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Elafonisi Island is near the southeast tip of Crete, 43km from Kastelli and 76km from Chania. The road from Chrisoskalitissa continues as a dirt track of 5km to Elafonisi.
This lovely islet was the site of a massacre of 850 women and children by the Turks in 1824. The women and children were hidden there and as the Turks camped on the beaches a horse found the shallow, 0.5 - 0.8 metre-deep water path to the island. The Turks discovered the women and children and slaughtered them. There is a memorial plaque on the highest point of the islet
This is a popular beach with bright white sand and bright blue water. The beach is flat and open to the sun, and is appropriate for families with children, with smooth sand and shallow waters. Walk 50m north to the islet of Elafonisi for more seculed bathing (nudists sometimes come here).
On the most western part of Crete is the best beach i have been to. It was quite a drive with the jeep, but oh so worth it. I think the place was called Fallasana, but i might be wrong.
Even i am impressed with the form i show here.
(Jim)
The Gelactic Centre of the Milky Way sets behind Triopetra Rocks, with the lights of the Island of Gavdos off Southern Crete.
Elafonisi Island is near the southeast tip of Crete, 43km from Kastelli and 76km from Chania. The road from Chrisoskalitissa continues as a dirt track of 5km to Elafonisi.
This lovely islet was the site of a massacre of 850 women and children by the Turks in 1824. The women and children were hidden there and as the Turks camped on the beaches a horse found the shallow, 0.5 - 0.8 metre-deep water path to the island. The Turks discovered the women and children and slaughtered them. There is a memorial plaque on the highest point of the islet
This is a popular beach with bright white sand and bright blue water. The beach is flat and open to the sun, and is appropriate for families with children, with smooth sand and shallow waters. Walk 50m north to the islet of Elafonisi for more seculed bathing (nudists sometimes come here).
Elafonisi Island is near the southeast tip of Crete, 43km from Kastelli and 76km from Chania. The road from Chrisoskalitissa continues as a dirt track of 5km to Elafonisi.
This lovely islet was the site of a massacre of 850 women and children by the Turks in 1824. The women and children were hidden there and as the Turks camped on the beaches a horse found the shallow, 0.5 - 0.8 metre-deep water path to the island. The Turks discovered the women and children and slaughtered them. There is a memorial plaque on the highest point of the islet
This is a popular beach with bright white sand and bright blue water. The beach is flat and open to the sun, and is appropriate for families with children, with smooth sand and shallow waters. Walk 50m north to the islet of Elafonisi for more seculed bathing (nudists sometimes come here).
Phalasarna is an ancient Greek harbor town on the northwest coast of Crete. Because ancient writers rarely mentioned the site, its history is known virtually entirely from archaeology. A learned observer (Captain T. A. B. Spratt, of the Royal Navy), noted in 1859 that the former harbor of the deserted site was now 200 yards from the sea and that the ancient sea coast must have risen at least twenty four feet. Modern excavation has confirmed this judgment. Radiocarbon dating of fossil algae along the ancient sea level mark on the cliffs around Phalasarna estimates the sudden sea level change at some time more than sixteen centuries ago. A very probable event was the great earthquake and tsunami of 21 July A.D. 365, which wreaked catastrophic damage on all the coasts of the eastern Mediterranean and was recorded by dozens of ancient Greek and Roman writers. But four centuries previously Phalasarna had already been destroyed by the hand of man. The city was a notorious pirate refuge and when in 68-67 BCE the Romans sent forces to eliminate piracy from the eastern Mediterranean they stormed Phalasarna, blocked its harbor with massive masonry, and relocated the inhabitants. No ancient sources testify to these events, but evidence of burning and the harbor blockaage itself suggest the tentative conclusions of the excavators, Elpida Hadjidaki and Frank Frost, of the University of California, Santa Barbara