Batsi Beach views

Batsi is a small seaside village, on the west coast of Andros, where we are staying in the lovely Kantouni Pensione while we are working on the Zagora Archaeological Project. There is a map which shows the location of Batsi on Andros in my Intro to Andros post.

Andros is generally less ‘touristy’ than other Greek islands. Those tourists who come tend to be Greek rather than international tourists. And now (November) that the weather is getting cooler, there seem to be few tourists of any kind around. The winter population of Batsi is 600-700 people – but this swells to some 3000 during summer. So our experience here feels authentically Greek.

Here are some views of Batsi Beach shot along the waterfront.

Panorama of Batsi Beach
Panorama of Batsi Beach; &copy AAIA; photo by Andrew Wilson

The southern end of Batsi Beach
The southern end of Batsi Beach © PHM; photo by Irma Havlicek
The northern end of Batsi Beach
The northern end of Batsi Beach; the umbrellas you can see at the end of the beach are just in front of the Kantouni Pensione, where we are staying © PHM; photo by Irma Havlicek
One of the restaurants at Batsi
One of the restaurants at Batsi © PHM; photo by Irma Havlicek
Buildings at the southern end of Batsi Beach
Buildings at the southern end of Batsi Beach © PHM; photo by Irma Havlicek
Buildings at the southern end of Batsi Beach
Buildings at the southern end of Batsi Beach © PHM; photo by Irma Havlicek
Batsi Beach and the hill beyond
Batsi Beach and the hill beyond © PHM; photo by Irma Havlicek

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4 thoughts on “Batsi Beach views”

  1. Hallo, we (Gisela and Bruno) were staying in Batsi between 17.11. and 28.11. 2012 and we saw your team there. I’m a little bit sad, that I don’t contact you and talk with you, because i’m very interested in archeological things. But now i informed very well by your Zagora and Andros blog, which I enjoy very well. Thank yo for all the articels and pictures and good luck for working at Zagora.

    Bruno

    • Hi there Bruno and Gisela
      Thankyou for your kind comments; we’re so glad you’re finding the blog interesting. Leonidas of the seafood restaurant mentioned that there were two people visiting from Germany who were interested in our work here; I wonder if that was you. It would have been good to meet and talk with you; but hopefully this blog is the next best thing. Feel free to ask questions, if you have any, and I can pass them on to our archaeologists. Cheers

    • Hi, thank you for your answer. I’m glad of the new articles, especially of the news of the trip to the sacred Delos island. Did you go by ship to Mykonos und from there to Delos and is it possible to do it during two days?
      On Andros we were visiting Hypsili walking from Batsi there. Zagora we did only see from the distance, because we heard, the path to the geometric settlement is not so good and the wind very strong. I will read all your articles once in a week and sometimes I like to ask you something.

      With kind regards

      Bruno

    • Hi there Bruno
      Nice to hear from you again, and I’m very glad you’re enjoying our articles.
      We went to Mykonos so we could get the ferry from there to Delos. You can only do a day return ferry trip to Delos because you can’t stay there overnight. But we have heard that quite often, the ferries are cancelled if the sea is rough. Some of our colleagues here have tried and not been able to get to Delos because of rough seas and cancelled ferries. But if the ferry is running, it is quite doable in a couple of days. We left Mykonos at 10am, and returned from Delos to Mykonos at 1pm. We’d have stayed longer if we could but the other ferries that day were cancelled, and we had no choice but to return at 1pm. Visiting Delos was a highlight though and I would recommend it highly. (I’m not sure if you can get a ferry to Delos from places other than Mykonos.)
      I’m glad you got to Hypsili – I didn’t get there but others of our team did.
      Cheers, Irma

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