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
The Katharo Plateau sits high in the Dikti mountains of eastern Crete, a remote plain of stone huts, vineyards and orchards far above the everyday coast. It lies in the Lasithi district, around eleven hundred metres above sea level, reached by a steep, winding road up from the village of Kritsa near Agios Nikolaos. Farmers … Read more
Askyfou is a fertile mountain plateau high in the White Mountains, in the Sfakia region of western Crete, at around seven hundred metres above sea level. The basin sits within the Chania district, ringed by peaks and cooled by highland air even at the height of summer. The main road from Vryses down to the … Read more