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Travel in Lesvos
Public Transport
in Lesvos is by bus or taxi.
Taxis
There is an ample supply of taxis, with ranks at the airport, in Mitilene town centre
(near the country bus station at the end of Odos Ermou behind the Municipal Theatre), Kalloni, Petra and Molivos. Most other villages have at least one local taxi.
For more information see www.freewebs.com/lesvostaxiservice.
Buses
Mitilene town services operate from Sappho Square in the middle of the waterfront
and the bus station near the municipal car park off
Odyseus Elitis (Οδύσσεα Ελύτη) by the cargo port
and run as far as the airport in the south, Gera to the west, and Thermi to the north.
The airport bus operates approximately hourly through the day,
with a mid-afternoon break.
Country services are operated by KTEL Lesvos
from the terminal in KTEL Square (Πλατεία ΚΤΕΛ) about five minutes walk from
the town bus station; walk north (with the car park and harbour on your right)
then left along the street next to an Atlantic (ΑΤΛΑΝΤΙΚ) supermarket.
At the traffic lights at the end of the street the terminal is directly opposite.
A current timetable for the main services is posted outside;
frequencies depend on time of year, day of week etc,
but core services to Petra and Molivos usually leave at 11.00 & 13.15
and take up to two hours.
Ask before boarding a bus - the one that says Molivos on the front isn't necessarily the one that's going there!
From mid-May to mid-October there is a shuttle service from Eftalou,
to the east of Molivos, via Molivos and Petra to Anaxos.
There is also an unpublicised network of local services connecting villages off the main road with the through services, usually at the central island hub of Kalloni,
but sometimes at otherwise isolated road junctions.
The only way to find out about these is seems to be to ask locally,
but as they are mainly designed, and timed, for local schoolchildren and shoppers
they are of limited use for exploring the island.
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