Caracterized by Unesco as the island of Peace and Friendship,Halki(Chalki, Khalki)is a jewel of an island, small and rocky, situated some 6 km west of the island of Rhodes in the Dodecanese Archipelago. With an area of 28 km2 and a population of a few
hundred people in the summer, it is one of the smallest inhabited islands not only in the Aegean but in all of Greece.
The landscape is mountainous with the most important peaks being those of Prophet Elias (518m), Kapouli (512) and Kapnikari (500m). With the exceptions of the main port of Imporio and the beach of Pontamos, the other beaches found of the island are small and
rocky.
