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,…
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…
Elafonisi beach Chania is the most famous beach in Crete, and probably one of the most talked-about beaches in the entire Mediterranean. That reputation is well earned. But before you drive two hours through the mountains and arrive at midday…
Seitan Limania beach Chania is one of the most dramatic places you will find anywhere in the Aegean. A narrow fjord-like cove cut into white limestone cliffs on the eastern tip of the Akrotiri Peninsula. The water is an almost…