In this excursion you have the opportunity to meet Heraklion, the capital of Crete and the biggest city of the island. For about 4 hours you can explore the streets of Heraklion and walk in the old town. You can make your shopping in the vast array of shops, browse through the vegetable market or go sightseeing at the venetian harbor with its many fishing boats. In all cases you'll enjoy yourselves.

Subsequently, we visit the great palace of Knossos, where you can explore it for about two hours for free, see the ruins of the old city and imagine how it was someday.

Imagine going to Paris without looking at the Eiffel tower. Compares to coming to Crete and not visiting Knossos.

This is where European civilization began, an era ruled by powerful King Minos, a place full of myths and legends, (think Theseus, the Minotaur and the Labyrinth). The layout of the palace was so complicated, the courtiers needed a plan to move through it. Flourishing between 3,000BC and 1400BC, it strangely disappeared, only to be discovered again by the English archeologist Sir Arthur Evans at the turn of the century. Now partly reconstructed, blood red columns and gigantic double-headed axes are a vivid reminder of this forgotten and disappeared race.

A day giving an intriguing glimpse of the lives of both the old and the new civilizations of Crete.