The biggest balcony of the Aegean Sea, with its white washed chapels and houses over the black lava rocks will take your breath away. But...

The Jeep Safari not only refreshes and revitalizes but one feels close to nature while driving through the quiet and beautiful...

Arhanes and around

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis. Tucked away at the...

Psiloritis is connected with the birth and activity of immortal gods. At the glacis of mountain Idis, Rea hunted by Saturn, hid Zeus and...

The geo-itinerary of Gonies Description The area of Gonies, Maleviziou, has a unique and distinctive geological character. Over a...

Taking the old roads east from Rethymnon, through the foothills of Psiloritis range, there are a variety of routes to choose from or...

Arena scene fresco, Knossos, Crete, 1600 BCE. Minoans crowded into the seats to watch bull leaping As soon as you enter the palace...

The best way to determine why the people of Crete enjoyed good health is not by considering the benefits of one type of fat over another...

Athens (Institute for Byzantine Research/NHRF) 1997 National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute for Historical Research, Faculty...

Crossing the island on the southwest route is not, on the whole, the most exciting of drives: on the western outskirts of the city you...

KNOSSOS...a dancing place All full of turning, that was like the admirable maze For fair hair’d Ariadne made, by cunning Daedalus -...

Omalos, the heart of the plateau, is largely unaffected by the daily dawn procession in summer. Once the hordes have gore it settles back...

The one trip that every visitor to Crete-even those eminently unsuited to it- feels compelled to make is the hike down the Samaria gorge...

There ARE FEW PLACES IN THE WORLD WHERE HIGH MOUNTAINS SO CLOSE TO THE Sea combine with a perfect climate. This is a paradise for...

Did you know? The tradition is centuries old, when people discovered that it was better to dry octopus before grilling it, but had...

Along the south coast, and west, towards Rethymnon, where mountains drop straight down to the sea, only handful of places are developed,...

The province of Iraklion with the string of big resorts that lies to the east of the island, the great Minoan sites, Knossos, Malia and...

The countryside south of Knossos is dominated by the bulk of Mount Yiouhtas (811m) which rises alone from a landscape otherwise...