The village of Tigkaki or Tigaki, Kos

The station has traditionally been the resort of the inhabitants of the mountain villages ( Asfendiou , Zia , Pyli ...), but the station has grown considerably in recent decades, with the construction of hotels and apartments along its white sand coast, but also inland farms.

From Kos, you can go to Tigkaki the main road that crosses the island along its length, leaving on the right Zipari. However it is more pleasant to borrow from Kos, a small road from the southwest exit of Kos this small road, quiet and almost flat, winding through farmland in the middle of fields and watermelons tomatoes.

The beach is long and narrow and quite busy, but we’re going to the southwest, the more it expands and moves away from the traffic of the road.

Just before the beach Tigkaki, there is the beach Boat Beach (due to the presence of a shipwreck), which is less crowded.

Spring, in March and April, the marsh Alykes is a popular resting place for migratory birds, especially flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus) that can be seen in flight or feeding in shallow water Marsh.

The marsh is separated from the shore by a barrier of dunes from one to two meters high at the effluent of the marsh is a nesting loggerhead sea turtles, loggerhead turtles or turtle (Caretta caretta).