Crete · WALKING TOURS
Good walking tours fill up weeks ahead and the great ones go first. Below: the 4 to book early, what each includes and how they differ.
Explore Knossos Palace with priority entry, a licensed English guide, Minoan myths, and optional Heraklion pickup and museum visit.
“Akrivi was amazing! Such a great storyteller! It was very interesting and we learned a lot :)”
Taste Heraklion beyond the tourist trail with coffee, bougatsa, Cretan cheese, olive oil, meze, wine, and local stories on a four-hour walk.
“Aside from having trouble finding meeting point (huge construction project happening). Tour was excellent, learned so much guide was amazing! Can’t recommend enough.”
Explore Chania with a local guide, hilltop coffee, four indigenous Cretan wines, and a generous lunch of traditional dishes.
“Nasos provided us with a great experience getting to sample Cretan wine and food while touring the beautiful old town of Chania. I would highly recommend this tour.”
Samaria Gorge from Heraklion: a demanding 10-mile hike, dramatic cliffs, boat ride, village lunch, and practical booking advice.
“This made for a very long day, but was so, so worth it! The gorge itself was absolutely beautiful, and the early start was great, as it felt cool when the trail began, with lots of shade for the first half, but became quite hot by the end. The beautiful flowers, wild thyme, rugged rock, clear water, and little wooden bridges were breathtaking at every turn. The terrain definitely tests your ankles, and once you are out of the gorge itself, there is still a 2 km walk to the beach. However, we were very glad to have done it. Our 15, 14, and 10 year old kids said they’d…”
Pick a coast, a gorge or a kitchen.
