Lake Kerkini, a journey into the environment

You have chosen Lake Kerkini for your excursion or for your vacation and your company asks, “great, we have arrived, what can we do here?”. Lake Kerkini and the wider area in general offer a large number of activities to get to know the wealth it has to offer you. Professionals are active in the field of alternative activities throughout the lakeside and mountainous area of the Municipality of Sintiki, ready to raise the adrenaline of the visitor to the red.
Boating: every season and other images, different emotions, this uniqueness of Kerkini comes exclusively from the way it operates. Five months of each year, (March to July) the lake hosts over 120 different breeding species. Its maximum area reaches approximately 75,000 acres and its depth is approximately 10 meters. The remaining seven months of each year (August to February) the lake hosts migratory birds and is a wintering area for northern bird species. Its area falls to 55,000 acres and its depth will hardly exceed 2 meters.
Canoeing: from areas such as Limanaki in Mandraki, mainly in the spring months, canoeing is the most gentle way to tour Lake Kerkini. Accompanied by experienced guides and after a lesson in behavior in the canoe and next to the birds, the groups are safely led to a point close to the bird nests.
Archery: in the villages of Kerkini, Ano Poroia and Chrysochorafa, the tourist centers offer learning and introduction to archery to individual visitors but mainly to school groups.
Hiking: on the international hiking trails E4 and E6, around the lake and for special groups on the ridge of Mount Kerkini, the visitor, whether a nature photographer or not, has the opportunity to explore with safety given by the good signage and the clean mountain roads of the mountainous massif of Mount Kerkini, which is approximately 70 kilometers long.
Horseback riding: from the villages of Kerkini, Lithotopos and Ano Poroia the visitor can come into contact with horse riding, around the lake or on the slopes of Mount Kerkini and Krousia.
4×4 Jeep: from the village of Kerkini and passing around the lake and on different routes every season of the year or on the slopes of Krousia or Mount Kerkini, the visitor experiences through a completely different activity the knowledge of the Kerkini wetland with the emotions and challenges of the terrain being continuous.
Birdwatching: the uniqueness of Lake Kerkini is that it allows the observer to have easy access to the lake around, as well as to the surrounding mountain ranges. What you need in Kerkini when you go birdwatching is simply patience and time.
Cycling: it may not seem like a very interesting activity, but it is one that can take you wherever you want without much cost and give you freedom of movement from morning to late afternoon. In addition to the bicycles of Kerkini Houses which are free for our friends, the area has two tourist centers where the visitor can rent a bicycle as he wishes.
** For all the above, ask us, so that you can organize your tourist activities better and above all more economically.