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 beach Chania sits on the Akrotiri peninsula, just 14 kilometres northeast of the city centre. Most people drive past the turnoff without even knowing it exists. That is entirely the point. This is a small, unorganised cove with no…
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…
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…