Pachis Beach

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Pachis beach Thassos

PACHIS beach Thassos is a long strip of pine-shaded sand located about 6km west of the main Thassos port resort of Limenas, and found off the main road just before reaching Skala Rachonis.
Pachis beach can be easy to miss as there is no village and the main road is fairly long and straight so drivers tend to pass by the beach at speed.
The turn-off is an unsignposted track between the trees Pachis beach is just before the road swings south-west and nears the seashore. The beach is also unmarked on maps.
The only sign of the beach is a sand and gravel car park under the trees and a road that leads down to the sea past a small hotel/taverna in the trees. There is a large shady parking area directly opposite the hotel.
A rough track leads down to the beacn where a beach taverna will be heard before it is seen, such is the owner's taste for loud disco music. Many escape the noise by heading north along the long, sandy beach that stretches for 1km or so.
Sunbeds and parasols are strung out along the shore there is plenty of shade among the scattered pines the cover the back of Pachis beach.
Another smaller and quieter taverna nestles among the trees before the beach thins out and the sunbeds disappear. The sand turns more to shingle here and there are rocks underfoot out to sea. The beach ends beneath the concrete sea wall of another small hotel complex.
As the nearest sandy beach to Limenas, apart from Makryammos in the other direction, Pachis beach gets a fair bit of custom, but not a great deal as it is relatively unknown, goes unremarked upon Thassos websites and, as far as I can find, appears on few Thassos island maps.