Kombineret guidet tur til Lasithi Plateau & Knossos Palace
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Udforsk med en guidet gruppe, klostret Kera Kardiotissa og Dikteon-hulen efterfulgt af et besøg i landsbyen Psychro. Nyd panoramaudsigten fra Seli Ambelou Lasithi Plateau og fuldfør din tur til det minoiske palads i Knossos, hvor civilisationens historie begyndte for 4000 år siden.
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Rejseplan
Kera Kardiotissa Monastery, er en ortodoks nunnery dedikeret til Jomfru Maria, beliggende nær landsbyen Kera i en højde af 650m. Det er berømt for ikonet for Mary, der anses for at være mirakuløs. Det er omgivet af befæstede mure og kirken har vægmalerier fra 14-15-15.
Dikteon Cave ligger lige over landsbyen Psychro på 1025 meter højde. Ifølge den græske mytologi antages det at være det sted, hvor Zeus, græske guderfar, blev holdt og fodret fra Amalthia, en ged, i hemmelighed for at være beskyttet mod sin far. Hulen i århundreder blev betragtet som et helligt sted for kultyrkelse, hvor der blev tilbudt og få fik lov til at komme ind. Det mest imponerende syn er søen på det laveste punkt, omgivet af massive stalaktitter og stalagmitter.
Kørsel omkring Lasithi-platået, der ligger i et område på 130 km², kommer vi til at nå Seli Ambelou ved den nordlige indgang på plateauet. Stedet har udsigt over en panoramaudsigt over plateauet. I 1950'erne og 1960'erne var plateauet et af Europas første vindmølleparker. Der var omkring 16 tusinde vindmøller, der pumpede grundvandet, som indbyggerne plejede at fodre deres afgrøder. Stop på Seli Ambelou til en frokostpause.
Turen går derefter til landsbyen Krasi. Krasi, er en lille traditionel landsby beliggende 9 km syd for landsbyen Malia beliggende på skråningen af Selena-bjerget. I centrum af landsbyen er der et kæmpe gammelt platantræ ("Platanus"). Bladene og træets grene giver skygge over hele pladsen i et unikt og uspoleret miljø. Vandkilderne og fontænerne i landsbyen er en af de smukkeste på øen Kreta.
Knossos slot er hovedstaden i den minoiske civilisation, kun 5 km væk syd for Heraklion by. Det er den største af de bevarede minoiske paladscentre på øen. Gå gennem det med din guide og find ud af, hvordan folk levede for 4000 år siden, folk, der menes at være de første europæere, levede som et organiseret samfund på Kreta og i deres civilisation selve paladset. Throne Room, freskerne, minoanske kolonner, vandforvaltningen vil stimulere din fantasi om, hvordan det organiserede samfund af minoerne levede på øen da.
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Afhentningssteder og tider
Afhentning og aflevering leveres fra områderne Sissi, Malia, Stalida Hersonissos, Anissaras, Analipsi, Gouves, Gournes, Kokkini Hani, Karteros, Heraklion, Amoudara. Afhentningstiden afhænger af placeringen af overnatningshotellet. Det nøjagtige afhentningstidspunkt og sted vil blive sendt via e-mail.
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Overall a tour that we can definitely recommend. It was perfectly organised, pick-up from the hotel, friendly personnel and very modern busses. The programme was not too stuffed and good to digest. However, the tour guide can improve (thus 4/5 stars).
This trip that includes Palace Knossos, the Lasithi Plateau, the Kardiotissa Monastery and the Dikteon Cave, is a well organized and worthwhile tour. I enjoyed all aspects of the tour.
So I basically paid 45€ for a bus ride and guiding. The guide that we had was really good of a story teller, which made listening to her guidance entertaining. She was nice and looked after everyone. I was on a budget and it just was a poor experience for me because of the lack of information that you need to ¡carry your id! in order to get the free tickets you need to buy yourself to latishi and knossos when you're a under 25yo european citizen. Since there was no mention of anything really, I would assume that everything is taken care of for me if I purchase a trip package that says I do not have to pay for anything else, than the really good food we had at this really nice restaurant in betweed the visits of latishi and knossos. We also visited a monastery and a nice shop that had clothing, ceramics, olive oil, cosmetics ect.
Fantastic tour company!! We thoroughly enjoyed visiting Zeus' Cave, seeing the plateau, having lunch at a local tavern and finishing up at Knossos Palace. Our guide was excellent. This company provides pick up service from hotels outside of Hersonissos which worked out great! Great tour, great day!
Great to see the history and sites! Tour guide was amazing and informative. Only downside was our tour group was a little rude and were impatient and pushing to get off the bus. No fault of the guided tour. Still worth a go!
This tour took 11 hours, 3 of which were interesting... the cave is cool as is Palace of Knossis but you spend half the day picking up people at hotels and dropping them off, it was awful! Lunch break is too long. Find a smaller group to do it with so it doesn't include a tour of every resort on the coast!! Our guide Mary was very knowledgeable but it was still torture. And wear proper shoes, if you try hiking up the non-paved (but more scenic) route to the cave in sandals you'll likely injure yourself. And they won't warn you that you need to be fit to get up there, down into the cave and back up again, I thought we were going to end up doing CPR on some people!
It’s a very intense trip, it could be narrowed only to Lasithi Plateu, Dikteon Cave, Knossos and lunch break. However, still recommend it
Picked up from Stalis by bus, and drove directly to t Lasithi plateau. Nice route! Straight from sea level to 900 meters. After visiting shop on to the cave where Zeus is said to have been born. Got to hear a lot about the history of the area, which is extensive. After lunch on to Knossos via a village where some people got off and on. Knossos very nice, and impressive. Guide very enthusiastic, and very knowledgeable. But a pretty loud voice, and the day is very long: 9:00 on the bus, 7:30 back at the hotel. All in all a beautiful, but exhausting day. I get the combI, but it's a lot!
Thanks for your feedback, what you are stating is true since this excursion combines two major attractions (Lasithi plateau and Knossos palace). Please note that these two attractions are also offered as individual excursions for people who desire to visit them on different days in a more relaxed manner.
This tour was not impressive at all. The guide was all over the place. She didn’t seem very knowledgeable. And if she was she was so animated that it barely came across. It was almost like she thought it she spoke big then we would feel it more. I do not like that every other minute is a stop to some sort of shop to spend money. The restaurant we went to was very delicious. That I liked. The coolest part of this trip was the cave in the beginning. Definitely very cool. Knossos was the worst part of the tour. About a third of the group, including myself, walked off to wander in our own directions. Her screaming through the headsets was too much. Then half of it was “just imagine This and that, I can’t tell you exactly what or how much but let’s say it was like this. You can imagine”. I’m not making this up. I couldn’t! I was so over it. $40 down the drain.
Thanks for your feedback. We are really sorry that you were not impressed. We handpick all of the guides that work for us based on the quality of the content they convey as well as their engagement and interaction with the guided group. We are really sorry that this didn't work in your case. There are shops at the place where the pottery workshop is but the purpose of the stop is to witness the art of pottery in action. We are really sorry that it felt like a shopping stop.
The tour was a very good combination of sightseeing, little bit hiking, history and culture. The tour guides explained everything in 3 languages. The bus is cool and comfortable. Be prepared for a really long day, especially if you are picked up early, the complete tour took us 12 hours. It was informative, the guides explained much more about each site compared what is written onto standard tourist signs. Well organized.
