Mount Athos peninsula is located in northern Greece, Central Macedonia, at Halkidiki, next of Aristotelis area. Every day hundreds of people visiting Mount Athos area, pilgrims, monks and workers using the Mount Athos ferries boats which depart from Ierissos and Ouranoupolis port.
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Mount Athos Ferries lines
Daily, there are departures to Mount Athos from Ouranoupolis and Ierissós port, it’s the only way to visit Mount Athos.
If you’d wish to visit Mount Athos’s peninsula east part you have to use the speed boat that departs from Ierissós port, but if the monastery you’d wish to visit is located at the south west part of Mount Athos you have to use the ferry or the speed boat that departs from Ouranoupolis port.
According to the Mount Athos ferries official sites there is only one departure per day from Ierissós port to the east part of Mount Athos peninsula at 08.35 in the morning
If you’d like to visit Mount Athos’s west part you have to reach Ouranoupolis port, the official site of Mount Athos ferry lines mentions that there are three departures per day, if you’d like to use a speed boat,
- 08.00 am
- 08.45 am
- 11.00 am
Also there are two departures on the busy days of the week if you’d like to travel using a ferry boat
- 06.30 am
- 09.45 am
On Saturday the first departure is at 07.00 am and there is no any 06.30 am and on Sunday the 06.30 am departure doesn’t exists also and there are two departures, the one at 09.45 am and the second one at 10.30 am.
in any case it would be wise to call the Mount Athos ferries companies or the local port authorities (Ouranoupolis or Ierissós port authorities) before you start planing your trip.
Speed boat taxis
If you are late and you missed the speed boats and the ferries, or you prefer to go faster to your destination you can always use a speed boat taxi.
There are a lot of them, and usually they can transfer up to 8 passengers, their maximum speed can reach the 28 knots per hour and that’s really fast.
You can call the Mount Athos Ferry lines company to hire a speed boat taxi and plan your own schedule.
FAQs
How can I visit Mount Athos?
First you have to request a permition like a VISA, once they’ll inform you on which date the permition will be issued, you will travel to Ierissos or Ouranoupolis to get your VISA and then to buy your tickets for the ferry that departs to Mount Athos.
How women can visit Mount Athos?
Mount Athos Avaton law says that no women can have access on the peninsula of the Holy Mount Athos, the only way for a women nowadays to be closer to the monastic world is to join a Mount Athos tour that departs from Ouranoupolis port, book your tickets here https://athos-cruises.gr/cruise-1-ouranoupolis-to-mount-athos/
Is there any other way of visiting Mount Athos except using a ferry or a speed boat?
The only way you can visit Mount Athos peninsula is by using a sea transportation, Mount Athos peninsula is not an island but you can’t access it by any road, cause there is no any road indeed.
Is there any dress code that visitors of Mount Athos have to use?
Visitors of Mount Athos have to wear common trousers and classic shirts, not any of t-shirts or shorts, Mount Athos peninsula it is a holy area for Orthodox Christians and by wearing the right clothes you can show that you respect the area.
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