Paraga beach
Twin sandy coves split by a headland, split too between a decades-old campground and rows of private sunbeds.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Paraga beach in Mykonos opens with a simple question: when did a free stretch of sand start charging you for a chair? It traces the beach back to the 1970s, when it was one of the island's first hippie hangouts, tents pitched in the dunes and nobody thinking twice about clothes coming off, and follows how that reputation gave the beach a second name that still shows up on maps today. The old campground still pitches tents behind the trees on one side, and bare towels still line the rocks at the far end, where the nude tradition holds.
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