• Region: Rethymno
  • Duration: half day
  • Concept: cognitive, food tour, traditional
  • Tour days: daily
  • Travel style: escorted coach touring
  • Places visited: Traditional villages of Crete, Olive mill, Distillery, Bakery, Creamery, Traditional “Kafenio” for lunch

This will be a completely different experience for you and your friends or family. At first, you will discover the less-touristy and more traditional areas. Let’s meet the local producers and taste the main delicacies of Crete. We are going to spend a day full of tastings and beautiful landscapes.

Tour highlights:

  • Take a look at the traditions in the villages of Crete.
  • Meet the local producers by visiting small family businesses.
  • Taste the Cretan bouquet of famous products: olive oil, raki, honey, cheese, and a lot of other local delicacies.
  • Add new flavors to your flavor palette!
  • Learn more about the secrets of Cretan products.
  • Get the analytical descriptions of good production.
  • Visit a local olive mill, a distillery, a bakery, and a creamery.
  • Experience lunch at a traditional “Kafeneio”.
  • Discover the Cretan features of life through history and culture.
  • Spend a day full of tastings and beautiful landscapes.

How to prepare:

  • Comfortable clothing and walking shoes
  • Sun hat
  • Sunscreens
  • Cash and credit card for extra costs and personal expenses

*In case of pregnancy, any health issues, or disability please contact us to reconfirm if this tour is suitable for you.

Cancellation policy:

  • 24 hours or less: no refund
  • 48 hours or less: 50% cancellation fee
  • 96 hours or less: 25% cancellation fee
  • 96+ hours: full refund

8 AM:

Our guide will pick you up at the gate of your hotel.

*You must wear comfortable clothes and shoes, a hat, and put on sunscreen (use on all parts of your skin exposed to the sun, including the ears, back, shoulders, and the back of the knees and legs). Among your personal belongings you will have with you on tour, please have cash for paying your expenses (some shops do not accept credit cards).

We begin by observing the olive oil production process and learning the secrets of the highest-quality extra virgin olive oil. Analytical descriptions will explain the whole process of olive oil production, from harvest to consumption.

Moving forward, you will check out Raki production, the most famous Cretan spirit, by visiting a local distillery in a traditional village. No doubt the tasting will follow.

The next stop is a bakery, where you will taste the local bread, cookies, and biscuits.

Our gastronomic journey continues in a traditional cheese factory. You will discover the names of the local cheeses and their features. After explaining each cheese’s production, you will also taste them along with local honey. Cretan cheeses will not disappoint even the most discerning gourmet.

It’s lunchtime, therefore, you will experience Greek meze dining—a variety of small-plate meals shared in the middle of the table with family and friends.

Knowledge of traditions through food and a variety of taste sensations always please our guests.

After all, what could be better than gathering around the table with friends and family?

3 PM:

Boarding the coach for departure to the hotel.

  • Pick up and return to your hotel
  • Transfer by comfortable coach
  • Water in the coach
  • Guide accompanying
  • Tasting of the Cretan famous local products (olive oil, raki, honey, cheese, and other local delicacies)
  • Lunch at the traditional “Kafenio”
  • Souvenirs & purchase of local products (optional)

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