Bikepacking the Island of Corfu, Greece

As part of our bikepacking trip from Turkey to Germany, we rode around the beautiful island of Corfu.

Quiet coastal roads, steep climbs through olive groves, and hidden trails that led to some of the island’s most stunning spots.

I hope you enjoy the ride 📹

Luca ☆

Link to the Route –

Korkyra Groves

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[Music] Hey guys, welcome to a new video on my channel. In the past few weeks, Arisa and I have been cycling our bikes all the way from Turkey to the border of Albania. This video here is mainly about the bike packing route in Greece on the island KFU. It was a really nice escape from the busy roads we have been on in the past few days getting from Athens to KFU. I hope you enjoyed the ride guys and see you on the road. [Music] Yeah, just a short background story. So, basically we started this trip in Istanbul. Cycled all the way down to Kushadasi. We hopped on a ferry to Samos and then from there um we went to Athens and from Athens we cycled all the way to Patras and then from Patras we hopped on a bus to Iguminata and then from Iguminata we hop on another ferry to KFU and that’s how we got there. Okay. [Music] Yeah, we just made it to KFU. It’s already 11:00 p.m. I’m quite chilly actually. I still have my Hero Peter and there was a spot on I Overlander where another where another cyclist slept like a few months ago. So, we’re just going to go there and uh try to make it cozy. [Music] ball. I’ll be not with that with a damn but [Music] Yeah, we just left our last night’s camp spot. There was actually quite beautiful in the morning, but there were so many mosquitoes last night. So, uh we really had to escape into our tent to avoid to get hundreds of uh mosquito bites. And yeah, now we are going to Leo. It’s already open at 7:00 a.m. 7:30. uh have a slow morning and then after that we will go to the bike shop, fix our bikes and get ready for the bike packing route across around KFU. Let’s go. Some cabanosis, sauce, crackers, and some bread. Good morning from Greece. one thorn and I think there was a second one. Eh, I don’t know if you can see it, but there’s so many little thorns right here. So, now I tried to remove them before putting a new tube. We just fixed the bikes. I put a new patch on a recess tire and uh I just had to add some grease on my bottom bracket and uh now it seems all right. Oh, mama mia. Drivers here are crazy. Um so yeah, that’s the plan for now. Escaping out of the busy town of Kurfu. [Applause] Oh, no way. Looks incredible. So, I’m just going to give you a quick route update, guys. So we started down here in KFU and actually the route goes all the way around the island but we since we are in Shenhen country and Arisa’s days are running down we’re going to cross already now here straight up and cycle all this part of the island. So I think we will skip like 2 days probably and still have a beautiful circle loop to cycle off road or on empty roads at least. Heat. Heat. [Music] Holy [Music] Some rocket around. Yeah, we are almost at the Gilaf Father Beach. Um, cycled so far. I think 35ks. Really not much, but lots of hiker bike and harsh gravel, like really proper rocks actually. But lots of fun and it’s actually quite hot, 30°, but um there’s so much shadow, so it was actually fine. But we are both very excited for a swim. Now it goes all the way up again and uh then we are back on track and I don’t think we will cycle much further. Today it’s now almost 5:00 p.m. So maybe like 10 15 more K. Yeah. So yesterday we actually slept on this campsite right there. It’s uh one of two campsites on the island on the route actually. And it was pretty nice. We had a afternoon after noon swim, let’s say evening swim. Had a good shower, ate well, and now we’re going to continue on the route. And I’m super excited for today. I think it’s going to be so beautiful. It’s connected to many beaches over gravel paths. So yeah, really looking forward for this day. Mama mia. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. so far. It’s also very very easy on this route to just get any food you want. Like literally, you don’t have to carry much food or water. There’s so many supermarkets. Um, as you can see, maybe there there’s a shower, so you can just have a swim, have a fresh shower, and just continue to cycle. Like, it’s really such a comfortable bike packing route. And like as we did, you can easily adjust the route going from gravel, push yourself to the limit, and then decide, okay, let’s actually go back to the main road or like a local little road. It’s really like comfortable so far. We got 100. What you know about that? Got to everybody know the max. Yeah. already there. Just on the other side is Albania. So, we go all the way around now and then hop on a ferry there to Albania. [Music] We both can’t move. So, we definitely will not catch the ferry today to Albania. But um really excellent food. [Music] [Applause] I felt her eyes reaching deeply into mine and I thought I heard her. She loved me. Yeah, it’s the last night here on KFU. We’re actually right next to the beach with millions of mosquitoes and we put the tent right there um in front of a big bush. Um really not the best spot, but well, it’s the last night. It’s all right. And then tomorrow morning, we start cycling quite early. It’s the last push to uh back to Kofu and then from there we will go straight to um Albania. Everything is very very wet. So we just made it to the highest point of today’s uh day. Now it’s all the way down. It’s uh 9 9:00 a.m. The ferry leaves at I think 11:30. Now we’re going to enjoy a 15 km downhill down to Kofu. That’s