Elia Nudist Beach
Longest sandy stretch on the island, reached by wooden water-taxi and known for its clothing-optional far end.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Elia Nudist Beach in Mykonos is told through the boatmen of the island's oldest sea-taxi outfit, a company that has been running wooden caiques along this coast since 1968. It traces how fishing here dried up and pushed the men who owned those hulls to start ferrying visitors instead, beach by beach, down the same coastline you can see from the sand, with Elia sitting at the far, quiet end of the run. Eleven boats still work that route today, nine of them the same style of wooden caique those first fishermen converted.
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