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Crete in action: where adrenaline never takes vacation!
Just choose what you want to do… do you want to climb steep rocks like…
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Vathy
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Psari Forada (aka Sidonia)
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Ai Giannis (Gavdos island)
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Souda
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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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Kato Simi - Omalos Viannou
Discover one of the most beautiful mountainous landscape of Crete, perhaps the most important pine…
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Triopetra
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Maroulas
Maroulas is not adequately advertised but it is a real time machine that takes you…
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The ascent to Mount Yuchtas
Sometimes you don’t need to go very far to find wild Cretan nature. The anthropomorphic…
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Agios Pavlos
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Sfentoni Cave
Crete is home of half of the country’s caves, about 5.200, but only three are…

Crete, a Continent in an Island
Published in "Crete 360°"
A new book by the Natural History Museum of Crete, concentrates centuries of geological upheaval and all the wealth of the island's natural environment

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,…

How and why Houdetsi Festival becomes the greatest music event of Crete
Published in "Presentations"
The 6th Houdetsi Festival confirmed once and for all what we sensed all the previous years of its existence: without doubt, it is the most…

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

Photographic diaries: Lassithi Plateau
Published in "Crete 360°"
Christos Tsoumplekas takes us to a transcendental photographic journey at Lassithi Plateau, with fairy tale images that drift us away.

Agios Thomas and the City of Stone
Published in "Villages"
There is a village, just half an hour away from the city of Heraklion, that hides a hole that leads to Hades, a sanctuary of…