Location. Kassandra is the westernmost and most populated sleeve Halkidiki, named after the ancient king Cassander. To get there go through Thessaloniki or rather ring in Thessaloniki, unless you want to wait a few hours of traffic lights in the city. The road from Thessaloniki to Halkikidi is unidirectional and right, the first settlement of the sleeve is less than 70 km. Individual resorts (or rather villages) are located a few kilometers from each other, so please feel free to walk around the vicinity without being bored. If you have a car you can move, you can always rent a bike, motorcycle or ATV, or boarding the coaches.
Quite often you can hear the name Pallini. This is neither a village nor a city but the old name of Kassandra, which today is the name of one of its municipalities. There is a hotel of the same name near Kalithea.
Nature. Every place has its own atmosphere and all of them are worth seeing. The water everywhere is crystal clear and very, very blue when looking down on the sea. The water is salty and float more easily. In places there are stones on the bottom, below which lie sea urchins, so be careful as you step on them or get aqua shoes (€ 5). The waves are very rare on the east coast and the sea is almost always smooth as a mirror. Since water is clear and calm, you can observe life in it with or without water glasses - fish, sea snail, small octopus, starfish and sea urchins. Fish are sometimes playful and can shove if you stay too long in one place without moving. Instead mussels along a small colored stones. Algae will.
The vegetation of the sleeve is provided by olive trees, palms and oleanders. Some resorts are growing pine trees and hence the feeling of sea and mountains in one place.
Beaches. In July and August it pretty village. The beaches of the sleeve are not the same everywhere - some are just fine sand and other sand mixed with pebbles. At the bottom of the sea around the coast often have stones. Part of sunbeds paid (6 euros for two sunbeds and umbrella). Other institutions and are not paid, but require consumption (frappe - 3-5 euros soda - 3-4 euros and mineral water - € 1). There is enough space between the chairs, not to push the neighbors, and a small table between the two lounges under an umbrella. Of course, you can always go outside the resort one of the desert beaches.
Hotels and restaurants. There are all kinds and many. The most frequent visitors are Serbs, Russians, Bulgarians and English speakers, so you'll have no problems with language. No high building, hotels, even the higher categories have a maximum of four floors, make a few exceptions and they are few and far between for the entire sleeve. Afternoon siesta there, so do not be surprised if some stores or bakeries were closed for several hours. However, all night working late.
Entertainment. Some of the resorts organize day tours by boat to the other two branches, which includes lunch. Deserve to sign for them, but it's nice to know some things in advance because most likely you will not tell them there. Tickets purchased in advance may the evening of the next day. Go for at least half an hour earlier before departure instructions - no tickets with reserved seats do not have enough boats covered benches for all passengers (at least in high season) and you may sit in place of the sun or the railing of the ship with legs dangling down . Required grab a hat and dress with long sleeves - while the ship is moving polahva wind and you will not feel how you burn. If you think you sick during the trip, ask your anti-sickness pill by the master or crew (usually any).
Water sports are not available in all the resorts, so if you keep any, research questions in advance. In every village has at least one children's playground with swings.
In addition to tours of Mount Athos and Sithonia, other excursions offered in the larger resorts are visiting the Petralona cave near Thessaloniki and one day in Waterland - a great waterpark, again near Thessaloniki.
