The Akrotiri Peninsula Chania sits right outside your door if you are staying in the city, and most visitors miss most of it. They drive through it on the way to the airport and see nothing. Or they go once…
Aradena Gorge Chania is one of the most serious and least-visited hiking destinations in all of western Crete. It sits deep in Sfakia country, roughly 85 kilometres south of Chania city, carved into the limestone of the White Mountains above…
Avlaki Gorge Chania is one of the most rewarding short hikes you can do on the Akrotiri Peninsula, and almost no one knows it exists. That is not a marketing line. Most visitors to Chania spend their days on beaches…
Macherida is a tiny sandy cove on the west side of Akrotiri, just past Tersanas, about 25 minutes from Chania. A few metres of sand between two rocky headlands, deep blue and very clear water, and nothing else: no sunbeds,…
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…
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…