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Havgas Gorge: Crete’s Narrow Canyon Below the Katharo Plateau

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Havgas Gorge: Crete's Narrow Canyon Below the Katharo Plateau

Havgas Gorge is one of the wildest short canyons in eastern Crete, a dark slot cut into the eastern flank of the Dikti mountains in the Lasithi district. Water draining from the Katharo plateau above Kritsa has sliced a sheer channel barely a metre or two wide, broken by waterfalls, deep pools and jammed boulders. … Read more

Ha Gorge: Crete’s Sheer Canyoning Ravine in the Thripti Mountains

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Ha Gorge: Crete's Sheer Canyoning Ravine in the Thripti Mountains

Ha Gorge, known locally as Faragi Ha, slices the western face of the Thripti mountains above the Ierapetra plain in eastern Crete. Its huge dark cleft is visible for kilometres across the plain. The gorge is a near-vertical slot, barely a couple of metres wide in places. A chain of waterfalls and deep pools breaks … Read more