Tersanas is a small cove on the west side of Akrotiri, 20 minutes from Chania, that most tourists drive past on their way to Stavros. The name comes from the old word for boatyard, and a small pier still divides…
Marathi is where Chania families go when the north wind is blowing. Two small sandy coves on either side of a fishing pier, inside Souda Bay, facing south towards the White Mountains. Because of where it sits, the water stays…
Kedrodasos is just 1–2 km east of Elafonisi, yet most people who go to Elafonisi never see it. A white-sand beach with turquoise water and, behind it, a forest of twisted juniper trees growing right down onto the dunes. (The…
Balos Beach Chania is the image that sold half of northern Europe on a holiday in Crete: a wide, shallow lagoon somewhere between turquoise and white, a pale sandbar running out to a rocky islet, and cliffs dropping into the…
Falassarna Beach Chania is one of the great beaches of the Mediterranean, and not in the way that phrase gets used about every sandy strip in Greece. It is three kilometres of pale sand and blue-green water facing due west…
Elafonisi beach Chania is the most famous beach in Crete: a shallow, turquoise lagoon you can wade across to a small islet of dunes, cedars and quiet coves. It deserves the reputation. It also gets thousands of visitors a day…