You'll love this tour if you like:
- Walking
- The great outdoors
- Nature
- Scenery
- Tradition and culture
The success of our Crete walking tours has led us to explore and research interesting trails elsewhere amidst the Greek archipelago! With the help of experienced local guides we have found some lovely trails and put together some spectacular walks. Like our Walking in Western Crete tour, these tours will similarly display the natural and authentic landscape of each region whilst, with the help of our knowledgeable guides, will also provide an insight into the traditional ways and culture of each destination.
Already well-established, and extremely popular, are our walks in Western Crete so we thought it was time to introduce our guests to the east of the island. Eastern Crete is vastly different from the west, so much so that one often feels that one has literally changed islands! The landscape is less mountainous but more hilly, with a multitude of small gorges and lost valleys where you find old stone villages blending harmoniously with a wild and often mysterious landscape. The earth here is sometimes deep purple or red, prefect for growing olives and grapes, which you find in abundance throughout this part of Crete. We explore arid and yet colourful gorges, including 'Deads' gorge', where the ancient Minoans used the natural caves to bury their dead. The colours found in this region are inspirational with the sharp blue of the sea and the sky marrying on the horizon and the wild natural beauty glistening amidst the silvery-green olive trees and the red and grey rocks.
During our tour we will explore a variety of these landscapes, encountering working shephard communities, abondoned Minoan villages, frescoed Byzantine chapels and medieval monasteries.
Our base for this tour is the seaside town of Sitia, an ideal location both for reaching the start of our walks each day as well as a perfect situation for your free time as everything is close by.
Our walks in Eastern Crete can be described as easy to medium with walks averaging between 6 to 12kms a day.
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