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The Art Gallery of Viannos: A modern Gallery in the most unexpected place
Sometimes the vision of one man alone is all it takes for realizing ‘utopias’...and that’s…
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Ziros Plateau - Into the time machine
Lassithi is one of the less travelled and yet most beautiful regions of Crete (perhaps…
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Nikos Kazantzakis Museum
One of the few literature museums in the country is exclusively dedicated to the life…
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Preveli
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Chiona
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Crete of Festivals: Summer 2014
Every year the cultural map of Crete dramatically changes, a sign that the island is…
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The Natural Pharmacy of Crete
You walk in the mountains of Crete and you think the place is full of…
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Ilingas
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Potamos, Malia
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Crossing the gorge of Agia Eirini … by bike!
The guard of the gorge gave us a strange look: “are you going to leave…
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Makrigialos - Pefki - Kapsa Monastery
Eastern Crete has a different color, scent and light, even different people. Sometimes it feels…
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Maroulas
Maroulas is not adequately advertised but it is a real time machine that takes you…

Hiking on the Holy Mountain of Stroumpoulas
Published in "Island Routes"
The pyramidal mountain of Stroumpoulas -as it seems, when you look at it from Heraklion- offers one of the most beautiful nearby escapes for naturalistic,…

Springtime at the gorge of the mills
Published in "Island Routes"
Or, how to discover a small paradise, hidden just a few kilometers outside the town of Rethymnon

Discover the plateau of Limnakaro
Published in "Island Routes"
South of the famous Lassithi Plateau there is another lesser known plateau…small and tranquil but overwhelmingly beautiful: Limnakaro.

Kato Simi - Omalos Viannou
Published in "Island Routes"
Discover one of the most beautiful mountainous landscape of Crete, perhaps the most important pine tree forest of the island and a village full of…

Elafonisi – Kedrodasos (E4 trail)
Published in "Island Routes"
Crossing the European E4 trail may seem an extreme task, doable only by hardcore trekkers. However, the route we propose here from Elafonisi to Kedrodasos…

The ascent to Mount Yuchtas
Published in "Island Routes"
Sometimes you don’t need to go very far to find wild Cretan nature. The anthropomorphic mountain of Yuchtas is just a few kilometers away from…

Anopoli - Aradaina: nature, adrenaline and... sfakian pies!
Published in "Island Routes"
Starting from the touristic portside of Chora Sfakion you cannot imagine that in just a few kilometres away you will arrive at a landscape resembling…

The walk to the summit of Psiloritis
Published in "Island Routes"
Put all your worries in your backpack and start climbing to the top. When you arrive, take a deep breath, and with all the strenght…