Located in a beautiful valley near Sougia, Agia Irini Gorge is 8km long and ideal for hiking.

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Gorge d’Agia Irini 

The Samaria gorge was listed as a national park in 1962 and contains the most beautiful scenery.

Samariá Gorge

Lovely fishing village on the coastal shore of Lassithi.

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Balos lagoon stretches into the Gramvousa peninsula, on Cape Tigani.

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The birthplace of the Minoan civilization, Crete is the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean. 

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Considered to be the island of the gods for the ancient Greeks, Crete is the most southerly land in Europe. I found it incredibly beautiful and I loved the kindness of the inhabitants. There are few forests and rivers in Crete but I was particularly impressed by the olive groves, a green mantle covering the majority of the island and which counterbalances the arid almost African climate. Crete is a wonderful place for doing nothing and the beaches are heavenly, a fabulous finishing point after all your visits during <a href="/greece/">your trip to Greece</a>. As for landscape, my favourite was the Samaria gorge, a stone maze of more than 16km with a depth of 300 metres and a width varying from 2 to 250 metres.

The birthplace of the Minoan civilization, Crete is the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean.

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