Away from the hubub and mass tourist market, the small town of Plakias lends itself to hiking the mountain paths and wonderful cliff walks during the day and relaxing in the pleasant seaside atmosphere in the evening.

Budget travellers can stay at the Plakias Youth Hostel run by amiable manager Chris, while the more well heeled can rent a small apartment for a few more Euros.

Plakias, Crete
For the youth hostel www.yhplakias.com
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I have discovered a website with fantastic maps of Crete includes maps from all the regions of the island.

www.in2greece.com/mappages/crete/aallcrete.htm
www.in2greece.com/mappages/crete/chanion.htm
www.in2greece.com/mappages/crete/lasithiou.htm
www.in2greece.com/english/maps/maps.htm

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High above Crete's Lasithi Plateau is this extraordinary late Minoan site, slung across a strategic mountain pass with views to the sea below. It's a steep 30-minute walk up from the nearest road - though when I visited, I saw a man shepherding his goats on the plain below from inside his 4x4. The site was excavated by John Pendlebury, the archaeologist, whose grave you can see at the Allied War Cemetery at Soudha Bay.

Near Tzermiado village, Lasithi, Crete;

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