Α trip in Eastern Crete, in a land of unprecedented contradictions and dazzling beauty the predominant impression is that of a nature which is marked by all those features that human intelligence and sensuality should long for and the artistic expression should imitate.
- The nature of Eastern Crete remains rich and virgin
- There are many expanded candidate "NATURA areas"
- Numerous sites of exceptional natural beauty
- Rare geological forms and sights of geological development
- Ten (10) large gorges and geological crevices
- Three hundred (300) caves of great interest
- Two thousand one hundred (2100) species of self-sown plants, 300 are endemic and there are many aromatic or medicinal plants
- Α great number of rare animal and bird species. Here you can find the biggest colony in the world of the Eleanor's falcon (FALCO DΕ ELEONORA)
- The richest and purest sea biotope in the Aegean (Northern of Psiros island) where even corals grow.
- Wide meadows with the protected seaweed kind "Poseidonia
- The unique in Europe Palm tree forest of Vai
- The beginning of the European path Ε4 (Kato Zakros)
- Many biotopes of mixed Euro-African vegetation (in Vai, Koufonisi etc.)
- According to the ecology professor of the Crete University Mr. Mylonas: "A natural environment one of its kind in Greece and in Eur
ope is of course a very rare if not unique natural and aesthetic Jewel"
