Gouverneto Monastery and Katholiko are two of the most historically significant sites on the Akrotiri Peninsula, just 20 kilometres from Chania. Most visitors to the area drive straight to Stavros beach or Kalathas and miss this entirely. That is their…
Samaria Gorge is the biggest day out in western Crete, and probably the one your friends will ask about when you get home. In the prefecture of Chania, the Samaria Gorge is the longest gorge in Europe at 16 kilometres,…
The Archaeological Museum Chania is one of the most important and most undervisited things to do in the city. Most tourists spend their time in the Old Town, walk the harbour, eat well, then leave. The museum does not get…
A Sfakia day trip is one of the most rewarding things you can do from Chania, and it is also one of the most underestimated. Most tourists hear about Balos or Elafonisi and go there. Sfakia is different. It sits…
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…