Antiparos's easygoing locals, secluded beaches, proximity to (yet distance from) Paros and lack of mass tourism or any large hotel have kept things low-key.

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Shakti Vahini is one NGO trying to help the paros by rescuing them and sending them to a safe home run by the state government.

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Islands like Crete, Mykonos and Paros have been catering to holiday homeowners and mass tourism since the '70s, with overdevelopment and, now, troubled balance sheets.

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In fact, no one paid much attention to Antiparos at all: Across a small bay and a five-minute ferry ride from the larger, more developed Paros, it was never considered particularly desirable to anyone but native fishers and hippie backpackers.

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