The Lasithi Plateau is one of Crete's most scenic areas, apparently. The thing to do it seems is to take a loop through a series of pretty villages, marked by large numbers of windmills. However, we were here for a different site. The kids wanted to see the cave in which Zeus, by legend, was born.
Nevertheless one couldn't fail to be impressed by the scenery. The caves are a decent little climb up the mountain from the plateau.
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| Kit being Kit! |
Now what the guide book warned, and indeed couldn't stress enough, is the weird phenomenon at the caves. The tour buses. Like many tourist sites in the world, this one is blighted by mass tourism. But it starts at 11am, almost as if a switch was turned on. When we arrived just before 11 there was only one coach and moderate number of visitors. From 11 the tour buses came and came, and the visitors went from a few to an almost constant queue. Given the climb there were a number of elderly who really might have done better not making the descent into the cave, or rather more the climb back up, and there were lots of folk who came in sandals or flip flops for which the paths were definitely not suited. This was stout trainers territory.
What can one say about the caves? Fine set of stalagmites and stalactites. As you can see. And that is about that.
Back to the scenery outside.
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