Tersanas Beach Chania is one of those places that most tourists drive straight past on their way to Stavros. That is their mistake. Tersanas is a small coastal village located 13km northeast of Chania, hidden in a small cove on…
Marathi Beach Chania is one of those places that locals keep quietly returning to, while the tourist crowds chase Elafonisi and Balos. It sits on the southeastern side of the Akrotiri Peninsula, inside Souda Bay, about 17 kilometres from Chania…
Kedrodasos Beach Chania is one of the most genuinely untouched beaches left in western Crete. It sits just one kilometre east of the famous Elafonisi lagoon, yet most of the people who go to Elafonisi never make it here. That…
Balos Beach Chania is the image that sold half of northern Europe on booking a holiday in Crete. You have seen the photograph a hundred times before you ever arrive: a wide, shallow lagoon, water somewhere between turquoise and white,…
Falassarna Beach Chania is one of the genuinely great beaches of the Mediterranean. Not in the way that phrase gets used about every sandy strip on every Greek island, but in the way that people who have been to hundreds…
Elafonisi beach Chania is the most famous beach in Crete, and probably one of the most talked-about beaches in the entire Mediterranean. That reputation is well earned. But before you drive two hours through the mountains and arrive at midday…