Drive Tour Crete - Best of Chania

Meet and greet your Licensed tour Guide and your driver with vehicle at the meeting point of yours. (Note :

This tour starts from Chania district - Hotel, Chania (Souda) port or Chania airport).

The Private Guided Chania or Hania tour, an opportunity to explore the city of Chania with all your senses!

With your Private Guide will walk this beautiful city, the guided tour on foot of the City of Chaniá is about one and a half hour. The city is set around a beautiful Port and has given us evidence of human residency as far back as 5.000BC! Here from Neolithic, to Minoan times, to traces of Alexander the Great, to Roman Era, Byzantine and Crusaders to Ottoman are visited.

Here one realizes what might have been just a hint earlier that Crete was the Crossroad of people and Civilizations. The Venetian Bastions, Covered Market, old Venetian Port, Ship Yards, Cathedrals, Churches, synagogue and Old Mosque, lovely shops and local tavernas!

A touch of Venice kissed by the Levantine.

Next, the British Commonwealth War Cemetery, which lies three miles to the east of Chania on a small plateau, just above sea level on the eastern rim of Souda Bay. It is the last resting place of 1,527 of the known 2,000 British Commonwealth war dead. The majority of who lost their lives in the Battle of Crete between the Allied and German forces for control of Crete between the dates of May 20 – 31, 1941. A stop for photos will be made.

Your tour continues to Ag. Triada Monastery (Holy Trinity) of Jagarolon, which is one of the most significant monastic complexes from the end of the Venetian Occupation of Crete. It contains a rich offering to the history and education of Crete.

Discover in the east suburbs of Chania on the hill of Profiti Elia (Prophet Elijah) Venizelos Tombs where are buried one of the most significant politicians of modern Greece, Eleftherios and his son Sofoklis Venizelos.