Day-by-day trail itinerary

Corfu Trail: 8-day itinerary

Two unlike halves. The trail turns its back on Kavos and runs south first, to the ruined Arkoudilas monastery on the clay cliffs at the tip of the island, then drops to the beach and climbs the cliff again into fields and shady olive-grove tracks. After Lefkimmi it becomes dirt roads across the southern plain, flat, agricultural and quiet, with nothing on the line itself for hours and little to look at beyond the next olive terrace. It improves at the coast: shore walking to Agios Georgios, then a strip of dunes carrying a juniper forest between the sea and Lake Korission, where soft sand makes the going slower than the contours suggest. It finishes on tracks and a stretch of road above the coast to Paramonas.