Heraklion Trip Overview
Enjoy a day filled with pretty scenery, history and time to relax. You have seen it in pictures now you have the ideal opportunity to be part of it. A combination of beautiful landscapes with history and tradition. Within a day you will experience a time travel from the long past to modern everyday life. If there is a must-see on Crete, it is surely this multifaceted Tour.
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Duration: 10 hours
Starts: Heraklion, Greece
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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What to Expect When Visiting Heraklion, Heraklion Prefecture, Greece
Enjoy a day filled with pretty scenery, history and time to relax. You have seen it in pictures now you have the ideal opportunity to be part of it. A combination of beautiful landscapes with history and tradition. Within a day you will experience a time travel from the long past to modern everyday life. If there is a must-see on Crete, it is surely this multifaceted Tour.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Elounda, Elounda, Lasithi Prefecture, Crete
Elounda has to offer to its visitors some of the most beautiful landscapes in Greece and is a renowned popular tourist resort with luxurious hotels for the most expensive tastes.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Spinalonga (Kalydon), Elounda Bay, Elounda, Crete 720 53 Greece
Spinalonga, the small islet near Elounda, is marked with a turbulent history of fierce battles and much human suffering. At the beginning of the 20th century on the islet, the lepers of whole Greece were quarantined until 1957.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Elounda, Elounda, Lasithi Prefecture, Crete
Plaka standing right opposite of Spinalonga is highly linked with it. The atmosphere will give you the feeling that time has stopped. Enjoy a swim in its pebbly beach.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Agios Nikolaos, Agios Nikolaos, Lasithi Prefecture, Crete
4. Ag. Nikolaos is the cosmopolitan capital of Lasithi having as trademark its multi photographed lagoon, which the locals name Voulismeni. It is set on the largest natural bay on Crete and is built amphitheatrically on a slope.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Kritsa, Kritsa, Lasithi Prefecture, Crete
Kritsa picturesque village is among the oldest on Crete, built on the feet of Mt. Kastellos semicircularly built, with a marvelous view to vast olive groves and the Mirabello bay. Here old customs and traditions are kept alive, still renowned as weaving art center.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Panagias Keras Church, Agios Nikolaos, Crete 721 00 Greece
6. Kera church The rich Byzantine iconography and different styles make the church of Panagia Kera in Kritsa the most important monument in the region. 13th-14th BC cent.
Duration: 30 minutes
