Kombinierte geführte Tour zum Lasithi Plateau & Knossos Palace
Beschreibung
Erkunden Sie mit einer geführten Gruppe das Kloster Kera Kardiotissa und die Dikteon-Höhle, gefolgt von einem Besuch im Dorf Psychro. Genießen Sie den Panoramablick vom Seli Ambelou Lasithi Plateau und beenden Sie Ihre Tour zum minoischen Palast von Knossos, wo die Geschichte der Zivilisation vor 4000 Jahren begann.
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Reiseverlauf
Kera Kardiotissa Monastery ist ein orthodoxes Nonnenkloster, das der Jungfrau Maria geweiht ist. Es befindet sich in der Nähe des Dorfes Kera auf einer Höhe von 650 m. Es ist berühmt für die Ikone Marias, die für ein Wunder gehalten wird. Es ist von Festungsmauern umgeben und die Kirche besitzt Wandgemälde aus dem 14. bis 15. Jahrhundert.
Die Dikteon-Höhle liegt auf 1025 Metern Höhe direkt oberhalb des Dorfes Psychro. Nach der griechischen Mythologie soll es der Ort sein, an dem Zeus, der Vater der griechischen Götter, von Amalthia, einer Ziege, gehalten und gefüttert wurde, um sie vor seinem Vater zu schützen. Die Höhle galt jahrhundertelang als heilige Kultstätte, wo Opfergaben gemacht wurden und nur wenige Menschen eintreten durften. Am eindrucksvollsten ist der See am tiefsten Punkt, umgeben von massiven Stalaktiten und Stalagmiten.
Um das Lasithi-Plateau herum zu fahren, das auf einer Fläche von 130 km² liegt, erreichen wir Seli Ambelou am nördlichen Eingang des Plateaus. Der Ort bietet einen Panoramablick auf das Plateau. In den 1950er und 1960er Jahren war das Plateau einer der ersten Windparks Europas. Es gab ungefähr 16 Tausend Windmühlen, die das Grundwasser pumpten, mit dem die Bewohner ihre Ernten fütterten. Halten Sie in Seli Ambelou eine Mittagspause ein.
Anschließend führt die Tour in das Dorf Krasi. Krasi ist ein kleines traditionelles Dorf, das 9 km südlich des Dorfes Malia am Hang des Selena-Berges liegt. Im Zentrum des Dorfes steht eine riesige alte Platane („Platanus“). Die Blätter und Äste des Baumes spenden auf dem gesamten Platz Schatten in einer einzigartigen und unberührten Umgebung. Die Wasserquellen und Brunnen des Dorfes gehören zu den schönsten auf der Insel Kreta.
Knossos Palast ist die Hauptstadt der minoischen Zivilisation, nur 5 km südlich von Heraklion. Es ist das größte der minoischen Palastzentren auf der Insel. Gehen Sie mit Ihrem Reiseführer durch und erfahren Sie, wie die Menschen vor 4.000 Jahren lebten, Menschen, von denen man annimmt, dass sie die ersten Europäer waren, als organisierte Gemeinschaft auf Kreta lebten und der Palast selbst als Zentrum ihrer Zivilisation. Der Thronsaal, die Fresken, die minoischen Säulen, das Wassermanagement werden Ihre Fantasie darüber anregen, wie die organisierte Gemeinschaft der Minoer damals auf der Insel lebte.
Highlights
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Abholorte & -zeiten
Abholung und Rückgabe aus den Gebieten Sissi, Malia, Stalida Hersonissos, Anissaras, Analipsi, Gouves, Gournes, Kokkini Hani, Karteros, Heraklion und Amoudara. Die Abholzeit hängt vom Standort des Hotels ab. Die genaue Abholzeit und der genaue Abholort werden per E-Mail gesendet.
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Wichtige Informationen
- Nicht empfohlen für Reisende mit Herz-Kreislauf-Schwäche
- Für alle Fitnesslevel geeignet
Bewertungen(29)
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.
