Discover the hidden treasures of  East Chania mainland and visit unique places… Taste the local delicacies and learn everything about the Cretan products…

All pick-up points for this tour are within Chania region. For pick-up from the other regions in Crete, please contact us.

Tour highlights

• Learn about the Cretan way of life
• Discover the secrets of local products
• Analytic descriptions of goods production
• Learn about the history and culture of Crete
•  A day full of tastings and beautiful landscapes
• Explore the mainland and the villages of Chania
• Increase your tasting memory and add new flavours to it
• Visit small family businesses and meet the local producers
• Lunch at a traditional “Kafeneio” (small “meze” restaurant)
• Taste the Cretan olive oil, raki, cheese, honey and a lot of other delicacies

Description

This will be an unforgettable tasting day for you and your friends exploring the mainland of Chania and discovering the non-touristic locations of Apokoronas province. In a few hours, you’ll have the chance to meet the local producers and taste the pure and authentic delicacies of Crete.

The tour will start from a local olive mill where you will observe the olive oil production and learn the secrets of the finest quality of olive oil, the extra virgin one. Analytic descriptions will make you understand everything about olive oil from harvesting to your palate—exquisite tastes and flavours. Then, leaving the olive mill, you will get in touch with “Tsikoudia” or “Raki” production, the most famous Cretan spirit, by visiting a local distillery in a traditional village. The old conventional distillery tour and the new professional one will give you an idea about “holy water’s” production, and a tasting will follow.

Through a fantastic route passing by villages of the province, you will arrive in the White mountains’ foothills. In the village of Embrosneros, you will first stop to a bakery to taste the local bread, cookies & biscuits and then to a traditional cheese factory. The secrets of “Graviera”, “Anthotiros” and “Mizithra” cheese will be revealed in front of your eyes. After explaining each cheese’s production, you will taste them combined with local honey and rusk (dry bread).

The last stop will be in a local coffee shop (“Kafeneio”), where the Cretans are also enjoying meals. Incredible flavours and traditional recipes are waiting for you in the charming square of the village of Fres. The traditional lunch will introduce you to many elements of Cretan cuisine and gastronomy. People say that taste is our best sense. After this tour, your tasting memory will be increased and full of new flavours!

What is included in this tour?
Items that are included in the cost of tour price.

• Hotel pick up and drop off
• Bottled water per person
• English speaking, local driver/escort
• All tours & tastings
• Traditional Cretan lunch
• Transport by air-conditioned minibus/minivan
• All taxes, fees and handling charges
• Small-group tour (up to 20pax)

What is not included in this tour?
Items that are not included in the cost of tour price.