Crete tourist guide

From 20 September to 31 October, at the home of Eleftherios Venizelos, the most famous Greek Prime Minister, located near Chania, maintenance and renovation works will be carried out, which in the future will allow the enrichment of resources with exhibits using the benefits of modern technology. In our opinion, this museum requires a thorough modernization, which would make the current rather poor exhibition more attractive. For now, however, it is worth noting that on the days when the works will be carried out, this facility will be inaccessible to visitors.

Crete's climbing and mountaineering clubs are very thriving organizations. Each year, as part of their activities, they organize various types of trips and trips. Thanks to them, local tourists can visit many interesting places and walking routes located on Crete. As part of the activities undertaken by these clubs, an annual All-Climber Meeting of Climbers is also organized annually. This year the event was organized on 7-8 August in the very picturesque Rouvas forest. This year's meeting was already the 39th edition of this event, which only shows how popular it is among local mountain tourists and how strongly it has grown into the local tradition. If you would like to see what this meeting looked like, we encourage you to watch the short report prepared by Giannis Psaroudakais.

In the last two days, Crete was in 4th grade on a 5-point scale of fire hazard. Such a high risk of fire covering the entire island did not occur this year. Tomorrow, the fourth degree is still forecast in the western part of Crete in the nomos of Chania and Rethymno. In the area of Heraklion and Lassithi on Sunday, "only" level 3 threat will apply. It should be remembered that according to the regulations introduced by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection , on days of high fire risk tourist routes are excluded from some popular walking routes.

The situation was aggravated by a very strong wind blowing in gusts up to 93 km / h. Relatively small fires that appeared on the island recently, fueled by strong gusts of wind turned out to be difficult to extinguish. Stormy weather was also the reason for the ban on shipping. All ships were banned from leaving yesterday. According to today's forecasts, windy weather is expected to persist also tomorrow, although the wind is expected to weaken so that ferries will leave Piraeus from the ports of Souda and Heraklion tonight.

Archelon is an organization that is thriving to protect Caretta Caretta turtles. We recently informed you about the nest discovery campaign that was carried out in the area of the north coast of Crete. Similar activities will also be undertaken this weekend. On Saturday, more nests will be discovered at Geraniotis Beach in Platanias. On Sunday, while watching tiny turtles will be possible on the beach in Maleme near the beach bar Menta.

As expected, the number of travelers using the airport in Chania decreased during this year's summit of holiday arrivals. Declines were recorded for almost all countries. The highest dynamics of the change in the number of travelers was recorded in the case of tourists from Italy, whose number is smaller by about 50% this year compared to the same period last year.

Virale is one of the phenomena of the modern Internet. These extremely popular videos are extremely popular among users. The very picturesque Cretan village of Kritsa also got its own viral. In this message there would be nothing unusual if not for the theme of this clip. In less than a two-minute film you can see two local shepherds, Yannis and Manolis Davrados milk their nice sheep. Some of them are clearly asking for the attention of their owners.

So far this clip has been played over 3 million times. What's more, this number increases every day by up to 25,000 consecutive views. So far, the recipients of the film are people from over 70 countries, among which the most popular are India, Pakistan, Turkey, Russia and Brazil. Well, we have to admit that we have also added our brick to these hits.

In Agia Roumeli begins the easy and very beautiful part of the European route E4 leading to the town of Chora Sfakion. On the way you will pass a small pine forest and a small church Agios Pavlos built on the beach many centuries ago. The trail continues along the rocky coast to the exit of the Aradena Gorge on Marmara Beach. The local tavern located here is a good place to relax and have dinner. We invite you to watch the movie of Giannis Psaroudakis.