This place is kind of lost in time and feels as remote as it gets on Crete. This island is quite populated and visited by millions of tourists, but if you want to stay in the middle of [beautiful] nowhere, camp here for a night or two.
I don’t even know what this place is called: if you look at Google maps, it says ‘Kefalovrisi’ above this spot, but this name is not mentioned anywhere else. We got an idea to visit it, because we read it was one of only a handful of places with natural palm tree growth in Crete (and in Greece, and actually Europe overall). Cretan date palm is only one of the two palm species native to European continent (the other one being dwarf fan palm that I saw near Sitges). There is a couple of bigger palm forests in Crete, but they seem…
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