to get around easily but big enough not to get bored with.

My reason for describing it as the Jewel of the Ionian (apart from the fact that I love it so much!) is that the whole island is covered in olive and cypress trees, so from the air it resembles a beautiful emerald in a saphire and turquoise sea.

We first went to Paxos in 1992 and have been returning ever since. To see why, take a look at my photos on these pages!

The official Paxos homepage has more excellent photos and information to get you started on planning a trip to Paxos -

http://www.paxos-greece.com/index.htm

More photos in my gallery at

http://www.agni.gr/gallery/show_gallery.asp?gallery=ElaineK

Loggos is the tiniest of the 3 main villages on Paxos and, for us at least, it just seems the friendliest and least spoilt. It's everyone's idea of a typical Greek fishing village.

One of their major concession to tourism was to string a row of fairy lights along the harbour front about 5 years ago, but each year we went back, more and more bulbs were in need of replacing, and by 2003 they had taken it down altogether! It has about half a dozen tavernas, the same number of bars and a handful of shops - so everything you need really.