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Psimythos: The fantastic Greek island threatened by sudden popularity

August 25, 2024 FEATURED, Tourism, Travel 2 Comments 1,957 Views

Psimythos, the fantastic Greek island has gone viral on internet since Saturday afternoon. For years the island was just a secret among insiders. But now after it gained popularity on social media, it is threatened to fall victim to everything swallowing tourism industry.

It was started with a tweet on X – formerly Twitter – by user @beatbukowki who wrote everybody who has been on the fantastic island called Psimythos should spread the word.

The tweet fell like a bombshell on Greeks’ mobile screens on a boring Saturday afternoon and triggered the curiosity and inspiration of hundreds internet users who are literally fed up with misery news about high cost of living, failed infrastructure, failed state and failed opposition and are desperately looking for an untouched place to take a breath.

The first question they all asked about the island they never heard before was: Where is Psimythos?

Some claimed it was near Rhodes, others close to Leros or Limnos and some located it south of Crete.

Then everybody started checking online for ferry or flight tickets with one Greek to got angry about 235 euros for a plane ticket. Of course, tips for the best beaches, taverns and bars, local specialties, summer fiestas and kids activity programs were of highest interest.

Insiders already on the island posted pictures of current or past vacations.

A woman wrote that she married her husband on the island in 1972 and they celebrated the wedding at the only tavern.

Even KTG, an insider of everything, could not resist the temptation and praised the island’s wild beauty and turquoise waters.

And some upgraded commenting with references to current issues, such as the high number of missing tourists in Greece summer 2024 or the absence of medical facilities and doctors on islands, in remote and not so remote areas.

The beauties of Psimythos

For years, the small, picturesque island with its turquoise waters and wild beauty.

Antiparos Castle

It has been the summer refuge for alternative vacations, cheap prices and friendly locals who would treat every visitor as a family member coming home from a very long trip.

Psimythos has been famous not only for its rare fauna and flora but also its unique cuisine with naturally grown vegetables and fruits, fresh fish and sea food form the sea to the pan, bio cheese and eggs and tenderly tasty goat meat dishes.

Without practical presence on internet or the booking websites, Psimythos, has been promoted from insiders’ mouth to selected ears, to all those who wanted to avoid the flow of mass tourism of recent years, the non-stop noise of beach bars, the fight of the sunbeds, a miserable Greek salad for 15 euros and a luke-warm mousaka from yesterday for a 20-euro banknote.

However, now the sudden popularity threatens to ruin for ever the last paradise on Greek earth and turn it into a vital part of the tourism industry of the country, an airbnb and beach bar hell on the Greek soil with flocks of visitors running around.

Yes, some Greek got already shocked about the new conditions on Psimythos…

Another user warned that he will fck everyone, if even one foreigner asks him for Psimythos information at the tourism fair abroad where he participates in two months.

In case, you still wonder “where is Psimythos?” after reading this post I’ll roughly translate @beatbukowski’s post:

“Find a fake name for an island, Psimythos for example, nad tell your friends that this year’s trend was there. You haven’t been to Psimythos? It’s fcking, freaking fabulous, man!”

Psimythos: the – literally and metaphorically – fantastic Greek island in 2024. If you still can’t find it try “Anti-Psimythos”, it’s even cheaper I heard.

PS Pictures on the post are from KTG’s trip to Antiparos.

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2 comments

  1. Jeannine
    August 26, 2024 at 12:23 am

    You fooled me, especially with the description of the food! I think I salivated while reading it. However, the pic of dozens of free campers on top of each other scared me off, as I imagined the perimeter of the area lined with toilet papers and urine puddles (as I have come across in Greece camping).

    And south of Crete as a suggestion, made me think of Gavdos, also without a doctor and all tourists sick with some virus.

  2. kriestel
    August 26, 2024 at 7:46 am

    lol

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