Day Trip to Santorini
Day Trip to Santorini from Crete: A Guide to the Perfect Island Escape. Day Trip to Santorini from Crete When we consider the splendour of the Aegean Sea, a day […]
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Maleme German military cemetery
Maleme, 11 miles (ca. 18 km) west of Chania, the second-largest German military cemetery in Greece. Simple grave complex at the place where in May 1941 after the German airborne
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Milatos Cave
Milatos with its famous cave and the neighbouring picturesque fishing village of Sisi to the east of Malia, which already belong to the prefecture of Lasithi. From Sisi in the
Lasithi Plateau
Trip to Lasithi Plateau. Directions with map, information, pictures and video about the plateau, Diktaion (Psychros, Zeus) Cave, Kronio Cave, town ruins of Karfi, monastery Vidani. Trips on the plateau
Milatos in January 2025
Excursion to Milatos on Sunday, 19 January 2025. Yesterday, on a sunny and beautiful Sunday (19 January), we visited Milatos again and would like to share some beautiful photos with
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Gortys
Gortys, the destroyed Roman city on Crete. The provincial capital was never rebuilt after the destruction by the Saracens and the ruins are in the state they were in 1,200
Churches and monasteries around Lasithi plateau
A small selection of unique churches and monasteries around the Lasithi plateau in Crete, along with an interesting hiking trail. The Agios Pandeleimon church near Pigi (Kastelli) and the Agios
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Isthmus of Crete
On the isthmus of Crete at Istro and surroundings. Monastery Moni Faneromeni, Minoan city Gournia in front of Pachia Ammos and the imposing Ha Gorge on the way to Ierapetra.
Olous and Peninsula of Spinalonga
The sunken, ancient city of Olous between Elounda and the Spinalonga peninsula with beaches and hiking trails. One kilometer east of Elounda, near the windmills on the peninsula of Spinalonga
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Lasithi Hikes and Karfi
Lasithi hikes: up to the Minoan settlement of Karfi, exploring trail E4 in the western part of the plateau and Havga Gorge. Hikes on the Lasithi plateau On the Lasithi
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Kritsa and surroundings
The charmingly situated mountain village of Kritsa near Agios Nikolaos with the Panayia Kera, the most famous church in Crete, the Doric ruined city of Lato and hike through the
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Arhanes
Sightseeing of the wine region south of Heraklion: the Aqueduct, burial ground at Fourni, Arhanes and Minoan megaron of Vathypetro. Arhanes, south of Heraklion Sightseeing south of Heraklion: Aqueduct of
Neapoli, Sellinari and surroundings
Neapoli, one of the most beautiful towns in Crete with the annual big street festival ‘Koumissis tis Theotokou’ (Dormition of the Virgin Mary on 15 August), and with the surrounding
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Fortress of Spinalonga
Fortress of Spinalonga in the Gulf of Korfos. History of the fortress and the island of the ‘Living Dead’, the lepers’ colony in the last century. History of Fortress of
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