This south Chania guide covers the region that most tourists never find. They land in Chania, drive west to Elafonisi, maybe east to Balos, and go home thinking they have seen Crete. They have not. South of the White Mountains…
Now I have comprehensive information to write the article. Let me compose it. The Venizelos Tombs Chania is one of the most historically significant and quietly moving sites in all of western Crete. It sits on the Profitis Ilias hill…
Kissamos far west Chania is one of the most rewarding corners of the entire island, and most visitors only scratch the surface. They do Balos on a boat day trip, tick it off the list, and drive back east. What…
Apokoronas is the green region east of Chania, between Souda Bay and Georgioupolis, from the sea up to the foot of the White Mountains. Most people pass through on the national road to Rethymno without stopping. They miss traditional villages…
Gavalochori is a protected traditional village in the green hills of Apokoronas, about 30 minutes from Chania: stone houses several centuries old, a dozen churches, a few kafeneia and a small, excellent folklore museum. It is also the village of…
Douliana is a tiny, protected traditional village in Apokoronas, between Vamos and Kalyves, that most people drive past. Stone lanes, two 19th-century churches, a kafeneio, and all around, old olive groves with dry-stone walls and views to Souda Bay and…