Car routes on Crete Greece
Car routes on Crete Greece: Here you find special car routes to detect the most beautiful places on Crete. By using these routes with your rental car, you can truly see a lot of Crete. Every month we will add a few fresh routes on this page. With these car routes you will see along the way lots of different aspects of Crete: archaeology, culture, flora & fauna, awesome mountainous landscape, geology, glances, taverns and restaurants, snorkelling locations, secluded beaches, etc. All the routes are selected by us with care.
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Car routes for our guests: Our guests can use all of our routes on Crete free of charge. We have all the car routes digital on GPS. Also we have plasticized charts with route descriptions. You can choose of more than fifty car routes inbetween fifty and three hundred kilometers. If you want to drive around on Crete for a day or more, we like to help you on your way.
Puzzle & excursion tour by car on Crete: During the summer holiday we organise a puzzle tour by car with our guests. We drive with more cars and with the help of Geocaching and route maps we will search for the questions that have to be answered per team. It is a real puzzle tour with superb joy for the entire family. Along the way there is coffee and a barbecue. We could call this the car rally of Crete.
Car rental for more days and stay on Crete: Zorbas Island is situated very central on Crete. From the accommodation you can detect a lot of different areas of Crete. We have made the routes in a way that you can travel on Crete from Zorbas Island for at least a month, without driving the same routes each time. This can be used in the summer as well as in winter time. We suggest the possibility for car rental and accommodation on Crete. You arrive at the airport and your car is ready with a route description to Zorbas Island. At Zorbas Island we will check together with you the car routes. On the routes we have also pointed out some nice walks. And our car routes have of many themes: from nature to archaeology to car routes along the beaches of Crete. This way, every day you can detect a fresh area on Crete and never miss out on the most beautiful catches sight of.
Several accommodations & car on Crete: It is for example also possible to stay two weeks on Crete at different locations and accommodations. Of course also then you can use our road maps or GPS. Your accommodations will be booked by us in advance. Car routes on Crete Greece.
Example car tours Crete: The Lassithi tour takes you to a number of typical Cretan villages, such as Krasi (where you can also find a very old washing place and the thickest plane tree of Crete), Kera (where you can visit an old church called Panagia Kera), Avdou, Kritsa, Agios Nikolaos and Elounda. In Avdou you’ll have the chance to visit a donkey farm. And especially the places Kritsa and Agios Nikolaos are very nice to visit. You will also visit the Lassithi Plateau. And after you have passed Elounda you can see the island of Spinalonga. During the Venetian occupation Spinalonga was used for defence purposes. Afterwards the island was used as a leper colony.
- From Zorbas left on the road (Kokkini Hani)
- Proceed until the main road, here left (Agios Nikolaos (50))
- After five hundred meters turn right to Gouves (Two); Note! after the green cross of the pharmacy
- Go straight over the bridge
- Arrive in Kalo Chorio (meaning: good village)
- Go after Tzermiado (25), Heraklion (31)
- At the T-junction turn right to Tzermiado (27), Plateau of Lassithi
- Go straight direction Avdou
- Peak: In Polamies is a donkey farm (go after the signs)
- In Avdou go right, direction OR. Lassithi
- Drive through Gonies
- Keep right direction, Lassithi Plateau (11)
- Lassithi (8) turn left towards Krasi; here you will find an old washing place and the thickest plane of Crete
- Proceed following Krasi (right)
- In Krasi keep left, direction: Lassithi Plateau
- After Krasi: left towards Plateau of Lassithi
- Turn right to visit the monastery of Kera
- After the monastery right direction Lassihti
- Drive through Kera
- On the Lassithi Plateau right direction Psihro (8)
- On the Plateau, you can visit the monastery of Vidiani
- Go after the road and you go through the following places: Kato Metochi and Agios Charatampos.
- Then you arrive in Plati, turn here left (do not go after the jeep signs)
- Go after the road towards Heraklion and Agios Nikolaos
- In Mesa Lasithi keep right towards Agios Nikolaos (41)
- Go after the road to Agios Nikolaos
- Go after Laronia and Agios Nikolaos
- Agios Nikolaos (8)
- Turn right towards Tapes, Kritsa, Lato (do not go after Agios Nikolaos anymore)
- Keep following Lato, Kritsa
- Go after Kritsa (Two.Five)
- The village of Kritsa is nice to visit
- Then go after Agios Nikolaos (Ten)
- Go after Agios Nikolas (1) until the center
- The center of Agios Nikolaos is also nice to visit!
- Then go after the signs to Elounda
- In the port of Elounda go right towards Plaka
- Drive through Plaka and then turn left towards Havgas (Three) and Neapoli (15)
- Turn right at the junction towards Neapoli
- After the village Fourni turn right towards Neapoli (8)
- Go after: Heraklion (54)
- After the village Neapoli go after Heraklion, Fresh Road
- Go after Heraklion (52)
- You’re on the motorway and go after it until the exit Kato Gouves, Anopoli, Old Road
- Turn left towards Gournes, Kokkini Hani and Heraklion, Old Road
- After three km you are back at Zorbas (right)
Fly-drive on Crete : Also a fly-drive holiday on Crete is an option, with you moving on every day. We organise fly-drive routes from one up to three weeks. Another possibility is to stay a week in the East of Crete and a week in the West of Crete. With accommodations at different locations and awesome car routes, this is a wonderful option for a loosening holiday.
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