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 Pano Gouves Church
 Only a short
walk for Pano Gouves the centre cathedral is a splendid way to pass the afternoon with a walk up to the old village.
The priest opens the doors at 4.pm to 6.pm come inside to discover the painted frescos and icons.
All you need to do is buy a candle by making a donation and light it to bring you good luck.
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Easter
Saturday in Holy Week the ceremony of the resurrection takes place in the courtyard in front of all churches and bells are rung all over the towns and cities.
Candles are lit one from the other and then the people make their way home for the traditional feast of dyed red Easter eggs and Mageritsa soup.
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Waterpark
A humid, aquatic world that unfolds in front of you... It is the unique Water City. The most entertaining and wild aquatic park in Europe, which offers pure amusement, with 34 water games of adrenaline, that will make you gasp incredibly.
We are waiting for you, for a unique trial of your adrenaline, amusement and your resistance, at one of the biggest and wildest parks in Europe.
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Cretan Folklore Festival
Cretan village culture
Folklore Festival celebrating all the aspects that make up Cretan life. The
Cretan night at Anapolis a
traditional night out in the village. The village Folklore Festival is in the open feeling the still warm night air.
An open buffet meal with local village wine starts the evening complimented with a live traditional
Cretan dance festival showing off the cultural dancing on Crete, on nightly.
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Skotino Cave
The famous cave of Skotino is located just above the village of Pano Gouves.
Guests can visit the small church next to the cave before entering, the underground world.
The cave has a path that leads you to the bottom, great for taking photos lots of fun for the kids to explore this cave.
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Happy Train
The happy train is the best way to see the resorts. Train stops are all along the resorts of Gouves Gournes Kokkini Hani.
There are train stops all along the route, just look for the time tables and stops and wait, the train shall be along to pick you up the tour last for around 40 minutes.
Have fun enjoy the beaches and views of the resorts.
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Funfairs
Gouves resorts host many children's mini fun fairs located all along the resorts. Families can relax in restaurants or kafeneon and let the kids have all the fun in the world.
All the play equipment is CE standards so your kids are safe in resort. Most restaurants cater for children's meals.
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Creta Aquarium
Crete Aquarium is where your experience exploring the Mediterranean sea world begins. Come face to face with hundreds of species and thousands of living organisms.
Be fascinated by their behaviour as they reveal the wide variety of shapes, colors, habits and needs of their own world.
Learn about them and reflect on what our common future may be open daily.
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Knossos
A day out in Heraklion lunch in a
traditional market taverna serving organic freshly made Cretan cuisine.
Continuing with a guided tour of the History Museum, Natural History Museum viewing the islands archaeological finds.
Continuing with a history drive to Knossos the birthplace of civilization from
the Minoan period including a guided tour of the archaeological site open daily.
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Horse Riding
A day out in the
mountains. Horse riding in the sun. Finikia is one of the oldest riding
stables on Crete. A full day enjoying the freedom of the old
riding paths on Crete.
If a family member does not wish to ride than guests can travel the route in the horse and wagon an afternoon BBQ back at the
stables completes the day, trips daily.
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Scuba Diving
This scuba diving courses suitable for beginners 1 day course is suitable for individual couples
family lessons.
Theoretic classroom lessons on the beach. Instruction swimming pool dive
after passing the course lessons.
Sea dives under the professional dive master team supervision to a depth of 12
meters. Summer tour daily.
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Village Festival
This is a true feel of Crete
each year around Crete
the villagers prepare a village festival to celebrate the villages names day or the Churches names day.
The entire village participates in the event. The festival starts around 9
pm
and goes into the very early hours of the morning on the 7th September. The festival in
complimented by a traditional village Cretan meal.
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Beaches
The Municipality has a long coastline Karteros Amnissos offers all the different types of beaches that you maybe looking for. We have snorkeling beaches for you to explore the Cretan sea, family and child friendly beaches with a lifeguard service. We have shingle beaches and quiet beach locations for you to get away from it all. Guests can hop on the bus travel to each resort to relax on the beaches try them all.
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Jeep Safari
There are many Jeep Safaris one is to the Idon Adron (Ida Mountains), central Crete.
Visiting Anogia hand glass works,including lunch in Anogia after lunch, tour through the mountain regions of Anogia.
At the national Geo Park Zeus cave Crete observatory from the mountain peak in clear weather
Santorini can be seen daily tours.
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Saint John Theologos
The Monastery of Saint John Theologos
is found near the village
of
Anoplios. The
monastery is noted for the trees surrounding the monastery
land.
During the Turkish occupation, a "secret school" was founded in the monastery, which
was also a hide out for rebel fighters. The monastery is located next to the village of Anopolis, open daily.
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Gouves Wetlands
The Gouves wetland is located on the
north of the island of
Crete
20 minutes from the capital
airport of
Heraklion. The Wetlands are fed by the
Aposelemos River
located South of the wetland.
The water is blocked by a sand bar before it reaches the
Cretan
Sea, creating a natural inland wetland. Many bird spices visit the wetlands.
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Best Of The West Tour
City tours old capital of Crete Chania. This
Venetian Port was a trading post from the Roman
times. The architecture and shops are a delight to visit. The monastery of
Arkadi is one of the oldest on the island.
Village of Fodela the birthplace of El Greco the tour
concludes with a stop and tour of the fishing harbor and a shopping trip in
Rethymnon, tours daily.
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Spinalonga
Spinalonga the last Leper
village was located in Greece. Agios Nikolas where the boat collects guests, and carries
them over to the island, the boat passes over the sunken city of Olous dating back 4000 years.
Gulf of Elounda we can swim
snorkel with the fish. BBQ on the boat cooked by the
captains crew. Touring around to the island where the Venetian fortress was
built in 1579 tours daily.
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Meagaron Minoan Kokkini Hani
The
archeological Minoan Megaron site is within easy walking distance from all the
resorts accommodation. The dwelling house was built to two storey high, built of large ashlars stones.
The timber-framed paneling to the wall were covered with an insulation layer of plaster and marble cladding. The building is particularly
noted for the paved courtyard, a worshiping shrine, open daily.
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Spring Flowers
Crete’s unique climate some refer to Crete as the wonder of the
islands ''botanical life.’’ The climate and the existence of large mountain
massifs, function all within the island, greatly explains the degree of
endemism the islands plant species, this fact is supported by 1 in 10 plant
species which are indigenous to Crete. This Greek island boasts an indigenous
population of plant life of a reported 1,500 to 1,800 varied species.
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Samaria Gorge
The gorge became a national park in 1962, particularly as a refuge for the rare kri-kri (Cretan goat), which is largely restricted to the park and an island just off the shore of Agia Marina.
There are several other endemic species in the gorge and surrounding area, as well as many other species of flowers and birds.
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Gouves Watersports
All along the coast you can find watersports activities
for you to enjoy on holidays in Karteros. The famous Cretan breezes provide
excellent windsurfing and kite boarding in good weather conditions. Jet skies
area the coast guard has issued safe
areas for jet skies that are clearly marked with buoys to keep swimmers safe
along the beaches of Karteros. Banana boat rides paragliding are
all catered for by the specialist companies.
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Crete Golf Club
The Bob Hunt masterpiece, is best described as a desert golf
course created out of rolling landscape little more than half an hour from
the international airport of Heraklion. It boasts a series of memorable
holes that will test every aspect of a golfer's repertoire and offers
stunning views over mountainous landscape that has hardly changed since
the Minoan era back in 2600 to 1100 BC open daily.
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Dia Island Boat Trip
Enjoy a full day of fun in turquoise water quiet sandy beaches of Dia island. Welcome aboard drink and snack. During the sail we can sometimes see dolphins swimming alongside the boat. Anchor in a lonely bay to swim and snorkel. BBQ lunch sail to the bay of Panagia and try one of our watersports program.
On the way back you can relax and sunbath on deck and enjoy the sailing while having some fruits and raki, tours daily.
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Gouves Exhibition Centre
Commercial exhibitions but also exciting
exhibitions that can really capture the imagination as well as being
educational. The International Exhibition Centre promotes Cretan
produce. Exhibitors in cooperation with the business sector offers businesses
to come and exhibit their products and services to utilise the total
infrastructure of the exhibition halls, that many tourists find to be very interesting.
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Music Festivals
Municipality of Gouves Hosts many famous Greek singers playing on the Municipality beach stage.
The festivals are played in the open air
giving a true feel to Greek and Cretan music under the night air skies.
All guest staying in
the resorts are welcome to come along.
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Municipality Gouves Tavernas
The most enjoyable time is to share
your holiday experience with the taverna owners themselves. Seating in a beach restaurant or village taverna these are the most memorable times on holiday.
The entire restaurants provides a wide
and varied cuisine for all to enjoy especially the children.
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Municipality Gouves Bars
We have so many different bars all along the Municipality hosting live music traditional Cretan Greek music theme bars. Some bar cover live sports coverage karaoke quiz nights all to entertain you.
Nightlife in the resorts can be lively or if you just wish for a quite relaxing drink then we have all the bars that you are looking for.
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