The go-to Western Crete walking guide for discovering the best walks and car tours.
Strap on your boots and discover Western Crete on foot with the Sunflower Western Crete travel guide. And on the days when your feet may have had enough, enjoy some spectacular scenery on one of our legendary car tours.
The Sunflower Western Crete guide is indispensable for hiking in Western Crete or seeing Western Crete by car. Mountains rearing straight up from the sea, deep wooded gorges, ravines and valleys - and yet more glorious mountains, standing proud and acting as a magnet to the eye and the imagination - that-s Western Crete, or real Crete, as some would say.
Its strong, dramatic scenery and colours create sweeping landscapes of harsh but beautiful countryside - countryside that has been the backdrop for heroic deeds, ancient civilisations and constant intrigue for thousands of years, and the home of obdurate, tough-spirited people - made so by their la
