Chora is built around the Monastery of Agios Ioannis (Saint John) Theologos, a mass of beautiful snow-white houses bathed in aegean sunlight. It’s as if all the churches, the pretty manor-houses, the winding streets and the cobbled courtyards brimming with flowers, are all part of a conspiracy to take you back in time. Walk up the old cobbled street of Skala - or better yet hire a donkey to do the work for you - with the old windmills looming in the distance and let the magic of the landscape sweep over you, breathing new life into forgotten legends. Chora is connected to the port with an asphalt road.