Crete

5 More Amazing Crete Gorges Nature Lovers Must Trek

Phil Butler

Crete is an unbelievable landscape cut by canyons and gorges for millions of years. The topography of the island is unique in that these rifts in the bedrock of the island form create hundreds of individual pockets of natural bounty. The island is even called the “land of gorges” since more than 400 canyons carve […]

5 years ago

Hidden Crete: Secrets of the Gorge of Saints and Agiofarago

Phil Butler

Agiofarago Gorge, is an amazing canyon in the south of Heraklion Prefecture tourists who visit the island paradise seldom know exists.

5 years ago

It’s Christmas and the Season for Loukoumades on Crete

Mihaela Lica Butler

It’s the season on Crete for commemorative Saint Days and traditional Loukoumades, puffs of sweet joy for young and old.

5 years ago

19 More Instagram Reasons for Loving Crete Island

Phil Butler

Crete Island. If you’ve been here, you want to come back. Maybe forever, like me. Friends ask me all the time “Why Crete?” Well, for a South Carolina sandlapper of the 60s like me, there are 1000 reasons. I tend to share a lot of them here on Argo Travel News. Today, I thought some […]

5 years ago

Cities on Volcanoes 11 Conference Comes to Heraklion May 2020

Phil Butler

Coming up May 23rd through 27th of 2020, the Cities on Volcanoes 11 brings the world’s top volcanologists to Greece for the first time. The conferences and workshops of “Volcanoes and Society: environment, health, and hazards” will welcome many of the world’s foremost experts to Heraklion, Crete. Organized by the International Association of Volcanology Cities, […]

5 years ago

Possible Forgotten El Greco Masterpiece Discovered In a Church on Crete

Phil Butler

A religious icon in a small church outside Chania is believed to be an early work of master painter El Greco.

5 years ago

The Best Crete Hotels For Business Travelers In 2020

Phil Butler

While doing business on Crete can be tough with so many distractions, we know this selection of the island’s best will help 2020 . travelers

5 years ago

The Coming Crete 2020 Season Is Shaping Up Amazingly – Really

Phil Butler

Next year promises amazing adventures for shaping up and soothing out in the great outdoors of Crete Island.

5 years ago

Hidden Crete: Almiros Gorge

Phil Butler

Travelers visiting Crete and her capital in Heraklion never get to experience many of the hidden gems just off the beaten path. Almiros Gorge, a few hundred meters from the beach at Amoudara, is one such treasure of hidden Crete. I took a short trip there with my best pal Minas, earlier this morning. Here’s […]

5 years ago