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Vamos: history, nobility, hospitality
The tourist industry in Crete has a dark history, as it is often responsible for…
Crete of Festivals: Summer 2013
Every year the cultural map of Crete dramatically changes, a sign that the island is…
Agiofaraggo: The gorge of the saints!
Crete has many gorges –more than 250 as a matter of fact. Some of these…
Sandhills (Ammolofoi or Keramiani Gialia)
Agios Thomas and the City of Stone
There is a village, just half an hour away from the city of Heraklion, that…
Kapetaniana - Ai Giannis
Ascetic landscapes, naked mountains, hiking trails, ancient customs, hidden gulfs...the mountain chain of Asterousia and…
Kolokitha
Cretan Μyths and Realities
You’ve seen them in card postals, you’ve read about them in countless travel articles, you’ve…
Photographic diaries: Lassithi Plateau
Christos Tsoumplekas takes us to a transcendental photographic journey at Lassithi Plateau, with fairy tale…
Ziros Plateau - Into the time machine
Lassithi is one of the less travelled and yet most beautiful regions of Crete (perhaps…
Crete or Tuscany?
Discover Agios Fanourios – and Tuscanian landscapes - in Kitharida
Tertsa

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Adrenaline rush, in the gorge of Agia Eirini!|||||

Crossing the gorge of Agia Eirini … by bike!

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The guard of the gorge gave us a strange look: “are you going to leave those here and come back to get them?” “No”, we…

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Searching for cyclamens at Rouva’s forest - 2nd Zaros Trail Race

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I remember it as if it was yesterday. It was April of 1999, and first-grade students of Biology Department of University of Crete had to…

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Hiking to "Prinos", the one and only mountain refuge of Heraklion

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Video: the unseen world of Cretan gorges brought to light

Video: the unseen world of Cretan gorges brought to light

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Unseen images from the gorges of Asterousia Mountains are brought to light by the Institute of Speleological Studies of Greece

The highest working employee of Crete|Sunset and fog over Samaria gorge|Kallergi refuge... by night!||Feeding the vultures of Samaria|A snowy selfie of the refuge-man|Watching mountaineering movies at night

Interview: the “highest working” employee in Crete, at Kallergi refuge!

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Christos Paterakis is the 'key keeper' of Kallergi refuge in the winter season. This honor was bestowed upon him by the Greek Mountaineering Club of…

Cycling in Hersonissos

Cycling in Hersonissos

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Nine bike routes to cycle your way around Hersonissos

The hidden forest of Crete||||Big bad wolf, are you there?||Where are we going?|The picturesque chapel of Agios Ioannis|The ancient plane trees of Rouvas|No, what are you looking at?|In the gorge...|Oh no, somebody is following us...|Stop for a while and enjoy the view!|What an ideal place for a theater...

In the forest of Rouvas - without the Big Bad Wolf!

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(and the gorge of Agios Nikolaos)

Climbing, with the Grim Reaper chasing you!|

Climbing on Gigilos - together with Grim Reaper

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A dangerous affirmation of existence, a few hundred of meters over the gorge of Samaria.