Cretan Beaches
Balos Lagoon
Cameras compulsory. Ranked from CNN travel and Tripadvisor among the best beaches of the world. Near Kissamos on Crete, Balos Beach is a lagoon of swirling colors — pastel pinks, blues and turquoise. Around 50 km away from Marathi.
You can visit Balos Lagoon by car (there you can find 10 km of rusty road) or by boat from Kissamos port. Don’ t miss it!
Elafonisi Beach
TripAdvisor, the largest travel platform in the world, released its lists of the best beaches on the planet for 2017, based on the results of the Travellers’ Choice awards.
According to those results, Elafonisi was ranked in the 9th position of the best beaches in the world, and owns the 2nd position in Europe for 2017.
In the same ranking tables, Balos was ranked 7th among the best European beaches.
Elafonisi is 55 km away from Chania, in the southwestern of Crete. You can drive easily by car and enjoy one of the best beaches in the world!
Falasarna Beach
Best thing about the sand at Falassarna? There’s so much of it there’s little chance of playing beach-mat overlap with strangers.
This slice of coast takes in five consecutive beaches, the middle ones being most popular, the ones on the ends better for solitary sun lovers.
Falasarna is seting at the west of Crete, 58 km away from Marathi Beach, 50 minutes driving by car. CNN Travel ranked Falasarna for 2018 among the 100 best beaches in the world!
