Nida Plateau: Crete’s High Shepherd Plain on Psiloritis
The Nida Plateau is a treeless high basin on the eastern flank of Psiloritis, the tallest mountain of Crete, in the Rethymno district above the village of Anogeia. It sits at around fourteen hundred metres, a flat plain ringed by bare peaks and grazed by sheep through the warm months. Round stone shepherds’ huts called … Read more