Greek beauty! Escaping to the Far East of Crete!

in #travelfeed6 years ago (edited)

This post is about a beach.
This post is about a plant.
This post is about enjoying nature.
Hard to decide today :)
This post is about all the above, but most of all it is about beauty!

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For those that don't know it, I am living on the east side of Crete, the biggest and most fascinating of the Greek islands :)
And I just came back from a short trip to my favorite beach. It was just for an overnight and only one hour and a half drive from the place I live. But it was so exhilarating and fulfilling as if I had taken a long vacation to a distant exotic destination!

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Crete attracts millions of visitors every year. But most of them are packed to the west or the center of the island and very few to the east. The small curvy roads and the lack of big hotels and tourist facilities discourages the vast majority that crosses the island, from reaching to the east coast. It is a part of Crete almost unspoiled (who knows for how long) with great beauty and amazing scenery!

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On this peaceful part of the island, Xerokampos is the most remote coastal village. "The Far East of Crete" as I like to call it and "krinakia" (meaning lilies in Greek) is my favorite beach. Apart from the fact that it is a gorgeous sandy beach it is also blessed with an amazing plant! Sea daffodil flourishes every fall and when it does I make sure not to miss it!

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This year I was there a little bit late, at the ending of the flourishing period but it didn't mattered at all. The beauty of the flowers, the overwhelming cent during the night and the wonder itself of watching all this growing on the dry sand, it was all there!

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Pancratium maritimum (that's its scientific name) is practically a flower bulb that grows on beaches and sand dunes around the Mediterranean sea and a few more parts of the world. Extremely tolerant to hot and arid climates, sand lily (one more name for the same plant) has survived for thousands of years until the modern concept of tourism stared to invade to its habitat with heavy machinery and all sort of constructions on the sand. Nowadays it is in danger of extinction and can only be found in remote and unspoiled coastlines.

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"Krinakia" beach is one of the few frontiers where you can enjoy the sea, the sun and the natural scenery without any distractions. So if you ever come to this beach, or any other place that sand lilies grow, please be very careful and respectful towards this nature's miracle. Please don't cut it, don't step on it and most definitely don't uproot it! Just enjoy it and be grateful that they are still there!

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these are lovely.

Thank you @torico for the support and for the resteem :)

Sand... lily... So that's what this beautiful thing is. Such a striking contract with the sandy beach, I really like these flower photos :)

Thank you @eonwarped, I am glad you like it!

Thank you for sharing your favourite beach. I enjoy the beauty in your post so much !

Thank you @livvu. I am really glad that you liked it, I love this place :)

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Thank you very much @travelfeed and @rimicane for your support!
Always more than welcome :)

Seen these beautiful flowers now all over the place. We're now in Stavros and are loving it (the home of Zorba) Chania was a bit draining, to say the least.

Wow! You are almost as north-west as it can get, maybe you should spare some time for the south-east :)
Thank you for stopping by!

Our time is basically over on Crete. Mike is leaving for Porto soon and when he's back we go to Valencia. But we will be back.

Wow time flies!
When you come I was sure that I would have made a trip to Chania before you go but it seems to me that it was just last week!
Enjoy your trips and maybe our paths will cross in the future :)

Too bad but we will be back. Not sure where we will end up next year.

Lovely photographs, I must say. Amazing work.

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