Arise for an energizing practice and healthy breakfast before meeting your group to join this iconic trek. This is a 5km circular hike accessible to most, combining traditional village charm, rural beauty… and a traditional coffee & sweets ending! Using private transfer private transfer/ on the morning bus from Parikia (10 km), we arrive at Lefkes village, the biggest inland settlement in medieval times. We start at the main village square with a short tour around the labyrinthine alleys and the stacked white-washed houses, visiting chapels, the cathedral and & other picturesque corners of the traditional village that dates back to the 10th c. AD. Then, we find the beginning of the so-called “Byzantine Way”, a stone-paved donkey trail built centuries ago to connect the island’s main villages. We start on a mostly downhill route affording great views to the Paros-Naxos channel and walk on ageold marble rocks that pave the way to Prodromos village. As we go by ancient terraced hillside fields (‘pezoules’), farmers’ stone huts and Byzantine-age stone-built bridges, we admire centuries-old olive trees and savour the sweet scent of the various wild aromatic herbs that border the route (sage, oregano, thyme, wild fennel, honeysuckle and felty germander – ‘Teucrium Polium’). Half-way to Prodromos village, we leave the Byzantine way to start on a winding dirt track through fruit orchards, olive groves and vineyards. The track becomes the old, narrow stone cutters’ trail (that used to connect the village with the nearest marble quarry), which climbs up to the Holy Trinity church (with is sculpted marble iconostasis) and the old square of Lefkes, where our efforts are rewarded with a nice cup of Greek coffee and traditional hand-made cookies and sweets at a local cafe included..