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At Exploring Creta, we offer visitors a variety of high-quality services in Crete. Among other things, we provide city tours, mountain skiing, hiking in the mountains, and exciting sailing cruises to breathtaking destinations.

Our company is passionate about providing thrilling experiences while also offering hospitality and a family-like atmosphere to our guests, treating them as guests rather than "customers"! With a team of dedicated professionals with knowledge and experience in their field and a deep love for nature, we provide services to our visitors with consistency and a sense of high responsibility.

Our experience dates back to 1994 with our love for the sea and cruises in the Ionian and Aegean. Over the years, the company has expanded its expertise to the beautiful Cretan waters, particularly in the Chania region. Since 2016, we have grown, and we continue to operate the licensed tourism agency under the name Exploring Creta.

We are also proud to assist visitors with disabilities. Our wheelchair-accessible vehicle (WAV) is fully equipped with all necessary facilities.

We would be delighted to serve you and offer you the genuine Cretan hospitality.

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At FISIKA, we produce and supply 100% natural skin care products, with a history passed down from generation to generation.

All our products are based on organic olive oil and other local ingredients and prioritize not only the health of the skin but also the well-being of the planet.

The company F. SIKA & Co. has been operating since 2010 by mother and daughter Filio and Maria Sika. "We envisioned FISIKA as a space where visitors could connect with Crete in depth - through its ingredients, its craftsmanship and its spirit."
And we succeeded! Come and feel it yourself, an authentic Cretan experience at FISIKA, in Gerani.
 

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Hiona Holiday ?otel is is a warm place of hospitality that seeks to offer a comfortable stay. It is located in the easternmost part of Crete, in Palekastro, an area rich in history and culture. It is very close to the Palm Forest of Vai and the beaches of Chiona and Kouremenos, which is known as the beach of surfers. Read less

IDEA training, with over 30 years of presence in the field of Training, is an innovative and inclusive Training and Consulting organization based in Thessaloniki. With an emphasis on innovative teaching methods, IDEA executives implement every year a multitude of training programs and studies for the development of human resources and employability of unemployed and private sector workers. Over the past two years, IDEA has implemented a wide range of Vocational Education and Training Programs using modern and asynchronous teaching methods for more than 15,000 trainees. Read less

Experience the Authentic Crete

Get ready to pedal your way to paradise with Joyride.bike Crete. 
Discover the hidden gems of Crete as you ride off the beaten path, immersing yourself in its rich culture and breathtaking landscapes. 

From thrilling mountain biking excursions to personalized cycling itineraries, from exhilarating daily tours to immersive multiday adventures, we offer something for every adventurer. 
Whether you're seeking for an adrenaline-pumping adventure or a leisurely ride through scenic routes, join us for a fascinating and authentic experience, where the road less traveled leads to moments of pure joy, the joy to ride! Where every ride is a celebration of freedom and discovery.

With decades of cycling experience and a passion for exploration, we're your trusted partners in uncovering the wonders of the stunning island of Crete.

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Katalagari Luxury Suites is located 17 km away from Heraklion, in the homonymous village, and started operating in 2003. It is built on a mountain and offers a view of the Cretan countryside. It consists of 14 suites that combine tradition with a different aspect of Cretan life and offers breakfast tailored to the needs of guests (vegetarian, gluten-free, etc.). The location of the accommodation allows the visitor to carry out activities of various kinds: visits to wineries, archeological sites, nature, the sea etc. Read less

KTEL HERAKLIO - LASITHI S.A. is the largest transport organization in Crete and one of the largest in Greece. With over 200 modern buses of all sizes, it carries out hundreds of routes every day connecting the largest cities of Crete with all its settlements, as well as mainland Greece within a context of combined transport. Its goal is the safe and fast transport of people and parcels to as many destinations as possible in Crete, in Greece, but also abroad.

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“Maggiri” the homemade traditional pasta workshop, faithful to tradition, was created to offer you pure and high-quality pasta, without preservatives and colouring impurities, kneaded with brandfresh eggs , goat’s and sheep’s milk from local producers

“maggiri” was the name of  an old Cretan pasta which was cooked in a very specific way: Half of it was boiled the other half fried and then altogether stirred in the broth of the first half. It was served like thick soup with lots of cheese on top.

Our goal is for products with high nutritional value and for this reason, our pasta dry out many hours at low temperature and thus their nutrients cannot be altered

An attempt to pass down to new generational the traditional pasta of our land and to awaken tasteful memories to the olders.

Alongside the traditional flavor such as noodles,wholewheat noodles, swivels, orzo, chylopitaki, frumenty, fusilli pasta and xinochodros, we evolved into more specialized tastes such as noodles with the ink of the cuttlefish, noodles with locust beans flour, fusilli pasta with turmeric, fusilli with basil and garlic, fusilli with dikkoko wheat,  fusilli with basil and garlic, fusilli with vegetables,fusilli with ricotta,vegetables orzo, whoelewheat orzo and traditional swivels with cretan herbal extract.

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MCBS offers specialized, adaptive digital solutions and services for travel, leisure, entertainment and tourism industry with a design-thinking approach. 

Its applications and platforms include culture and venue management solutions, port terminal cruise operations, passenger flow management, ferry ticketing management, conversational interfaces, traveller recommendation systems.

Our target is to empower operations with data-driven intelligence, streamlined operational agility, AI-driven interfacing  and decision-support to achieve high customer  -visitor or traveler- experience, cost efficiency and alignment to sustainable practices. With Insight and Innovation, MCBS team and partners' network upload technology inventions to its solutions, from AI to fintech and cloud-edge computing towards the emerging multi-partner digital ecosystems of the future. 

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Milia is an accommodation of high ecological sensitivity, a mountain restored settlement of the 16th century with rooms that preserve the architecture and aesthetics of the mountainous region of Western Crete. It is located in an area included in the NATURA network, in a green valley, at 550m. above the surface of the sea, below the peak Psilos head of the Koutroulis mountain range. The settlement is surrounded by a forest with chestnuts, arbutuses, locust trees and a wide variety of trees and plants. The restoration of the old houses began in 1982, with attention to detail and respect of nature and has been operating as an eco-lodge since 1993, bringing the atmosphere and footprint of its former inhabitants to the present. Read less