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…
Georgioupolis Chania sits about 38 kilometres east of the city, roughly halfway between Chania and Rethymno, and it is one of the most genuinely relaxed places on the entire island. Not dramatic like Balos. Not remote like Sfakia. Just a…
The Chania Venetian Harbor and Lighthouse is the most recognizable image in all of western Crete. One photograph of that pale tower at the end of the breakwater, the old town stacked behind it and the White Mountains rising in…
Marathi Beach Chania is one of those places that locals keep quietly returning to, while the tourist crowds chase Elafonisi and Balos. It sits on the southeastern side of the Akrotiri Peninsula, inside Souda Bay, about 17 kilometres from Chania…
The Maritime Museum of Crete, Chania is one of the few places in the old town where you actually learn something you did not already know. It sits inside the Firkas Fortress at the western end of the Venetian harbour,…
Chrissoskalitissa Monastery Chania sits on the far southwestern edge of Crete, perched on a rock face 35 metres above the Libyan Sea. Most visitors only notice it because it sits on the road to Elafonisi beach. That is a shame,…