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Gorge: Overhanging rock face in the Lissos Gorge. © Rolf GoetzPhoto: Rolf Goetz, Rother Bergverlag
The hike to Lissos offers everything that makes for a top-notch tour in Crete: a wildly romantic gorge lined with oleander bushes, a high plateau with panoramic coastal views, and the archaeological site of ancient Lissos, uncovered in the 1950s. This secluded valley was once home to an early Hellenistic spa, which was later operated by the Romans. The Byzantines, too, left their mark on this place, which to this day can only be reached on foot or by boat. Oh, and there’s also a swimming cove with a pebble beach.
We start the tour in Sougia at the Galini tavern and the Lotos Café and walk west along the coastal road by the pebble beach. Before reaching the ferry dock at the harbor, we turn right and walk past the fishing boats. Behind a large rock just before the cliffs, we find the entrance to the Lissos Gorge next to a goat pen. After about 50 meters, we’ll need to scramble over a smooth, polished rock; further along, we’ll have to go around several large boulders and narrow passages. However, the path through the gorge is always easy to walk. A good five minutes after passing through a narrow passage between overhanging rock walls, we reach a fork. Here, we leave the gorge to the left onto a mule trail (yellow-and-black trail markers), which zigzags upward to the upper edge of the gorge (if you continued straight through the gorge bed, you’d return to Sougia via a marked loop trail). On the Kandouni plateau, the reddish-brown trail now winds through easy-to-navigate hedgehog-puff vegetation,
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Rolf Goetz
Der gebürtige Schwarzwälder wandert bevorzugt auf Inseln, wo sich die Arbeit mit ein paar erholsamen Strandtagen kombinieren lässt. Neben Mallorca, Kreta und Zypern ist er auch auf Madeira, den Kanaren und anderen vom Wetter begünstigten Sonnenzielen unterwegs, im Sommer auch gerne auf Rügen und Hiddensee. Unterwegs begeistert ihn, was am Wegrand so alles blüht und wächst, angefangen von der alljährlich aufs Neue faszinierenden Mandelblüte bis hin zum tausendjährigen Olivenbaum. Außer Wanderführern sind von Rolf Goetz auch botanische Bestimmungsbücher zu der einen oder anderen seiner Lieblingsinseln erschienen. Der Autor lebt heute als freiberuflicher Reisejournalist in Berlin.
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