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Example Schedule
8 days programme
- The whole programme will be
accompanied by Just a Coach
- The tours will professionally
be guided by Michael Dirksen
- The accommodation is
situated in the Myli Gorge
21 -
28 october 2001
Day 1
Arrival
- Pick-up at airport
- Settle in Myli
Gorge
- Introduction
- Coaching/training
part 1
Day 2
Sailing tour to Akrotiri /Katholiko
- Coaching/training
part 2
- Transport to
Rethimno port
- Sail to Bay of
Kefalas (swim and snorkel and collect fish)
- Sail to exit of
Katholiko Canyon
- Hike to monastery
of Katholiko
- Sail back to port
of Marathi
- Cast anker
- Relaxation,
swimming, later fish BBQ
- Stay overnight on
boat
- Coaching/training
part
 Photo
M. Dirksen
Day 3
Mountain bike
to lake Kournas
- Coaching/training
part 4
- Minibus pick-up at
Marathi
- Transport to
Profitis Ilias, lookout down to Chaniá
- Browse around the
city of Chaniá, market hall, port, 2 hours
- Transport to
starting point of mountainbike tour: near Kefalas
- Bike via
Georgopoulos to Lake Kournas
- Transport from lake
Kournas to Myli Gorge
- Coaching/training
part 5
 Photo
M. Dirksen
Day 4 Hiking tour to Loutro
- Coaching/training
part 6
- Transport from
Myli via Askifou and Chora Sfakion to Aredena
- Walk through
Aradena Gorge to Loutro
- Take boat to Chora
Sfakion or walk
- Transport from
Chora Sfakion to Myli
- Coaching/training
part 7
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 Photo
M. Dirksen
Day 5
Hike ‘n Cook at Somatas
- Coaching/training
part 8
- Walk from Myli to
Mount Vrissinas
- Walk to village of
Somatas
- Collect herbs and
spices on the way
- Cook at Stella’s
- Traditional Cretan
dinner with Cretan music
- Transport from
Stella’s to Myli resort
- Coaching/training
part 9
 Photo
M. Dirksen
Day 6
Free Painting at Myli Gorge
- Coaching/training
part 10
- Care for Myli Gorge
while walking through
- Free painting in
Myli resort
- Coaching/training
part 11
 Photo
M. Dirksen
Day 7
Mountain bike tour Arkadi / Margarites
- Coaching/training
part 12
- Bike from Myli
resort up to Arkadi (with several stops)
- From Arkadi to
- Elefterna
- Orthes
- Margarites (collect
souvenirs) eat here (salad etc.)
- Bike to Angelliana
- Off road to Prinos
- Pick up at
Magnisia, transport to Myli resort
- Coaching/training
part 13
Day 8
Departure
- Coaching/training
part 14
- Acknowledgements
and closing
- Transfer to
Heraklion Airport
General
information
- Refining of
the programmes will be based on an inquery taken
by every individual
- Other elements in
the programme are possible on request
- We advice a follow-up
within 8 months
- Programme includes: transfer/transport/materials/breakfast
and dinner/accommodation/flight and airport tax
Your
Guide
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After years in the
Cretan tourism business I'm now going to follow a suggestion that
many of my guests have made, to organize individual excursions to
lesser known parts of the island in springtime and autumn. I'm
thinking about congenial people who want to experience new paths in
a different way, also diversity and fun which can be found in
smaller groups. Let's try to find the "heart of Crete"
together! |
| My first stay on Crete
in 1965 was followed by reiterations, finally resulting in an
"acute island fever", also known as "virus creticus".
So I migrated to the island in 1984. There is however no recovery in
sight. |
| During various
excursions on the island I improved my knowledge about the local
plant life, fauna, and the geology. Shepherds and village people are
among my best friends and informants. |
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| For more than half of my
17 years stay on the largest Greek island I have been busy guiding
walks, trekking tours and bus excursions, and on the side picked up
more than 100,000 kms with my enduro. Knowledge of the
Greek language, especially of the Cretan dialect, has opened many
doors to the Cretan people and helped me understand their habits and
traditions as well as their cultural peculiarities. |
| It will be my pleasure
to share this knowledge about Crete and its people with you. |
| Michael Andreas Dirksen |
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