ADVENTURE SAFARI CRETAN LIFE – COOKING LESSONS

Discover with us the traditional life of Crete through local activities such as goat milking and cheese making by visiting a traditional paddock. Enjoy an impressive gorge climb, learn through the cooking lessons all the secrets of Cretan cuisine, create your own ceramics and learn everything about olive oil.

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Tour Details

Duration 8 hours approximately 

Our first stop is a verdant, representative village of Crete, Potamies. We will be guided in a traditional paddock and we will see the milking of the goats but also many local activities. There we will taste traditional products that we just watched their production.

Next stop is the Aposelemis dam, the largest water supply project in Crete. The village of Sfendili is submerged in the waters of the dam with its impressive old houses fading on the surface of the water. Also a natural wetland with a variety of birds.

We continue uphill on dirt roads to the gorge of Embassa. Impressive mountains and wildlife nature with unique views. Opportunity to collect some local herbs. It’s time for cooking lesson from local professional cooks. Participation in the preparation of dishes from pure ingredients and local products.

We proceed to the Lassithi Plateau. Hospitable place with authentic people. Visit to a pottery workshop for the secrets of ceramic art as well as participate in the course for the creation of your own ceramics! Time for a tour of the Plateau and contact with its inhabitants.

Time to enjoy the food we prepared earlier baked in a wood oven in one of the best traditional taverns.

Descending we stop at the picturesque village of Krasi. Its square is dominated by the Fountains and the imposing centuries-old plane trees up to 2000 years old (the oldest in Crete). We end our day with a tour of an olive oil mill and learning how to extract the olive oil. A small taste test will follow!

Having enjoyed a route of beautiful images, we return to your hotel full of unforgettable experiences!

Shepherd’s stop (Off Road)

  • Treat traditional shepherd’s products
  • Goat milking
  • Cheese making
  • Feeding animals
  • Presentation of traditional activities (shepherd’s house, hand mill, loom, etc.)

Olive Oil Mill

  • Guided tour
  • Oilive Oil tasting

Dam of Aposelemis stop

  • Sunken village of Sfentili
  • Photos

Empassa gorge stop (Off Road)

  • Herbs collection
  • Photos in the imposing gorge

Cooking lessons

Ceramics

  • Learn ceramic art

Traditional cafe

  • Stop at a cafe for coffee (optional)\

Food in the restaurant

Stop at the vilalge of Krasi

Included:

✅ Hotel pick-up and drop-off 
✅ Lunch baked in a traditional wood oven
✅ Experienced Guide
✅ Fuels
✅ Civil liability insurance

 

Not Included:

❌ Anything that is not specified as included