Climbing in Crète
Crète is a famous island, well known for his beaches and parties. The is much more to do. We find great crags in many places of the Island. Some crags are located a few meters form the sea.
The equipment is most of the time good (HCR) and sometimes loose... You need to take care of corrosion near the sea. Our favorites places during this trip were : tersana cave : a huge cave above the sea with thousands of concretions allowing to climb in this huge roof. This place is unfortunatly subject to corrosion and must be rebolted with HCR equipment. Malia is an amazing slab with hidden holds. Each root seems impossible!
Volismeno Aloni, near the horrible Heraklion, is a circular sinkhole created by the collapse of a cavern roof. It's very overhanging climb with good holds on a perfect red limstone.
Agiofarango is a gorge with sites on both sides, it can be reach with 30 minutes of 4wheels drive and 20 minutes of walk. Here, again the rock is perfect with holds concretions and a perfect beach.
