Holidays to Tsilivi

If you like your vibes chilled, your sands white, your waters turquoise and your dinners Greek, a holiday to Tsilivi in Zakynthos is what you’ve been looking for.

By boat is the GOAT

All shining sands, luscious green backdrops and terracotta-topped tavernas, Tsilivi’s beach is picture-postcard Greece. And while you’ll want to spend much of your holiday here, the coast is also a portal to plenty more fun.

Hop on a boat after brekkie and you can take in the heavenly hues of the Blue Caves, enjoy the mineral-rich muds of Xigia Beach and say hello to a monk seal – all before tea time!

It’s all ancient Greek to me

Well, maybe not all of it. Tsilivi’s Venetian Watch Tower is, relatively speaking, a lot more recent. And the Venetian Castle of Zakynthos, just ten minutes outside of town, is in remarkably good nick considering it’s clocked up over 400 years.

Stranis Hill is well worth a wander too. Its monument may be the landmark, but it’s the views across the island that are truly monumental. Fan of forts? Who isn’t! Vardiola – or Viglatsoura to the locals – has you covered.

You feta believe it

As far as food is concerned, Greece sets the bar as high as Mount Olympus – and Zakynthian cuisine is fit for the Greek gods. Honey and goat cheese, souvlaki and spetsofai (a local fave made of sausage, peppers and tomatoes) are on the do-not-miss list.

Live it up and chow it down like a local at Avli Taverna with stamna beef stew and ‘Chicken a la Zante’. For healthy steaks under the Grecian sky, carnivore ‘til you can’t no more at Palatium.

Turtle-y awesome

Tsilivi’s most famous residents are bald with a hard outer exterior. No, not Dwayne Johnson – we’re talking about loggerhead sea turtles. The locals go to great lengths to protect these endangered species, so the least you can do is pop by the National Marine Park Area to say hello!

Make sure to bring your snorkel to Turtle Island too. It’s the perfect spot to swim beneath the waves and make some reptilian friends.