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✨Day 9: Samaria Gorge ✨ Here are some interesting facts of this gorge 👇🏼 -🗻the Samaria Gorge is a national park in Crete, Greece. It became a national park in 1962 to protect the wild goats (kri kri) of Crete. - 🚶🏻it's a 16 km hike that starts from Omalos and ends in a village called Agia Roumeli (the actual gorge is 14km long, but if you want to get to the beach you have to go the extra mile..) -😲the Gates, or "iron gates" is the most famous part of the hike (slide 4). Here, the gorge closes in to a width of 4m long but soars to the skies of a height of 300m long. -🌲there are beautiful natural views all along the way, as well as little churches and remnants of old villages throughout. - 🌊the end of the hike ends at a crystal blue beach with black sand, so it's great to soak your feet in right after the long day. - 😋at the bottom there are plenty of tavernas in the village of Agia Roumeli. So fuel up and hang out before you catch a ferry back and enjoy a sfakianes pita! It's a mizithra cheese filled pie topped with a drizzle of honey and it is delicious! -✔️if you ever make it to Crete, definitely put this on your bucket list! It makes for a gorge-ous day. 😏 Post Samaria gorge treat: σφακιανής πίτες (Cretan mizithra cheese pie with honey). You all need to come to Crete and try these. Best thing ever. 😋 I'll share some pics & into of the hike later! ✨day 8, strolled the streets of the limani in Chania✨ I LOVE this area of Chania so much and all the beautiful colors of the buildings and shops. We had sfakianes pites last night and I'm still thinking about them today. 😋 🚶🏻right now I'm on my way to hike the Samaria gorge, it's about a 16 km hike down this gorgeous Gorge. I'll post about it later so you can see! Have a great Saturday everyone! Anyone doing anything fun?? ✨Day 7, Cretan cooking class! ✨ the cooking class I went to was AMAZING. It was a 5 hour experience of touring through the hosts garden, winery and cooking and enjoying great food and company. We made dakos, yemista, fasolakia, tzatziki and kalitsounia. And then they surprised us with stifado too. SO MUCH FOOD. Everything was so good, and most of the food was fresh from the garden so you can imagine how delicious it was. Later, I'll write all about the experience with some recipes to share as well! If you ever get the chance to take a cooking class somewhere I highly suggest it! You can't beat learning a cultures cuisine from a local! 😋Enjoy your weekend everyone, I'll be busy walking off last nights dinner! But if you have any questions about the food let me know and I would be happy to answer 🤗 CRETAN COOKING CLASS COMPLETE! 🙌🏼 I went with 20 other people that I've been touring around Greece with and it was such an amazing night. Here I am with the host (another) Eleni and in the second picture, her cute mother Chrisoula who we all just called "mama!" I'll post some more details of it with all the food in another post and later when I get home I'll write about my experience in a blog. But what I can say now is that it definitely was the highlight of my trip! ✨Day 6: trip to Knossos & the archeological museum in Heraklion, Crete ✨ 🏛Knossos, also known as the Palace of Minos after King Minos, is an ancient Minoan palace & city dating clear back to around 7000 BC. It was destroyed by either earthquakes, fires or invasion. - 🚶🏻The Minoan civilization flourished in Crete and other Aegean islands from 2600-1500 BC. - 🤓the Heraklion Archeological museum is probably one of the best museums for Cretan history and Minoan art, containing tons of artifacts from the Minoan civilization, much of which was found in Knossos. - 👉🏼if you're into ancient civilizations, definitely check out Knossos and the museum! - 🤗FINALLY heading to Chania tomorrow. Cooking class tomorrow night and I couldn't be more excited!! 😃😃😃hope you're all doing amazing and enjoying your week! First order of business upon arrival in Crete: bougatsa (phyllo pastry with mizithra cheese.. or you can order it with a cream filling). Must learn how to make this. 😋😋😋 Day 5: closed the door on the Athens adventure. Just arrived to Crete via ferry and will be here for a week (Iraklion & Chania)! ps look it's my favorite flower of Greece again 🌺

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