Kos sailing vacations
Kos is the island of Hippocrates father of medicine and the third largest in the Dodecanese after Rhodes and Karpathos,
lying close to the Asia Minor coast, between Nisyros and Kalymnos island.
In 460 BC Hippocrates was born in Kos. After his death the people of Kos built the famous Asklepeion, in honor of the god Asclepios,
which operated as a hospital applying the methods of therapy taught by Hippocrates.
Kos offers a healthy mild climate most of the year.
Along with the greek sunshine and the marvelous golden beaches made Kos an international tourist center and one of the most attractive and beautiful of the Greek Islands.
Kos is connected direct by air from many of the capitals of Europe, as well as from Athens and Rhodes.
There are ferries to Kos from most greek islands, the rest of Dodecanese, Piraeus, the Cyclades, Crete,
the greek islands of the northern and eastern Aegean and Kavala.
Large enough to be explored, Kos promises tourists unforgettable holidays.
From the prehistoric times it was an important channel of the sea ways that started from the Black Sea
and along the shoreline of Asia Minor and the islands of Aegean and reached North Africa.
Lovely beaches, pretty villages, interesting sights and a great nightlife can be found here.
This is considered one of the hottest party islands, but it has much, much more to offer than that.
A green, lush island, Kos is an island of many choices where you either can spend your whole holiday on a quiet beach in a laid-back village
or party all night in the many bars and clubs.
There is so much to see and that is one of the reasons people keep coming back to the island of Hippocrates.
The island has been quite rich ever since ancient times, with the exception of times of enslavement under the Turks and several pirate attacks.
The fertile soil have blessed the locals with grapes for wine, wheat, fruits and olives as well as obsidian and rich fishing waters.
Find out more about this Greek sailing vacation here: www.kosinfo.gr