Crete 2016 Photo Gallery by Brian Dickson at pbase.com

Crete 2016

Photos from our ten day trip out to the Greek island of Crete in April 2016 with a return via Athens. We did a few day hikes, a 4 day backpack in the Lefki Ori mountains in the south west corner of Crete as well as seeing some of the lovely sights such as the cities of Chania and Heraklion. Crete was home to the Minoan civilisation (which pre dates classical Greek) from around 2000BC to 1500BC.

Minoan fresco Heraklion	Minoan dolphin fresco Heraklion	Heraklion	Knossos, capital of Minoan Crete	Knossos, capital of Minoan Crete	Heraklion at sunset
Heraklion harbour	Heraklion- dish with sheep herding	Heraklion linear b scripts	Heraklion - walking the venetian city walls	Heraklion	2016 Crete Camp above tavri at sheepfank with water cistern
Day 2 of backpack	Strange dangling snails		Rest at natural spring used by goat herders	Brian tries on the goat horns	Hiking below the Lefki Ori mountains, surprisingly free of snow in April
Goats everywhere!	Anapolis	Anapolis looking down to the south coast	Anapolis to Loutro on the south coast	Mountain goat	Anapolis- we overnighted in this lovely taverna
Heading out in the morning from Anopolis past some lambs	Descent into the Aradena gorge on an old kaldermia 'mule trail'	Aradena gorge	Aradena gorge- walking below the road bridge	Aradena gorge	Aradena gorge- descending down a section of 'via ferrata'
Aradena gorge- 'via ferrata' ladders	Aradena gorge	Aradena gorge	Aradena gorge	Aradena gorge	Goat kid takes an interest in us
Aradena gorge	Aradena gorge	Aradena gorge	Aradena gorge	Out onto the south coast	Houses at Pheonix
Chapel near Loutro	Hitch hiker beetle	Fantastic water near Loutro	Chapel near Loutro	Hiking into Loutro	Sweetwater bay
Sweetwater bay	Sweetwater bay	Sweetwater bay	Chapel on the coastal trail	looking west along the south coast to Loutro	Sweetwater bay camp
2016 Crete Sweetwater bay, camp just above the water level	Mist first thing in the morning	Exciting coastal trail heading towards Sfakia		Imbros gorge	Imbros gorge
Imbros gorge	Hiking towards Amidoura	Resting in Skafia	Beautiful swimming at Sfakia	Askifou gorge - spring flower display	Askifou gorge
Askifou gorge	Askifou gorge	Starting up Gigilos mountain in the Lefki Ori range	Gigilos arch	Gigilos	Gigilos
Gigilos	Gigilos summit looking west	Gigilos summit	Gigilos wiry scrub	Gigilos plants in limestone crevaces	2016 Crete Gigilos camp
The hut at the top of the popular Samari gorge	Heading towards the katseveli hut in Lefki Ori	Lammergier	Katseveli hut sign!	Katseveli hut	Our lovely hotel in Hania on the north west coast
Hania harbour	Hania harbour	Hania harbour	Hania harbour	Athens on the return trip to Scotland	Athens museum
Athens the acropolis	Athens the acropolis

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joseantonio		02-May-2016 19:47
thank you for showing us this beautiful island.V.

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