Exploring Crete: Greece's largest island - Mediterranean journey | DW Documentary
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- Presenter Sineb El Masrar is touring Crete. Locals call it the "Island of the Gods” because as legend would have it, Zeus was born here.
After a spot of shopping in Chania Old Town, she travels through the Cretan hinterlands past a multitude of olive groves. After Spain and Italy, Greece is the world’s third largest producer of olive oil. Olive oil maker Ióanna Paraschakis invites Sineb to taste some of her wares.
Crete is the largest Greek island. It offers stunning stretches of coastline, beautiful port towns like Ágios Nikólaos, as well as picturesque mountainscapes. Instead of in a boring old car, Sineb explores the gorgeous countryside on a rented e-bike. In the mountain village of Kouses, she visits a herb store run by Yannis Giannoutsos and creates her own salt. All the herbs and spices sold here, such as thyme and oregano, are cultivated organically.
Crete is also suffering the impact of climate change and the resulting aridity. That’s why researchers Ioannis Daliakopoulos and Anargyros Sideris are trying to find ways to support local farmers. Sineb finds out about their crucial pilot project to address water scarcity in the Mediterranean region.
Community plays a key role in Greek culture, and dance is an important aspect of national identity. Antonia Pantelaki has taught dance in Archanes for many years. She knows all the nuances of Greek dance and shows Sineb the iconic Cretan dance known as the Sirtaki.
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My brother was in the US Navy & they stopped in Crete, Greece. He said it was so beautiful & the people were so lovely. I was so jealous of him. I hope to visit one day.
I can highly recommend visiting. Especially outside high tourist season (April-June and Sep-Oct).
I remember seeing as a young kid a group of US Navy or Air Force Osprey V22's flying very low right above the hotel we were staying on Crete. Spectacular sight especially for a young boy 😄
I visited Crete in 2016.i started in Athens, took the speed ferry, spend 5 days (not enough time!) And continue to Santorini for my 3rd visit 😊 Crete/Menoian was the center of western civilization, the origin where fashion drapping was from. My last Greek island discovery was Rhode island, just 90 minutes by speed ferry from fetheye Turkey in 2019. Greek island hopping by ferry is the best way.
Heaven on earth :)
the US navy needs to get the hell out of Greece
I absolutely love crete. One of my favourite places
I live in Athens and when my daughter's cousin came to Greece for the first time she stayed on this beautiful island and she actually said "I don't understand how we humans deserve such beauty" 😀
I wish i was born there too
Texas is good place to grow up 😊
@@sherylreynolds1119W. Featured: Guns, guns, gUns, guNs, gunS,
Greeks; proud nation with a rich history and culture. Good people and food, beautiful language & places. I am absolutely in love with this country.
"In Germany they have beer, in 🇬🇷Greece 🇬🇷 we have olive oil".
Greeting from a Persian
🇬🇷💙🇮🇷 Persian
Thank you my friend :). We love Persian people.
oil oil so it goes down easy or in. do your research in Persia, you have no idea what the people in Greece are going through
I just simply love Crete. Been there over 10 times and won't stop ❤
Me too
Crete in an incredible island that is called the “small continent” because Crete has about everything a continent has. From Alpine mountain ranges all the way to the only natural palm forests in Europe.
- Crete is the largest island in Greece with a size of 8.336 km². It’s the 5th biggest island in the Mediterranean
- Crete is 270 km in length and max 65 km in width.
- Crete is home to the Minoan civilization (3650 - 1300 BCE) out of Greece’s 4 bronze age civilizations. The Minoan civilization was one of the most advanced bronze age civilizations on the planet, with it’s Palatial architectural phase starting from 2000 BCE onwards. The Minoan towns, palaces and villages had urban planning, complex sewerage and plumbing systems with flush toilets even in common houses on the 2nd and 3rd floor. All the way to it’s anti earthquake architectural technology and natural airco in it’s designs among many other things.
- Crete’s history dates back to 9000 years ago.
- Crete has 2100-2200 plant species, of which 25% is endemic. For comparison. The biodiversity of Crete is higher than England, Scotland and Ireland combined.
- Crete is home to the oldest evidence of sea navigation in the world dated to 130.000 years ago.
- As mentioned. Crete has the only natural palmforests in Europe. These can be found in Vai, Preveli and some other places.
- Crete has 3 mountain chains rising 2500 meters straight out of the sea.
- Crete’s mountains receive plenty of snow and is perfectly suited for skiing.
- Crete alone has 5000 caves, some very deep ones like the Gourgouthakas cave in the Lefka ori mountains (one of the 3 mountain chains on the island) explored till a depth of -1208 meters
- Talking about caves. Zeus is born in the cave on Lassithi plateau in the eastern part of Crete.
- Crete has 1000 km of crystal clear coastline out of Greece’s total of 16.000 km.
These coastlines and beaches are in every form one can imagine. With or without mountains, with towns or entirely off the beaten path or secluded. Crete is home even to pink sand beaches.
- Crete has more than 400 gorges. The Samaria gorge is the most famous one and is the longest gorge in Europe.
- Crete is receiving it’s own national highway. Sections are already completed. Some are in development.
- Crete is home to 600.000 people. The funny thing is that 4000 years ago it was estimated to also be home to 600.000 people.
- Crete is home to the Kri Kri. A goat who escaped domestication 9000 years ago and is thus a wild goat found in places like the Lefka Ori mountains.
- Crete is home to 60.000.000 olive trees.
- Also Crete has the highest consumption of olive oil in the whole wide world. Talking about loving it and the best quality too!
- Crete has a clear distinct cuisine out of many other regional cuisines in Greece
- Crete has many evidences of mini hippo’s, mini elephants, and other animals we today specify as African. Till not so long ago even! They died out only few thousands years ago. The reason is that most mega fauna we classify as African actually all originated from Europe and Asia.
- Crete is home to the oldest olive tree in the world. Fitting for a nation with a tremendously old history with olive oil.
- The painter El Greco originates from Crete.
I am from Cyprus is the wheather as humid as in Cyprus l am a retired English Linguist&Teacher I am thinking of settling down there
Love the olive woman's humor and her Brooklynite accent.
GREECE IS HEAVENLY BEAUTIFUL
Crete was our go-to place for holidays as a child. It inspired my lifelong love of Greek culture and will always have a very special place in my heart.
Love Crete, been many times. amazing place, wonderful people.
🇬🇷Η παρουσίαση είναι πολύ ωραία, θα έπαιρνα τόσες πολλές πληροφορίες για τον πολιτισμό, την κουζίνα, την επιστήμη και την τεχνολογία, την ιστορία, η φύση είναι συγκινητική, εκτιμώ όλους όσους δούλεψαν τόσο σκληρά για να φέρουν μια αξιοσημείωτη ιστορία.
I am from Cyprus ,retired English Linguist&Teacher I wonder if it is as humid as in Cyprus in Crete
As a german-greek cretan with family around Chania i say thank you for this very nicely done short documentation!
How on earth can a place be this stunning? ❤
Is the birth place of the MINOAN civilization! The female were the ruler
Beautiful, also anyone visiting Greece should visit Takis Shelter which is located on the island of Crete near the town of Ierapetra, Takis is just a wonderful human being..
Fully agree.
Ierapetra
Yes, he just reached the 500 animal-mark.
I've supported Takis Shelter a few times over the years with small donations. Funny to see this here! He does good work
Tak(Kat=SET)Is(Os) sounds like a(THEoS=SETH)-GOD . 😇
I was in Crete this summer and God what an island!!!
My 3 favorite Greek islands are Santorini, Crete and Rhode, each island is so unique! I was in Crete during Greek Easter during last April 2016, the supermarkets was closed and I had to wait for it to open to buy my favorite yogurt! I stayed in 3 different 2010, 2014, 2016 at guesthouse, hostel in Santorini, each town are charming. In July 2019, I get to visit Rhode island, only 90 minutes by speed ferry from fetheye Turkey. They hostel kitchen was newly renovated, with cook books, hammock! I love Greek island and the bugasa pastry!
Stopped at Chania on a Med Cruise in Aug 2019 - sadly less than a day to explore but had a Cretan friend from Galatas to show us around - a very special link forged in WW2 between New Zealand and Crete - never forgotten!! I'll be back!
Thank you so much DW for such a wonderful documentry.... lots of love from 🇮🇳
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So what do you do for living Bengali bro?
Can't wait to go back :) Crete is truly blessed by the Gods.
Crete my homeland! It’s been five years since I moved out of Chania and I miss it every day.
Same ugh ❤️
You visited Crete in December which look amazing no comparison with other European or other Mediterranean countries, Imagine if you visit Crete during summer, just heaven !!!
Too hot in summer though.
@@robertskolimowski7049 Maybe, but in 10 of the 12 months it's truly perfect. And in my experience the summer is very doable. But I have more southern genes. Crete is famous for also having winds over it's lands. So it often has a breeze. It's very doable for me. But the thing is. Crete is perfect for anyone. Just pick a different month if July August is too much for you. March-May or September-November are also perfect. Actually also in the winter
@@Ptolemy336VV Gotcha🤝
I visited in May 2016, love it!
Winter is much better. I was raised in Crete, summers are too hot and crowded. Unless you want to spend all your days plopped on a beach like a starfish, autumn and winter are the better seasons. It’s a lot more calm and you can go sightseeing without being rushed or having hordes of people all around you.
Such a great channel! Better than television! 👏🏻
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Thanks DW for sharing my home island! It was a great documentary!
Wonderful place🇬🇷, from the usa🇺🇸💜😁.
what a fantastic video! My ancestors are from the Peloponnese but I can see that I must visit Crete on my next trip to Greece. You have stirred my soul! Bravo
Today another Mediterranean journey : Greece🇬🇷.
I got to know a lot about Olive harvesting and olive processing, that is nice.
Lemon-chili spice looks good.
And amphitheater and dance very nice.
Nice Greece journey by DW. Good.
Well put together documentary on a historically beautiful island. Crete is definitely on my travel list now!
Greek island hopping is the best way to discover. After my journey to Greece and turkey, I found their history and food are so similar due to the long history. The actual Troy is in west coast of Turkey
Great documentary and very well done, as expected from DW. Crete is beautiful, and Sineb as well
Lovely.....just lovely.....kudos DW👏👌
Very Nice Greece 😍
Came here for the college task, but I ended up staying in this video from admiring the beauty of this island.
Hoping to visit Greece soon 🇬🇷❤️
Dreaming of Greece
Excellent video and very interesting.
Thank you.🇬🇷
Thanks for watching.
Love❤ from India🇮🇳.
🇬🇷💙🇮🇳
Most wonderful documentary coverage video about tourists capability of crete ,Greece ...interesting video ..thanks DW channel.. I appreciate your enjoyment coverage about this sweet matter
Once again another great documentary. 🍷
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Nice video! ❤🇬🇷
"Greece 🇬🇷🇬🇷 is one of my favorite European countries that I want to visit and live in someday coming from the Philippines.?!"
I have enjoyed it. Bravo!
Well done documentary... and amazing report way she dresses up is just amazing..and respectfully..love it ...brava... sometimes i wanna visit Greece..beautiful country
Amazing trip ! I had visited create island , I don't really, remember which year we were there , we travel with car , drive to a whole island until the hill, on the hill you can see very interesting life at there, I thought there were no one at there . I had visited iraklion, chania, dancing Greek at hotel together with local, visit olive garden and factory , visited one to another beautiful beaches, really unforgettable trip. It's very worth it trip. Create people also amazing. I love to eat Greek salad , the taste so different from anywhere else. Sometime I try to make it by my own. But alway feels not the same. I think because of local tomatoes and cucumber from create land also local cheese.
How is it possible that people are that welcoming? So lovely ❤
Off season ;)
Nice! Hoping to visit soon
great documentary ..love from India !!
It was an amazing documentary.
Thank you DW for sharing valuable information. I'm a history major and you never disappoint me✍️💚
Beautiful connection to the earth and real living.
I love Crete. I first visited in 1998, 2001,2003 and 2012. Malia was explosive summer partying.
Greece is my second country ❤️🇬🇷✊🙏
More , more , show us more, what's coming next week? We want more. Luv dis travel show. 👌👍❤️🌹👏
Yes i'm from Chania
so nice to see home , ksenita
An excellent documentary
Incredible documentary by dw
Beautiful island 🎉❤
The clay shower is amazing!
Awesome ceramics!
This wasn’t a documentary it was a blog, if your gona show the island have like 2-3 minutes of the scenery not like .2 seconds and then do a transition
informative about the island.
Excellent information and narration...
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
Amazing.
Lovely!
It was outstanding when she said “in sha allah”❤️💙
Nice documentary ,the greek lady at the beginning she is super funny 😁 loved her mood
You are good looking enough to be Greek. Good tour, god bless and see you again.
The Greek and the Levant culinary and gastronomical similarities are most notable.
Even Turkish food shares a striking resemblance with the Greek Nutrition patterns and food baskets.
Turkish style coffee, Yoghurt, bread with every meal, a lot of vegetables, sprinkling of olive oil over salads, hummus, labneh, Cold Mezze servings, Raki which resembles Ouzo in some ways, etc.
Another magnificent video from DW.
Why was the Nike logo blurred out❓
But Nike = Νίκη / neekee in greek which means...victory!
Fantastic 👏
I am sorry, did i miss something ... the little cups with mounds inside and urchin/like pieces, what are they for?
search for pythagorean cup
Very Impresive Island with exotic beaches🏖⚓ .
Been there in summer 2016 , I still think to visit it one more time 💙
lovely, thanks for sharing ::-)
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Love you’re documentary’s … thank you
Your not you’re (typo)
Great..... ❤❤❤❤❤......
I was hoping that she would have taken a tour of the museums in Heraklion showing the Minoan culture and civilization.
I will Travel there 16 of September can’t wait.
Do you do one for Sicily as well?
much love 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Lovely 😊
I love ur documentary 👍👍
Thanks for watching.
The anchor didn't ask why there is a hole in two pots.
Why would you blur the Nike logo tho...
Anyway, nice documentary. I went back to the Mediterranean journey series and I can see how Sineb's hair grew longer throughout the journey. She's gorgeous!
I see. When you add water and fresh fennel to the tsatsiki you get tarator. Thank you, DW.
Nice documentary! Anyway did she get an answer for why there was a hall in that clay cup for?
I was wondering the same thing, after a bit of googling I found this on wikipedia: A Pythagorean cup (also known as a Pythagoras cup, Greedy Cup, Cup of Justice or Tantalus cup) is a practical joke device in a form of a drinking cup, credited to Pythagoras of Samos. When it is filled beyond a certain point, a siphoning effect causes the cup to drain its entire contents through the base. The cup can be used to learn about greed.
Crete is so ❤❤
Very nice report! As somebody who is from Greece and Crete I'd like to correct you only about the Greek dances. Sirtaki is a made-up dance for the movie. Not traditional to Greece or Greeks. Greeks don't know it. You should have explored the origins of Cretan Dances.
Those sandals were... something...
pottery has not been practised in crete for centuries! But for Milleniums :)
Zineb has an awesome personality, very friendly. everything about her is pretty much Moroccan hhhh
Greece is on my list, I wish I could visit it soon.
Good 👍
4:34 european hi-tec sector now. It's green and supereffective!
What's the problem with olive oil producer's T shirt😊? Why did you blur the sign/text on the T shirt?
🇹🇷🇬🇷 One of my favourite Greek islands!
Keep away. We blew ourselves up to avoid Turks as you see on the documentary and you still come around? Simply, leave us alone.
@@hermespsychopompos8753 what documentary? the one that the English made?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@hermespsychopompos8753 i like the greek people. i have more greek friends then Turks. so you can relax
@@hermespsychopompos8753 The turks and greeks lived together for hundreds of years peacefully. UNTİL THE ENGLİSH CAME!
@@tolgaa2613 Are you kidding me? Until the English came? We tried to free ourselves many times. Only the last time which was successful Britons helped economically. We didn't live together. We lived in our own areas just paying taxes and blood to Turks, stealing our kids to make em soldiers. Now, as I said, leave us alone. We don't want people thinking we have any connection with you. We are Europeans and you are not.
Crete is a huge island and bloody warm. But overall, a great place for experiencing tons of ancient ruins including the Minoan's Knossos. Oh and the food is fantastic. I love the Mediterranean. Obviously her t shirt says Nike...so pointless.
But Nike = Νίκη / neekee in greek which means...victory!
Sineb is an Islamic German Moroccan. She is the encapsulation of sophistication and female liberation. I highly respect and enjoy her work.
Good
It would be better if DW puts subtitles instead of dubs. I find the dubs distracting.
It's one of the most beautiful places. The food although it's fresh, I would rather to have a little stronger favor.😅
how old is this video? 1990s ? early 2000?
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can't hear the vocal track over the music
apparently all of your videos are ilke that. :. shame.
6:15 so that's how B. Johnson gets his haircut!
We didn’t get the answer as to why there are holes on the little ceramics pots??? I need to know! LoL