Ann's Guide Life

Samaria Gorge! I thought I knew pain, but you don’t know pain before you have walked through the Samaria Gorge. All I could think as I walked the last 3km of 18km was – why the hell do people want to do this on their vacation?!

This is a true nature experience; I haven’t seen anything so breath taking as this before. Ok the walk is tough, but  the scenery is so amazing its almost spiritual. And I’m not a spiritual person – no.

The walk is down hill and steep. Rocky and uneven. The Gorge offers deep forests, old settlements, snow white limestone contrasting with the green and brown of wild nature. Mountain walls 300m high and all shapes and colors.

Ok, I wanted to cry the last 3km but the feeling as I sat down for a late lunch in Agia Roumeli was just blissful.

To be honest I worked my ass off in the Gorge, no wonder I was in pain! It felt like walking through Europe. I passed people speaking; German, Italian, French, Russian, Danish, American, Greek and Norwegian.

So if on vacation in Crete, Go to Samaria!!!