Crete – Still Existing Paradise
The biggest Greek island – Crete with its unique position between three continents is the birth place of the highest pantheon god Zeus. It’s serenity, cordiality, homeliness, special energy of the remains of over 4500 years old Minoan palaces of the oldest European civilisation, beautiful sacral Byzantine art of churches and monasteries, traditional villages, agricultural plateaus in the heart of the mountains, gorges, caves, mountain ranges with the picks over of 2400 m high, Venetian capital, picturesque town with the lake, the highest jet-set place, islet with golden sand beach and protected cedars of Lebanon, the most hospitality natives, the genuine culinary art and intact nature treasures is still existent paradise.
There are infinite possibilities how to discover this small continent with more then 35 milion olive trees. You can imagine the production of the olive oil, not to mention the taste of the Cretan olives. No wonder Crete is known to have the most healthy Mediterranean cusine.
There are more than 2000 types of spices and herbs on the island, 160 of which are endemic, like diktamos and krithamos. Most of them can be used in the kitchen or in medicine. With not a lot of effort you can pick up planty of them by hiking around gorges and hills of the intact Cretan nature. (več …)