This holiday apartment in Crete is a small, three-apartment complex consisting of studios with a kitchenette and apartments with a kitchen, built exactly right on the top of the amphitheatrical, fertile valley of Kato Zakros. It is situated at a conspicuous location, overlooking the sea high above the tops of the olive trees, which grow lower at the valley.
Outside every apartment, there is a wooden canopy and comfortable seats- “rustic”-style- while all the interior and exterior decoration is a hymn to the Cretan tradition
The interior as well as the exterior of the apartments are covered with sedimentary rock and on the stone tiles appear interesting fossils of sea-shells, limpets and various shellfish which tell the long and adventurous geological history of the region.
The ceilings as well as the furniture are wooden, while the beds are either made of stone or of a combination of wood and stone. The interior decoration is full of elements from the Cretan culture and follows the austere tradition of the region.
There is a shower or a bath in every apartment and hot water is provided round the clock. As for the water, there will be no need to buy any bottled one, as one of the best (perhaps THE best) water of Crete, coming straight from the zakros source, is running through the tap.
The sea-shore is 500metres away, quite close for someone to enjoy its scents and glare under the sunlight and far enough to make every “civilized” sound coming from the visitor's cars, fade away.
But whatever one says, it is impossible to give even a glimpse of the atmosphere you will find here.
It is the feeling of an escape from civilization; it is the scent that rises from the Cretan soil; it is the color of tradition and of simplicity one will find here; it is the music deriving from nature’s sounds in an immaculate environment; it is the tastes of the local products, varying from fish, vegetables and meat to wine, fruit and “raki”; these are the things that cannot be captured by any camera-lance.
| Walking Distances | |
| Beach | 8 mins |
| Shops | 50 mins |
| Driving Distances | |
| Beach | 3 mins |
| Shops | 15 mins |
| Dates: 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2008 | |
| Price per Apartment per Night | |
| €-40.00 | |
This page was last updated on 14 January 2008
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