Trip Info
Experience how Cretans really live.
Arhanes, Crete: where the Experience will take place
Yiannis Ntourakis is your host for the whole cultural immersion experience.
Yiannis has a degree in Agriculture, lives in a farmhouse in Arhanes, Crete, loves farming and local land cultivation and is proud of the Cretan way of life.
- Place of origin: Crete
- Lives in: Arhanes, Crete
- Speaks: English
- Loves: gardening, nature, playing traditional Cretan music
- Has travelled to: all over Greece
- Personal traits: optimist towards life, hospitable, sociable
Here’s how we’ll spend the day and what we’ll do together.
This Experience is offered in TWO versions: Standard Pack and Deluxe Pack.
Deluxe Pack
1. Oil, wine and raki makers
An insider’s walk-around will be offered, covering visits to traditional hot-spots like vineyards, olive groves, winemakers, oil mills, raki boilers and more. First-hand experience will be acquired on actual life and work in these premises.
2. Walk-around in Crete
The visitor will have a chance to view places of exquisite beauty around Arhanes, Crete, including walks in nature, collecting local aromatic herbs, visiting small Byzantine chapels, local monasteries, small picturesque villages that have stood the passage of time, old churches, local cafés, archaeological hot-spots and workshops where traditional Cretan craftsmen practice.
3. Warm family get-together
A warm family atmosphere will make the guests feel at home. Cretan hospitality includes cooking traditional cretan food and delis and enjoying lively chit-chat with the accompanying support of traditional Cretan music instruments. The visit will end up with a traditional coffee at a local café, amongst the locals.
Standard Pack
1. Oil, wine and raki makers
An insider’s walk-around will be offered, covering visits to traditional hot-spots like vineyards, olive groves, winemakers, oil mills, raki boilers etc. First-hand experience will be acquired on actual life and work in these premises.
2. Walk-around in Crete
The visitor will explore places of exquisite beauty around Arhanes, Crete, collect local aromatic herbs, discover small Byzantine chapels and picturesque villages that have stood the passage of time, and visit local cafés and workshops where traditional cretan craftsmen practice.
3. Warm family get-together
A warm family atmosphere will make the guests feel at home. Cretan hospitality includes sampling traditional cretan delis and enjoying lively chit-chat with the accompanying support of traditional cretan music instruments.
- Standard Pack – Duration: 4 hours
Timetable: 10.00-14.00
Price: 50 euros per person
Group size: 4 persons max
- Deluxe Pack – Duration: 8 hours
Timetable: 10.00-18.00
Price: 100 euros per person
Group size: 8 persons max
NOTE: “At a Glance Trip Highlights” mentioned hereby, refer predominantly to the Deluxe Pack
