7 Days Unforgettable Culinary and Culture Tour in Crete
7 Days Unforgettable Culinary and Culture Tour in Crete
Crete: Heraklion, Rethymnon, Agios Nikolaos
7 days, 6 nights
€2157 / person
April - Octomber
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Unique experience in Crete for people who find the unique
Crete journey of flavors and culture.
Visit three famous towns of Crete, Heraklio, Rethymno, and Agios Nikolaos. Local cuisine, unparalleled products, beautiful sites, people, culture, and history have made Crete stand out for centuries.
Crete is an “ark” of rare natural beauty, Mediterranean culture, and history. “Whoever touches this island feels a mysterious power, through their veins and into the soul,” writes Nikos Kazantzakis, the great Cretan writer, in his book “Reference to Greco.”
Crete is famous for its products and its culture. In Crete, you will explore Cretan cuisine, learn about the Mediterranean diet, enjoy local food, and taste local wines and Cretan products.
You have the opportunity to learn about the ancient Minoan culture and the history of Crete. The trip involves visits to wineries, museums, and archaeological sites, three cooking lessons in three of the four prefecture towns of the island, and two food tastings in Heraklion and Rethymno. You have olive oil, honey, and wine tasting.
What are you expecting; Follow us and live like a native of Crete!!!!
We provide
- All Accommodations (Boutique Hotels or 4* Hotels
- Transportation – Airport/hotel on the day of arrival and hotel/airport on the day of departure
- Vehicle/Mini Van with English-speaking driver, Professional Travel Manager
- Meals – 6 breakfasts, 2 Lunch, 2 Food Tasting, 2 Dinner
- All private tours
- All excursions transfers
- All entrance fees
We do not provide
- Guiding at the Knossos Palace and Archaeological Museum
- Overnight tax
- Ttips
- Anything not mentioned above or below
UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCES
Visit the graphic town Agios Nikolaos with its beautiful lake and port
9 Labels of Wine Tasting – Lunch in Winery
2 Cooking Class, Wine Tasting, Pastry Class with Pastry Chef, Walking Food Tour in Heraklion and Rethymno, Cheese making, Olive Oil tasting, Honey tasting, Visit Pottery Workshop
Visit Rethymnon it bears traces of the many different periods of its long history.
Visit Heraklio city and admire castle Koule with old port and archaeological Museum
Tasting real Cretan Food and products
Day 1. Heraklion Crete -Arrival – Welcome Dinner
Overnight Heraklion
Day 2.Heraklio– Archeological Museum – City/Food Tour -Pastry Lesson-Visit Pastry History Museum
Meals included: Breakfast – Food Tour
Overnight: Heraklion
Day 3. Agios Nikolaos – Cheese Making – Cooking Class
Meals included: Breakfast – Lunch with wine
Overnight: Heraklion
Day 4. Food & Walking Tour of the Old Town of Rethymno- Pottery Workshop –Olive Oil and Honey
Meals included: Breakfast – Food Tour
Overnight: Heraklion
Day 5.Heraklion – Knossos Palace–Wine Olive Oil tasting -Cooking Class
Meals included: Breakfast –Lunch with wine
Overnight: Heraklion
Day 6.Heraklion –Free Day and Farewell Dinner with wine
Meals included: Breakfast –Dinner with wine
Overnight: Heraklion
Day 7.Heraklion- Departure
Meals included: Breakfast
Transportation to the airport for the flight back home.
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Day 1. Heraklion-Arrival-Welcome Dinner
Arrival at Heraklion airport. Check in to your room. Relax and explore your surroundings before dinner.
Meals included: Dinner
Overnight Heraklion
Day 2.Heraklion – Archeological Museum – City/Food Tour & Pastry Lesson-Visit Pastry History Museum
Enjoy a food and cultural walking tour suitable for all ages – it is an easy 1.5-mile walk, so you can explore the heart of Heraklion city while learning about its unique history and culture. On this tour, you will try local “mezedes” Greek coffee with bougatsa while enjoying the city of Heraklion. The images and the flavors that take you on this journey.
Then visiting Heraklion Archaeological Museum was founded in 1908 to house the first collections of Cretan antiquities, which were rapidly enhanced. Its cultural riches cover seven millennia, from the Neolithic period (7000 BC) to Roman times (3rd cent. AD). Following the restoration work of the past few years, completed in May 2014, the exhibition is housed in 27 rooms.
The next stop to the Unique Pastry History Museum. The museum opened its doors on 1-7-2021 and currently includes 400 rare exhibits with 32 unique in the world!
We will have a short tour of the production area. You see utensils, materials, and machines that our chefs need! We learn the production, conditions, and specifications and talk about the daily life of the confectioner-baker profession! We enter the specially designed space where the seminar will take place: on the subject of chocolate and its history! We show how we process it. We make chocolate eggs or filled chocolates! We learn to make our cornet out of paper! You write your name in “cornet” and make drawings on paper!
Meals included: Breakfast – Food Tour
Overnight: Heraklion
Day 3. Agios Nikolaos – Cheese Making – Cooking Class
Experience hands-on cheese-making in Crete with our local shepherd. You’ll milk and feed the goats, help make two types of cheese, and learn the secrets of cheese-making. Enjoy a cheese tasting with famous Cretan cheeses and savor the freshly-made cheese with homemade meze and raki.
After cheese making, you have a hands-on cooking experience. You have the opportunity, and with the guidance of a chef, to learn to make authentic Cretan plates using a wide range of fresh, organic ingredients from our garden. After the cooking class, you will sit down and enjoy the meal you’ve learned to cook, accompanied by local wine.
Different from all other towns in Crete, Agios Nikolaos.
The town’s graphic has a beautiful Lake and port. The lake (“Voulismeni”) is a folklore-inspiringly deep body of water connected to the sea by a narrow inlet.
Meals included: Breakfast – Lunch with wine
Overnight Heraklion
Day 4. Food & Walking Tour of the Old Town of Rethymno-Pottery Workshop –Olive Oil and Honey
The route: of authentic Crete: We stroll around the city, and let’s taste together the products of the Cretan Diet. We shall touch and smell the herbs and spices of Cretan soil. On our way, we will visit a traditional place in the heart of the old town of Rethymno, where tasting traditional products such as local cheese, honey of thyme, local wine, Cretan olives, and the famous Cretan traditional drink raki, and many other products. During the tour of the city, you will discover historical monuments. You see the Venetian architecture of another era.
The Olive Oil Tour: The quality of Cretan olive oil is known all over the world. At the olive mill, you have the opportunity to taste three different olive mills. You see how olive oil produced in the old days with manual tools and with the help of animals. Honey -Tasting & Tour: Taking part in the tour Is an unprecedented experience for the history and production of Honey in Crete. The bees, these unpredictable alchemists, fly from flower to flower, finding hidden gems, the juices of fruit, and the nectar of each land. Pottery workshop: Margarites village is famous for its ceramic tradition. In our workshop, we receive visitors from all over the world to get to know Cretan Ceramic Art to see how we make the pots on the wheel, how we decorate them, and how they are baked in the oven to reach their final form.
Meals included: Breakfast – Food Tour
Overnight: Heraklion
Day 5.Heraklion Knossos Palace – Cooking Class with Wine Experience – Wine and Olive Oil Tasting
Today you will visit the Palace of Knossos, built 3500 years ago! The Palace of Knossos is one monument you must see in Crete.
Discover and explore the History and Culture behind the Cretan diet with the company of our two executive hosts. Our chef will demonstrate and direct you to making four different Cretan dishes, and our certified sommelier will share with you our knowledge regarding winemaking on Crete. This experience will offer you expertise in making Authentic Cretan Dakos, Handmade Cretan Pasta or Handmade Cretan Pies, a homemade recipe from scratch, and a traditional dessert. At the end of your experience, you will enjoy the recipes you made with wines of our Estate which will pair harmoniously. You have a Cooking Class of four different dishes, lunch followed by food and wine pairing with a selection of four wines.
The Domaine Paterianakis is located in Melesses, in the Peza wine region, right in the center of Crete. The third generation of the Paterianakis family, Emmanuela and Niki, continues the wine tradition of organic farming, creating authentic Cretan wines with strong personalities. Winery, located within vineyards, is a pioneer facility built so that winemaking that done naturally, exploited by gravity. Guided wine tasting has five different select domaine wines. Taste our tsikoudia from a local grape. Tasting a virgin olive oil and accompanying tasting with a platter of selected Cretan cheeses, deli meat, and handmade marmalade.
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch with wine.
Overnight: Heraklion
Day 6.Heraklion- Free Day and Farewell Dinner
Heraklion is the largest city of Crete and one of Greece’s major urban centers.
Today you will have the opportunity to walk and explore on your own in Heraklion! The city of Heraklion is the commercial center of Heraklion. You can find a variety of variations for your shopping and see its beautiful corners and monuments. In the afternoon, you have a farewell dinner!
Meals included: Breakfast – Dinner with wine.
Overnight: Heraklion
Day 7.Heraklion – Departure
Breakfast
THANK YOU FOR COMING
Have a nice flight back home! KALO TAXIDI!
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