Amazing & Breathtaking Santorini
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...
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Feb 1, 20191 min read
The Greatest Adventure Jeep Safari
The Jeep Safari not only refreshes and revitalizes but one feels close to nature while driving through the quiet and beautiful...
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Jan 17, 20191 min read
Prehistoric City of Akrotiri
A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis. Tucked away at the...
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Jan 12, 20192 min read
Psiloritis Unesco Global Geopark
Psiloritis is connected with the birth and activity of immortal gods. At the glacis of mountain Idis, Rea hunted by Saturn, hid Zeus and...
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Jan 11, 20193 min read
Mountain Hiking Gonies Maleviziou
The geo-itinerary of Gonies Description The area of Gonies, Maleviziou, has a unique and distinctive geological character. Over a...
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Jan 11, 20193 min read
The Foothills of Psiloritis
Taking the old roads east from Rethymnon, through the foothills of Psiloritis range, there are a variety of routes to choose from or...
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Jan 10, 20198 min read
Palace of Knossos Europe's oldest city !
Arena scene fresco, Knossos, Crete, 1600 BCE. Minoans crowded into the seats to watch bull leaping As soon as you enter the palace...
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Jan 7, 20192 min read
Why are Cretans So Healthy?
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...
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Jan 7, 20196 min read
Land and Peasants in Medieval Crete. 13th-14th centuries
Athens (Institute for Byzantine Research/NHRF) 1997 National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute for Historical Research, Faculty...
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Jan 7, 20191 min read
Southwest from Heraklion
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...
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Jan 5, 20192 min read
KNOSSOS...a dancing place
KNOSSOS...a dancing place All full of turning, that was like the admirable maze For fair hair’d Ariadne made, by cunning Daedalus -...
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Jan 4, 20194 min read
Hiking around the area in Omalos
Omalos, the heart of the plateau, is largely unaffected by the daily dawn procession in summer. Once the hordes have gore it settles back...
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Jan 4, 20195 min read
SAMARIA GORGE HIKING
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...
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Jan 4, 20191 min read
MOUNTAIN HIKING
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...
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Jan 2, 20191 min read
Sundry Octopus
Did you know? The tradition is centuries old, when people discovered that it was better to dry octopus before grilling it, but had...
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Dec 30, 20183 min read
Where to go !
Along the south coast, and west, towards Rethymnon, where mountains drop straight down to the sea, only handful of places are developed,...
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Dec 22, 201710 min read
Heraklion City
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...
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Nov 24, 20173 min read
Wine not? Top vineyards to visit
The countryside south of Knossos is dominated by the bulk of Mount Yiouhtas (811m) which rises alone from a landscape otherwise...
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