Combined Guided Tour to Lasithi Plateau & Knossos Palace

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Duration:9 hours to 10 hours (approx.)
Location: Heraklion, Crete

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Explore with a guided group, the monastery of Kera Kardiotissa and the Dikteon Cave followed by a visit to Psychro village. Enjoy the panoramic views from Seli Ambelou Lasithi Plateau and complete your tour to the Minoan Palace of Knossos where civilization history began 4000 years ago.

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1. Kera Kardiotissa Monastery
Kera Kardiotissa Monastery, is an Orthodox nunnery dedicated to Virgin Mary, situated near the village of Kera at an altitude of 650m. It is famous for the icon of Mary believed to be miraculous. It is surrounded by fortified walls and the church features murals dating back to 14th - 15th century.
2. Dikteon Cave
The Dikteon Cave is just above the village of Psychro at 1025 meters altitude. According to Greek mythology, it is believed to be the place where Zeus, the father of Greek gods, was kept and fed from Amalthia, a goat, in secret to be protected from his father. The cave for centuries was considered a sacred place of cult worship, where offerings were made and few were allowed to enter. The most impressive sight is the lake at the lowest point, surrounded by massive stalactites and stalagmites.
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Driving around the Lasithi Plateau that lies in an area of 130 km², we are going to reach Seli Ambelou at the northern entrance of the plateau. The place is overlooking a panoramic view of the plateau. In the 1950s and 1960s the plateau was one of Europe's first wind farms. There were about 16 thousand windmills pumping the groundwater, which the inhabitants used to feed their crops.Stop at Seli Ambelou for a lunch break.
4. Platanus Tree
The tour will then be heading to the village of Krasi. Krasi, is a small traditional village located 9 km to the south of the village of Malia set on the slope of Selena mountain. In the center of the village, there is a huge ancient plane tree ("Platanus"). The leaves and the branches of the tree provide with shade all over the square in a unique and unspoiled environment. The water springs and the fountains of the village are one of the most beautiful on the island of Crete.
5. The Palace of Knossos
Knossos palace is the capital of Minoan civilization, just 5km away on the south of Heraklion town. It is the largest of the preserved Minoan palatial centers on the island. Walk through it with your guide and find out how people lived 4.000 years ago, people that are believed to be the first Europeans, lived as an organized community in Crete and the center of their civilization the Palace itself. The Throne Room, the frescoes, the Minoan Columns, the water management will stimulate your imagination on how the organized community of the Minoans was living on the island back then.

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Posted By : Christian R
Overall a tour that we can definitely recommend. It was perfectly organised, pick-up from the hotel, friendly personnel and very modern busses. The programme was not too stuffed and good to digest. However, the tour guide can improve (thus 4/5 stars).
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Posted On : 2023-09-06 15:51:27

Posted By : Helene_B
This trip that includes Palace Knossos, the Lasithi Plateau, the Kardiotissa Monastery and the Dikteon Cave, is a well organized and worthwhile tour. I enjoyed all aspects of the tour.
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Posted On : 2023-05-16 15:44:37

Posted By : 162kia
So I basically paid 45€ for a bus ride and guiding. The guide that we had was really good of a story teller, which made listening to her guidance entertaining. She was nice and looked after everyone.
I was on a budget and it just was a poor experience for me because of the lack of information that you need to ¡carry your id! in order to get the free tickets you need to buy yourself to latishi and knossos when you're a under 25yo european citizen.
Since there was no mention of anything really, I would assume that everything is taken care of for me if I purchase a trip package that says I do not have to pay for anything else, than the really good food we had at this really nice restaurant in betweed the visits of latishi and knossos.
We also visited a monastery and a nice shop that had clothing, ceramics, olive oil, cosmetics ect.
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Posted On : 2022-09-27 21:40:38

Posted By : WallingfordEl
Fantastic tour company!! We thoroughly enjoyed visiting Zeus' Cave, seeing the plateau, having lunch at a local tavern and finishing up at Knossos Palace. Our guide was excellent. This company provides pick up service from hotels outside of Hersonissos which worked out great! Great tour, great day!
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Posted On : 2022-09-19 07:53:12

Posted By : Taylor_M
Great to see the history and sites! Tour guide was amazing and informative. Only downside was our tour group was a little rude and were impatient and pushing to get off the bus. No fault of the guided tour. Still worth a go!
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Posted On : 2022-09-14 13:30:44

Posted By : pinktravelgirl
This tour took 11 hours, 3 of which were interesting... the cave is cool as is Palace of Knossis but you spend half the day picking up people at hotels and dropping them off, it was awful! Lunch break is too long. Find a smaller group to do it with so it doesn't include a tour of every resort on the coast!! Our guide Mary was very knowledgeable but it was still torture. And wear proper shoes, if you try hiking up the non-paved (but more scenic) route to the cave in sandals you'll likely injure yourself. And they won't warn you that you need to be fit to get up there, down into the cave and back up again, I thought we were going to end up doing CPR on some people!
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Posted On : 2022-05-12 14:24:01

Posted By : Marta_K
It’s a very intense trip, it could be narrowed only to Lasithi Plateu, Dikteon Cave, Knossos and lunch break. However, still recommend it
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Posted On : 2021-09-01 11:42:09

Posted By : Jeanine_G
This tour was not impressive at all. The guide was all over the place. She didn’t seem very knowledgeable. And if she was she was so animated that it barely came across. It was almost like she thought it she spoke big then we would feel it more. I do not like that every other minute is a stop to some sort of shop to spend money. The restaurant we went to was very delicious. That I liked. The coolest part of this trip was the cave in the beginning. Definitely very cool. Knossos was the worst part of the tour. About a third of the group, including myself, walked off to wander in our own directions. Her screaming through the headsets was too much. Then half of it was “just imagine This and that, I can’t tell you exactly what or how much but let’s say it was like this. You can imagine”. I’m not making this up. I couldn’t! I was so over it. $40 down the drain.
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Posted On : 2021-08-17 08:29:33

Posted By : Kolos_K
The tour was a very good combination of sightseeing, little bit hiking, history and culture. The tour guides explained everything in 3 languages. The bus is cool and comfortable. Be prepared for a really long day, especially if you are picked up early, the complete tour took us 12 hours. It was informative, the guides explained much more about each site compared what is written onto standard tourist signs. Well organized.
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Posted On : 2021-07-14 11:41:09

Posted By : Zilvinas_M
Was very good expidrence. Guides were very knowligible and we saw a lot in One day. We saw Knossos, had pottery class,lunch in vilige was great.
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Posted On : 2021-07-07 03:15:09