Orkos Beach
Orkos House is situated about 200 metres from two small beaches and a cove.

Orkos House 
Naxos

Parthenos Beach                      
The house can just be seen on the sky line above the boat.

Nearby Cove

Orkos Beach
View towards Mikri Vigla

Mikri Vigla
500 metres to the South of the house is the village of Mikri Vigla.
It has a large beach - Parthenos - popular with windsurfers.

View back towards
Orkos House along
Plaka Beach

Northern end of
Plaka Beach

Parthenos beach is popular with windsurfers. Flisvos and Thalasea Sports have a Wind/Kite Surfing Centre there.
The village of Mikri Vigla is set around a headland (Mikri Vigla means look out).  It has about seven tavernas and two supermarkets.
It has another beach to the south of the headland which is effectively the north of Kastraki beach. It is sheltered when a breeze is blowing on Parthenos beach. It has an excellent taverna on the beach.

Plaka Beach
A kilometre north of the house is the southern end of Plaka Beach.

View from Taverna on Mikri Vigla beach

View towards Parthenos
Beach from Orkos House

Plaka Beach stretches some four kilometres from Aghia Anna to Orkos. It is backed by various restaurants, accomodation and a campsite near Aghia Anna. It is a beautiful beach and rarely feels too crowded, even in August.
Behind it is the fertile Plaka valley with a network of fields, the small chapel of Aghia Matteus and the remains of a Hellenistic tower.
A dirt road goes along the valley from Orkos and joins Plaka Beach halfway along. It then follows the beach to Aghia Anna.