Mountain · Chania, Crete, Greece

Samaria Gorge

Sixteen kilometres downhill through the White Mountains to a village with no road out.

Samaria Gorge is in Chania, Crete, and this is Chania, Crete — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 950 km across and 340 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 6–7 hours · Summer only · 35.290°N, 23.958°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Ferries are the network: fast catamarans and slow open-deck boats, both booked online and both cancelled by wind. All of Greece →

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Chania, Crete · The Islands · Greece

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What happens here

Experiences tied to this place, and how each one is tied to it — standing on it, starting from it, or looking at it.

Down the Samaria gorge

Sixteen kilometres, one direction only, ending at a boat because there is no road out. Open May to October.

Happens here

Other places in Chania, Crete

Venetian Harbour

A curved quay, a lighthouse rebuilt by Egyptians in the 1830s, and a mosque at the near end.

Monument

The record

What this atlas holds about Samaria Gorge, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Mountain
Give it: 6–7 hours
Season: Summer only
Where: 35.290°N, 23.958°E
In: Chania, Crete