Uncle Andy's cave tour of marmara beach, Loutro. Crete
Gopro6 X Cliffjump Crete / Marmara Beach (Loutro)
Ab ins Meer! Vielleicht sind es 10 Meter. Trotzdem aufpassen, bei Wind kann man evtl auch mal abrutschen. Von Loutro aus ca. eine Stunde wandern, nicht ganz ungefährlich. Sollte man abrutschen ist man auch tot. Loutro liegt zwischen Sfakia und Agia Roumeli (Samaria Schlucht). Ein verstecktes Paradies!
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Loutro Village
During our lunch stop in Loutro village. Join us from our base in Ilingas beach, south-west Crete to explore the best part of Crete.
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Loutro, nature’s peaceful marina
Leave your wheels and high-heels behind, and discover authentic holidays in Greece. The journey by boat from Hora Sfakion gives you just enough time to prepare for the pure and simple way of life that awaits you at Loutro. Built like an amphitheatre above the sheltered bay, with its quaint homes, tavernas and beach, this car-free hamlet moves at a leisurely pace. In Loutro’s bay you can kayak or canoe until you reach the nearby beaches of Glyka Nera and Marmara.
Loutro is a small seaside village situated approximately 71 km south of Chania city. It was the site of the ancient city of Phoenix and was the port of ancient Anopolis. Later, it became the winter port for Chora Sfakion, due to the fact that the enclosed bay and the small island at its entrance create a natural harbor where ships can be safe even in very bad weather.
You can stay at Loutro and use it as a base for visiting surrounding beaches, either by taxi boat, canoe or on foot. You can get a small ferry to the magestic beach of Glyka Nera east of the village. Moreover, you can canoe or walk in the E4 trail till the adjacent unorganized pebbly beaches of Timios Stavros and Pervolaki and then continue to Glyka Nera. However, if you want to stay at Loutro, the small beach in front of Loutro and the longer beach right after the east end of the village, called Keramos, are a very good choice, especially when wind from South is strong. The beaches are pebbly, well-organised and the water is always calm and has an amazing deep blue and green color. Moreover, you could either walk or catch a boat to the closeby beaches of Likos, Finikas and Marmara. Some lucky people that they visit the beach during April or Octomber and November can enjoy privacy, as they will be so alone there that could practically may have outdoors sex without anyone noticing!
Loutro is a place for those people who want something different. A small picturesque fishing village in south west Crete, not yet spoilt by mass tourism. For example there are no big hotels with swimming pools. There are no overcrowded streets, restaurants and beaches, there are no cars! The only access is by boat or as you wish, by foot (1.5-2 hour trekking from Chora Sfakion). There are daily ferries to/from Chora Sfakion, Sougia, Gavdos island, Paleochora and Agia Roumeli.
There are hundreds of people who walk down the Samaria Gorge each day in the summer. After a drink at one of the tavernas in Agia Roumeli where the gorge opens to the sea and perhaps enjoying a swim, most board the ferry taking them to Chora Sfakia (Sfakia).
There, waiting buses transport the aching crowds back to Chania. On the way, the ferry calls in at Loutro and many vow to visit it one day - few do so!
Loutro is peaceful - it is small and feels like a village even if 95% of the people here in the summer are visitors. It takes less than five minutes to amble from one side of the bay from Sifis Hotel & Maestrali Bar (Vangelis'), past Daskalogiannis Hotel, the tavernas, mini-market, the Blue House, the pebble beach, Hotel Porto Loutro, Notos, Fat Stav's, a couple more tavernas and then Keramos rooms and fish taverna.
Don't forget the church, second mini-market and a few other buildings - more rooms including perched-on-the-hillside Villa Niki - that's it!
Loutro evokes some great emotion - produced perhaps by the unique combination of the steep, harsh, rock mountainsides - audibly decorated with the clinking of goat bells - the sun visibly changing the panorama in view as its ark lights different aspects of the slopes forming the bowl - the bay that houses Loutro, the often-warm sea, the history and the people. This magic place.
No road leads here - therefore no mopeds, cars and trucks disturb contemplation, conversation and consumption of food or drink. A port of shelter for St Paul we hear, and one of the best shelters from a stormy workplace or busy professional life.
Small, stunningly beautiful - no nightlife or discos, just a multinational, multi-everything group of visitors staying in its closely grouped buildings. During the day even when all rooms are full, Loutro can be almost empty - many have gone to sauté gently on nearby beaches, or tackle books, strolls, walks and - let's be serious - hikes.
You are left to act as your own custodian of the semi circular bay, with small pebble beach, edged with hotel, domatia and waterside tavernas. So gaze at the ruins on the hilltop, measure the approaching ferry, decide whether to read a few pages more, walk over the hill to the taverna of Phoenix, or plot your ascent to Anopolis a thousand metres above...it's up to you. Time passes.
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Aradena - Marmara - Loutro (June 2019)
Beautiful hike down the Aradena gorge with a stop at Marmara beach to swim in the caves and have lunch. Then walk through E4 to picturesque Loutro and Sweet Water beach (Gliko Nero) before finishing in Hora Sfakion. (Total distance 17.3 km, walk duration 4,5 hours)
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Crete -Sfakia - Likos beach
Crete the most beautiful island of europe!
Likos place between Loutro and Marmara.
.. with view Gavdos, the southernmost point in europe!
Travel Greece: The AMAZING Hike To Loutro, Crete
Hiking from Hora Sfakion to Loutro on the island of Crete. Some of the clearest water in the world! INCREDIBLE!!
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A Trip to Sfakia
Some small clips I put together from a recent trip to Sfakia - Chania with friends. First attempt to make a video like that.
Locations: Marmara & Loutro, South Crete, Greece
Chora Sfakion, Crete and the Hidden Vrisi Beach Paradise
Still on the south side of Crete, we tour through Chora Sfakion and the beautifully hidden Vrisi beach. Vrisi beach is similar to Paraiso beach in Carvoeiro, Portugal, of which you can find a video for that one in our video library.
Chora Sfakion is a small, yet active town. The harbor area is full of food and drink choices, but most of the traffic from this small town is the results of the ferries coming and going from the harbor area and the buses that are there to conduct pickup and dropoff operations - mainly for those who ferry over from Agia Roumeli after hiking the famous Samaria Gorge.
What a great little stopover, tho - and the way the harbor is protected by the White mountains behind it is just awesome - and authentic Crete.
Vrisi beach is on the edge of town and has some of the best swimming water and is a bit of a hidden gem.
Enjoy the tour!
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Sweetwater Beach, Crete - Cliff Hike to Glyka Nera Beach, Chora Sfakion
An awesome cliff hike, a beautiful secluded beach, and Cretan village wine in beachside bar. On a beautiful day in southern Crete, you can't ask for more than that.
The hike to Sweetwater Beach starts on the cliffside road to the west of Chora Sfakion, before the most intense of the hairpin switchback turns up to Anapolis begin. Parking on the hill, come along as we hike down the cliff, along the mountain before it spits us out right onto the beautifully-secluded Sweetwater Beach (Glyka Nera).
When arriving at the beach, I've got to admit that there were a few initial surprises waiting for me, but to each his or her own and what a great day it was. The water was perfect and the wine even better.
There's no life like the good life, I like to say, and this trip to Sweetwater was one of the better ideas of my trip.
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Loutro - Marmara, Crete (July 2019)
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Crete. Loutro - Marmara Bay - Aradena Gorge
Round walking: Loutro - Marmara Bay - Aradena Gorge - Livaniana - Loutro.
Crete Aradena Gorge -Marmara - Loutro - Chora Sfakion
Marmara Beach - Seitan Limani (Sep 2019)
Music: Alice Merton - Lash Out
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marmara beach, south west of Crete
take a hike - Crete Aradena - Marmara beach
going on a hike in crete through Aradena gorge and ending at an off the beaten path beach - Marmara beach.
Along the way I make a stop at some ruins of a Turkish castle.
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Enter Loutro, The Hidden Village of Crete
You can only get to Loutro, Greece by boat! Subscribe for more videos:
Loutro (Λουτρό) is a village hidden deep in the countryside of Crete in area called Sfakia (Σφακιά) that is also home to the very delicious Safkian Pie ( more on that in a future episode). It is a magical place and with its laid back vibe epitomizes the charm of the Greek Islands to a T! Oh and did I mention that you can basically only get to Loutro by boat? Crazy right?! Ok... fine, you can get there by other means BUT... it's really, really hard due to the insane mountains surrounding the area, which make Loutro one of the most charming and isolated little villages you will see anywhere on the planet.
To get to Loutro we took a boat from Hora Sfakion. The boat ride was quite incredible in and of itself - gliding next to the coast you can even see little churches perched on the hilly landscape where no trace of roads can be seen.
This day was also Ava's birthday - she turned 6. Imagine celebrating your 6th birthday boat sailing in the Greek Islands and basking in the sun of a little village in Crete accessible pretty much only by boat? Just don't mind the pebbles... but she had her water shoes on anyways so no harm there.:p In any case, I think there are worse ways to spend your birthday right? ;)
We also ate at Nikos, which is a signature restaurant of Loutro and where you can be seated with a front side view of the beach - and even go for a swim if you so choose! Oh, and the Sea Bream, well... I still dream about it every so often, like today... Damn, why do Greek people know how to cook some of the best sea food in the world? It makes me miss Greece and Greek food that much more when I'm gone...
All in all this was a laid back day, I hope to show you what a day trip by boat looks like if you ever decide to head over to Loutro - which I highly recommend BTW - and I think a laid back, chilled out vibe works well here, as you can tell by my musical choices for the final cut.
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Loutro Crete
2 days holiday in Loutro Sfakai south of Crete :)
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Rooms and apartments in Loutro village in Sfakia