Samaria Gorge: The Complete Local Guide
Samaria Gorge is the biggest day out in western Crete, and the one your friends will ask about when you get home. It is one of the longest gorges in Europe: 16 kilometres from the White Mountains down to the…
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Sfakia Day Trip: The Complete Local Guide from Chania
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: The Complete Local Guide
Balos Beach Chania is the image that sold half of northern Europe on a holiday in Crete: a wide, shallow lagoon somewhere between turquoise and white, a pale sandbar running out to a rocky islet, and cliffs dropping into the…
Falassarna Beach Chania: The Complete Local Guide
Falassarna Beach Chania is one of the great beaches of the Mediterranean, and not in the way that phrase gets used about every sandy strip in Greece. It is three kilometres of pale sand and blue-green water facing due west…
Elafonisi Beach Chania: The Complete Local Guide
Elafonisi beach Chania is the most famous beach in Crete: a shallow, turquoise lagoon you can wade across to a small islet of dunes, cedars and quiet coves. It deserves the reputation. It also gets thousands of visitors a day…
Seitan Limania Beach Chania: The Complete Local Guide
Seitan Limania beach Chania is one of the most dramatic places in Crete: a narrow, fjord-like cove cut into white limestone cliffs on the Akrotiri Peninsula, with water an almost electric shade of turquoise. The name means “Satan’s Harbour”, and…