Kissamos, Selinos, Western Crete, Europe - A Walker's Guide

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5 Mar 2006

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9781852844196

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1852844191

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17.2 x 11.6 x 1.5cm

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300g

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256

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5 Mar 2006

Western Crete

45 walks in Kissamos and Selinos by Alan Hall

Guide to walking in the Kissamos and Selinos areas of Crete. Kissamos, in western Crete, has a rich variety of landscape for walkers. A wide selection of mountain treks, ridge and hill walks, gorge explorations, cliff and coastal walks, and rambles from village to village and through the many archaeological wonders Crete has to offer. More...

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Seasons

Best months are April, May, early June, September and October. July and August are too hot unless Read More... you only want a stroll.

Centres

Access normally through Chania. Bases include Kolimbari, Afrata, Ravdouha, Nopigia, Kastelli. Read More... Kaliviani, Falasarna, Platanos, Katsomatados, Elos, Kefali, Elafinisos, Paleochora and Kandanis.

Difficulty

Routes not too long but waymarking is limited, water needs careful management and rescue is Read More... unlikely.

Must See

Greek hospitaity, views down on the sandy beaches and stark rocky cliffs, an ancient civilisation.

Quick and Easy Greek, Teach Yourself, Hodder and Stoughton, 1994
ISBN 0 340 38766 1

Crete – The Traveller’s Guide, Eberhard Fohrer, Springfield Books Ltd, 1990
ISBN 0-947655–86–7

Crete – The White Mountains, Lorraine Wilson, Cicerone Press, 2000,
reprinted 2002, ISBN 1 85284 298 9

Kissamos – Green Tourism Guide of Kissamos Province (Kissamos Tourist Offices)
Includes walks, history, churches, folklore, flora and fauna, and accommodation

Blue Guide Crete, Pat Cameron, 7th edition, WW Norton, ISBN 0 3933 2134 7
Municipality of Inahorion – ‘Our Place1/4Our Living’, a local tourism leaflet guide

Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis, Faber and Faber ISBN 0 6848 2554 6

Paleochora (A Look Back into the Past), Nicolaos Pyrovolakis, (printer Mich.
Georvassakis), 1998. Relates to Paleochora walks and walks in and around
Kandanos

The Byzantine Churches of Kandanos, The Cultural Association ‘Kandania’, 1999
ISBN 960–86475–0–9 Highly recommended

Birds and Mammals of Crete, George Sfikas, Efstathiades Group, 1987

Also Trees and Shrubs of Greece, 1979; Wild Flowers of Crete, 1978

The Cretan Runner, George Psychoundakis (trans. PL Fermor), Penguin
ISBN 0 1402 7322 0

The Fall of Crete, Alan Clark, Cassell ISBN 0 3043 5348 5

Ten Days to Destiny, GC Kiriakopoulos, Holy Cross Orthodox Press
ISBN 0 9176 5349 1