This tour is your chance to discover what lies on the south part of the island, where it's always a few degrees hotter. Use all your senses, yes smell the very fragrance of the island as you ride through aromatic groves and vineyards of the Messara Plain. Villages where time seems to have stopped a hundred years ago, with whitewashed houses, with children waving, and old men sitting in the shade of the Kafenions, watching the world, and time, go by.
The south is home of the Minoan palace of Phaistos, built for King Radamantys, banished to the south by his brother Minos. With its view over the plain, this place is simply breathtaking the site has been excavated and left for all to see.
Spend a leisurely time at the coastal village of Matala, famous for its "hippie caves" in the 60's, in a magnificent backdrop of white cliffs. Time to swim, laze in the sun, or relax and have lunch in one of the beaches taverns on one of our 300 Cretan days of sunshine.
Join us driving inland to the mountain village of Zaros, hidden amongst the citrus groves, a chance to take lunch on one of the rare rainy days at one of the taverns renown for their freshwater trout. The picturesque Sweetwater Lake is one of the only ones of Crete, perfectly reflecting the pine trees in its crystal clear waters.
Discover Gortys, an important Greco-Roman town, one of the few remaining on the island, with its 'Law Stones' in the amphitheater, the last evidence of the bygone complex judicial system.