Platanias/Gerani

The Overall-Tourist West Border Of Crete 

FotoIn Platanias, which has grown together in the meantime with the neighboring place Agia Marina, everything turns on the (inclusively) tourism as well. Its original charm has at most still kept the old village Pano Platanias, at the top on the steep hill, although even here tavern lines up in tavern. Imposingly is - after a stroll by the alleys - still the view from there over the coast section.

FotoWhile itself in the gravel and sandy beaches of Platanias beach chair lines up in beach chair, only a few hundred meters in western direction the long and almost unfrequented beach of Gerani begins.

FotoReed belts, close to the sea and mostly agriculturally used surfaces with only isolated hotel or apartment arrangements (till now in 2000) mark the landscape here. The fact that the beach width can already halve itself just at the middle of September with storm, the picture on the left points ...

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