Explore Psiloritis Mountain, the highest mountain in Crete and the second highest in Greece after Olympus. Rising 2,456 meters, and was sacred to the ancients – the king of the gods, Zeus was supposedly born here. It usually takes three or four hours to reach […]

The Arkadi Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery, situated on a fertile plateau 23 km to the southeast of Rethymnon. The exact date of the foundation of the monastery is not known, but it is believed that it was actually founded by Byzantine Emperor Arkadios […]

The village of hippies, Matala, is approx. 70 klm in the south of Heraklion and is one of the most famous coastal settlements of the southern Crete.Matala became famous in the 1960s, when some wandering hippies discovered the carved caves and moved in.The beach of […]