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“Below the trees - beautiful 😍”

Jun 2024

Nice beach 🏖️ (stones).

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Tobi

Selters, Germany3 contributions

Below the trees - beautiful 😍

Jun 2024 • Couples

Nice beach 🏖️ (stones). Toilet can be used of the restaurant ( of course something needs to be ordered). No umbrella needed. Nice shadow places below the trees... Maybe not a "every day beach" but really worth a trip/day!!

Written 19 June 2024

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kszulecki

35 contributions

rocky lagoon off the beaten track

Jul 2016 • Family

it's actually very easy to reach but for some reason - not many tourists come here. The road is steep but not really a problem, and its certainly worth making the effort. You can swim inside a small lagoon or snorkel between the rocks. Do remember to have some shoes to swim/walk as the bottom is stony.

Written 23 July 2016

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FCHOShip

New Buckenham, UK40 contributions

Quiet beach

Aug 2019 • Family

This is a quiet pebble beach with crystal clear water. The rocks and trees at the back of the beach provide some shade and the day we visited there was no wind. Good for snorkelling.

Written 28 August 2019

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Doctor G 06

Padova, Italy219 contributions

Away from crowded famous places in the beautiful and wild Spatha peninsula

Sept 2016 • Family

The Spatha peninsula is largely inhabited and if you wanna escape from the crowd and mess of the most renowed places you'll find lonely, although less equipped, places.
Ravdoucha is a tiny village on the top of a hill, from where a steep and narrow dead-end road goes down to the beaches. A smaller one is a mix of rocks and terrain, here and there somehow muddy, with a few free sun beds and umbrellas and a shower, facing a small bay of crystal water protected by a pier. A second one is totally rocky and, besides a natural pool, faces a wider front of more open sea. A small church in the rock lays on the road between the two beaches. The uphill land to the extreme tip of the peninsula and the Monastery of Ioanni Gkionas and Agios Pavlos Monastery and beach is of breathtaking wilderness and beauty.

Written 25 September 2016

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giedriusgriska

Vilnius, Lithuania147 contributions

Rocks and waves

Apr 2019 • Couples

Beautiful and remote place. Not too many people, especially on a low season. Fresh and clear water, just coastline is mostly stony, so it's difficult to go in and out of the water when strong waves.

Written 21 April 2019

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Toni

Lund, Sweden106 contributions

Good for snorkeling

Sept 2017 • Couples

This is the best beach for snorkeling that I've come across in Crete. It is pebbly, so water is very clear. Entering the water on the far left side, you will come across some corals. Then if you swim to the left by the cliffs, you will pass by what seems to be an underwater cave, and if you continue swimming ~400 m you will get to something that looks like an abandoned quarry that has some underwater wreckage. The beach is very uncrowded and has some natural shade.

Written 23 September 2017

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