Panorama Photo

Agiofarago, the «Holy Gorge», because it lies on the territory of the Odigitria Monastery (see N.16118). From the end of a gravel road you walk for 20 min inside the gorge to a wonderful, isolated beach. Few hundreds of meter before, the church of Agios Antonios greets you along the path. Close to the church lies a well, which supplies the only water available within several kms.
Here I slept on the beach, together with several local groups of weekend tourists. The following day I swam to the Martsalo beach, more conventionally accessible by foot passing through the stunning Martsalo Monastery, carved in the rock within a scenario closely reminiscent of Cappadocia. Few days later I was to reach by foot the "unreachable" Cape Trachili, the southernmost point of continental Crete, from where I swan again to Martsalo beach, thus completing the exploration of this unknown corner of Crete, where a 400 m high mountain plunges into the sea with vertical walls full of pictoresque caves.

Two rows of 11 HF each, Canon G1X, 28 mm equiv, ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/125 sec.