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Beautiful vista including mountains, rocky fields and Aposelemis dam, from Homo Sapiens museum, Lasithi, Crete
Beautiful vista including Aposelemis dam, villages, even the sea from Homo Sapiens museum, Lasithi, Crete
Die Hochebene liegt auf über 800 m Höhe und ist bekannt aufgrund der zahlreichen Windmühlen, die man dort noch vorfindet. Ursprünglich sollen es "tausende" gewesen sein.
2022.05 Kreta-849-BA
taking me back again to the sea , to the summer, to the endless moment of love! Play the accordion again!
Beautiful vista including mountains, rocky fields and Aposelemis dam, from Homo Sapiens museum, Lasithi, Crete
i am back from crete with new flickria. At first this wonderful species from the cretan highlands. Zerynthia cerisy cretica
A thyme scented level plain, 6x11 km, 840m high and locked in by mountains. Its soil is rich and the plateau has been continuously cultivated for at least 8000 years except for the 200 years of the Venetian occupation from 1293.
Touristically, it is famed for its picturesque cloth-sailed wind pumps: www.flickr.com/photos/lesc/52221716073/in/photostream/ - Contuous drainage is needed because the water table is high.
Compare the Greek iron tower and cloth sails with the wooden smock wind pump of the Cambridgeshire Fens
www.flickr.com/photos/lesc/52206931398/in/photostream/
The water table of the Lasithi plateau
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is so high that continuous drainage is necessary. There were once some 10,000 of the wind pumps so beloved by tourist cameras.
Now they are largely replaced by planet-warming diesel and electric pumps. No doubt we shall see a return to wind power.
*Juniper forest of Chrysi
Αρκευθόδασος Χρυσής
Chrysi or Chrisi (Greek: Χρυσή, romanized: Chrysí, lit. 'golden'; also known as Gaidouronisi, Greek: Γαϊδουρονήσι, romanized: Gaïdouronísi, lit. 'donkey island') is an uninhabited Greek island approximately 15 kilometres (9 miles) south of Crete close to Ierapetra in the Libyan Sea.Approximately 700 metres (2,300 feet) east of the island is the island of Mikronisi. Administratively these islands fall within the Ierapetra municipality in Lasithi.
It contains a small harbour and church, the Church of Saint Nicholas, on its northwestern coast.
Chrissi is protected as an "area of intense natural beauty". The island has the largest naturally formed Juniperus macrocarpa forest in Europe. There is no fresh drinking water on the island. The majority of trees have an average age of 200 years and average height of up to 7 metres (23 feet), some of the trees are up to 300 years old and 10 metres (33 feet) tall. The density is approximately 28 trees per hectare (69.16/acre).
I tried to get close to these sheep, but every time I was close enough they would run off. Worried I would chase them too far I had to be happy with this shot.
This is Lasithi Plateau, the birth place of Zeus is here in a cave to the right of the picture up in the mountains. Usually those mountains are full of snow this time of year, this year only a few tiny patches of snow can be seen. Weather cycle or global warming. I think we all know the answer to that.
Die griechisch-orthodoxe Kirche Panagía Kerá liegt bei Kritsa auf Kreta (Griechenland) unweit der Lasithi-Hochebene. Diese Kirche stammt aus dem 13. Jahrhundert und beherbergt gut erhaltene und restaurierte byzantinische Fresken.