Crete Part 4

So we decided that we need to go this beach way on the other side of the island called Elafonisi. It's apparently a 4 hour drive and everyone recommended not driving there and then back again in one day cause there was so much to see and do on the way. We agreed and headed out that morning.

The drive was awesome we stopped at a beach in a town called Skalita on the way for some swimming. We got in trouble from a lifeguard about swimming out too deep in the waves.

Just after we got in trouble.

That killed our good times at that place so we headed on the road again and our next stop was Hania. It was influenced by the Venetians who to took it over at some point so there's a lot of buildings and architecture that looks very similar to Venice, but we had been to Venice and it was a lot prettier so we wandered around a bit took some pictures, had a snack and we were off again down the highway!

Finally we made it to a town called Kissamos where we decided we would stay till the next day when we would head out to the mystical Elafonisi beach. We actually stayed in a really nice hotel, they only had one room left and it was looking out over the beach so, alas, we had to take it!

The beach in front of our hotel in Kissamos

It was cheap too probably cause it was a last minute sale, anyhow that was great, we had drinks at the pub right next to waves that would lap up and almost splash you while you were sitting there.

The restaurant strip in Kissamos where we had some drinky drinky!

The next morning we were off again!! To Elafonisi! Only we made another stop at another beach which was fantastic too! The water was colder than we thought it would be though, but the sand was nice and the sun was out. The only problem was the wind was out too and we were getting sandblasted by it. So we left that wonderful beach and headed for our final destination Elafonisi!!

We were told to take this old windy road there and we did and the drive was beautiful. We reached the peak and there was this little cafe randomly sitting there so we decided icecream was in order.

The Cafe!

We stepped out of the car and I've never seen wind like that! It was so strong I stumbled out of the car and narrowly missed my fingers getting slammed in the door as the wind pushed it closed! But that didn't stop us from having icecream. We ate our icecream and it turned out the owners doggy had puppies so not only did we have icecream we saw puppies!

So after our puppies and icecream back to the road again!

We made it to Elafonisi and it was beautiful but after all the amazing things we saw on the way, it didn't hold up as much. It was quite busy there and the wind was still blowing it's brains out so we stayed for a couple of hours had some good swims and with wind blown sand in places I didn't even know about we headed back to our hotel.

The funny thing is, I don't actually have a picture to do the beach justice either so you'll have to just imagine it.

Again, RENT A CAR in Crete!!