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Traveling on your own, without renting a car, organized excursions who has been?
Interested in the route: Eleftherna, Argyroupoli and Ancient Lappa, where there are waterfalls, Lake Kournas, Phaistos or other places that are accessible without renting a car. We will be in Bali, between Heroklion and Rethymno. Dear Greek lovers, I'm waiting for your recommendations!!!
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yes of course it's better. just no driving experience, we usually drive with friends who have experience...
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answered 12 years ago
Well, are there any rights? There is nothing complicated, ordinary roads and especially all those who drive for the first time from the edge of the road along the white stripe. This is in Cyprus at first difficult, left-hand traffic, but still you get used to it almost immediately.
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answered 12 years ago
Regular buses run very well throughout Crete. From Rethymno there is a tourist train, well, wagons on wheels, to Qurna and back. In general, you can travel in Crete in different ways. Convenient by car and public transport.
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answered 12 years ago
we searched almost all of Crete, but by car. in some places (for example, in the village of waterfalls) I can hardly imagine a bus ride. make an itinerary with your agent, rent a car and go. the roads are empty, there are few signs, traffic lights too. one minus - narrow and scary at first. include Matala in your itinerary - an awesome place. Gortyna and Phaistos are essentially historical ruins, spectacular of course, but there is nothing to do there for a long time.
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answered 12 years ago
I rode in Crete for two weeks by car. Minuses:
- narrow roads in cities, markings are not visible. That's why I got into an accident.
- trouble with parking, especially in Chania and Heraklion.
- Greeks drive like drunken monkeys, sorry :-) They drive very badly.
- easy to get lost (we got lost) even with GPS.
- Gasoline shortages due to strikes. This is the same island. They might just not start.
Pros: freedom of movement and accessibility of all places for inspection.
- narrow roads in cities, markings are not visible. That's why I got into an accident.
- trouble with parking, especially in Chania and Heraklion.
- Greeks drive like drunken monkeys, sorry :-) They drive very badly.
- easy to get lost (we got lost) even with GPS.
- Gasoline shortages due to strikes. This is the same island. They might just not start.
Pros: freedom of movement and accessibility of all places for inspection.
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answered 12 years ago
we had a man behind the wheel, maybe that’s why we didn’t experience the difficulties you described. with parking "g" was the current in Rethymno, it seems. we had a map and a route drawn, so there were no wanderings, although a couple of times we checked the way with the locals. about gasoline - here you are probably right, it can be right now. about the ride of the Greeks - I would not say that it is very bad. the main thing is distance and attentiveness) in my opinion, the Turks are more careless)
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answered 12 years ago
Here, without experience it is better not to take a car. Although I have driving experience was 14 years. On that moment. And it’s easy to get lost: on the road from Chania to Rethymnon, we turn off the main road to the right. Just to get off the empty boring road and see the surroundings. We looked .. beautifully, in an hour we find a church made of stone, very beautiful. Vineyards. And how to return? Back - one-strip, forward - a wall, the radar shows either into a rock or into a cliff. And NO ONE :-) There are no signs, as you noted above. Markups too. I had to break and just go back along that one-strip, spin backwards and join the stream .. in my opinion so.
And how we went to Vai .. can not be expressed in words :-)
And how we went to Vai .. can not be expressed in words :-)
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answered 12 years ago
Greek drivers are famous all over Europe. the Turks are like heaven to them. Two examples:
1. They take us from the airport to Rethymno. Three o'clock at night. Road .. you know what. Mountain. Speed 100. The driver holds a mobile phone with TWO HANDS, the knee switches the rear and dipped beam, I didn’t see how I switched speeds, I was sitting in the back :-)
2. We drive along Rethymnon, a steep climb, 60 degrees, very steep, in the middle of the climb, two cars stand opposite each other, occupying the whole road and chatting peacefully. They are driven around on the sidewalk. We stood for more than an hour, we drove back, they all stood :-)
Mindfulness in Crete is the basic rule. Dear narrow, mountainous, scary. Especially after Agios Nicholas. In the city, traffic is not conceivable at all. I am a resident of the metropolis, I drove back in the dashing 90s :-) But I have not seen this. And she also drove a car abroad.
1. They take us from the airport to Rethymno. Three o'clock at night. Road .. you know what. Mountain. Speed 100. The driver holds a mobile phone with TWO HANDS, the knee switches the rear and dipped beam, I didn’t see how I switched speeds, I was sitting in the back :-)
2. We drive along Rethymnon, a steep climb, 60 degrees, very steep, in the middle of the climb, two cars stand opposite each other, occupying the whole road and chatting peacefully. They are driven around on the sidewalk. We stood for more than an hour, we drove back, they all stood :-)
Mindfulness in Crete is the basic rule. Dear narrow, mountainous, scary. Especially after Agios Nicholas. In the city, traffic is not conceivable at all. I am a resident of the metropolis, I drove back in the dashing 90s :-) But I have not seen this. And she also drove a car abroad.
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answered 12 years ago
This is the 9th trip to Crete, Matala, Gortyna, and Akrotiri, etc., was especially impressed. you can’t drive up to the waterfalls on a regular bus, but maybe it’s not 20 km on foot ..?) I agree with the roads, but there is no driving experience. Responsible. especially with gasoline interruptions, as they say: we swam, we know.
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answered 12 years ago
Well, apparently we didn’t check out all the horrors, because we traveled mainly along the highways))) only passing through the cities) but we weren’t in Chania - it was too far to go from Malia.
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answered 12 years ago
Chania is a beauty, in my opinion, the best. I am telling you as an assistant to the navigator). After the ascents and descents on Santorini, the Cretan roads are not terrible:) and attentiveness is the main thing, of course, it is needed everywhere.
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answered 12 years ago
Viltis, tell me, please, where do the trains from Rethymnon to Kournas depart from?
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answered 12 years ago
Do you know where the port is? This is where the port begins, where the boat to Santorini, there is a small square, restaurants, leather shops. There.
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answered 12 years ago
He walks all over Rethymnon, then leaves the city and scratches up to Qurna. This is a sightseeing train, it costs like an excursion. Tours are in English only. But everything is clear.
There is also a bus. He walks along the third street, if you count from the sea. Stops are frequent. Well, you saw them, there are enough of them.
There is also a bus. He walks along the third street, if you count from the sea. Stops are frequent. Well, you saw them, there are enough of them.
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answered 12 years ago
Let me give you a personal forum for independent travelers?
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answered 12 years ago
About the Greek drivers, I don’t know where you found them .. We were 2 weeks in Crete and didn’t see A SINGLE accident.
You will pass us in the morning, so you will definitely see 2 ...
You will pass us in the morning, so you will definitely see 2 ...
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answered 12 years ago
Viltis, please reset the link to the forum for me too!
Thank you in advance!
Thank you in advance!
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answered 12 years ago
I'm also interested in the link.
Rested in Malia this year. In these parts, it was on the bus that I rode around the neighborhood.
And you can also join the one who drives - and travel around the sights together.
Rested in Malia this year. In these parts, it was on the bus that I rode around the neighborhood.
And you can also join the one who drives - and travel around the sights together.
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answered 12 years ago
