Full-Day Land Rover Safari from Heraklion: Explore Minoan Route & Cretan Mountains with Lunch
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869 Ratings
Embark on an exhilarating full-day Land Rover safari from Heraklion and explore the Minoan Route and Cretan Mountains. Visit historic sites, enjoy traditional snacks, and indulge in a delicious Cretan-style lunch.
Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Sfendili - Sfendile the forgotten village on Crete
What's Included
  • Lunch included
  • Knowledgeable driver/guide
  • Complimentary bottled water
  • Local taxes covered
  • No surcharges on fuel
  • Convenient hotel/port pickup and drop-off
What's Not Included
  • Drinks
  • Breakfast
  • Diction Cave Entrance Fee 6 Euro
Additional Information

Embark on an 8-hour guided journey through the mountains of Crete and explore the marvels of the Minoan Route. Visit historical landmarks such as an old Roman aqueduct and Diction Cave, known in mythology as Zeus’s place of birth. Savor a traditional snack accompanied by ‘raki’ in the town of Kastamonitsa, and indulge in a lunch prepared in Cretan style at a native tavern in Lassithi.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Kerstinr877
Apr 16, 2024
Perfect trip - Today we went on a wonderful tour into the mountains with Thomas. We had wonderful views and learned a lot about the country and its people, even if we couldn't completely solve the quiz 😊😊 The typical Greek food was super delicious!
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Sueanddavedooley
Apr 15, 2024
Fabulous day out! - Amazing family day out! Our guide Daryl was fantastic! Learned so much about the island and history. Lunch was beautiful, could not fault this trip, definitely a worth experience!
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Lou-ise45f
Apr 13, 2024
Perfect safari 👌 - A great day of interesting and good-humoured excursion, punctuated with anecdotes about the island and Cretan culture. On the program: tasting in a small village of raki and other local specialties, cheese tasting in a sheepfold, visit to the cave of Zeus then a good and hearty meal in a tavern, to finish discovering the Lassithi plateau. Throughout the day, we stop to observe different viewpoints of the island. In addition to obviously being the "BEST DRIVER of the company" and very friendly Grégory will take beautiful photos for you, don't hesitate! Aimie & Louise
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Jr3003
Apr 12, 2024
Thanks Giorgos, best guide ever 🥳 - Super nice tour with a really great guide, thank you Giorgos for the mega beautiful day 👍🏻🔥 absolutely recommendable & always happy to do it again 🥳🥳🥳
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Tomjw6345se
Apr 11, 2024
Thanks to Kostas our tour guide - We did the all day Land Rover tour from Hersonissos to Cave of Zeus. Also including shepherds hut with cheese, olive oil factory and raki tasting, Kristas village, off road to a mountain viewpoint and bbq Greek style lunch. A very nice fun day out which everyone really enjoyed. Kostas was very informative and gave us a lot of interesting info about history, local wildlife etc. Highlights were the cave, the lunch and spectacular Mountain View which you would need a 4x4 to reach
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Sarahcn4882il
Apr 10, 2024
A must do if you want to know and see more of Crete - We had such a fantastic day doing the safari. Daryll our driver was so informative and such a good laugh. It is totally worth the money and showed us so much of the island of Crete we would not have known or seen otherwise. The olive oil tasting, cheese tasting n bbq lunch is such a good bonus to the tour. Ages ranged from 70-14 years old in our group of 8 and all loved it.
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Donna_z
Apr 9, 2024
Don’t miss this experience - All the stops were wonderful and tasting the local olive oil, cheeses, and Raki were a highlight. Our guide Nicki’s was great and very funny. Lunch at the cafe was amazing. It was the best tour yet!
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Diane_w
Apr 9, 2024
Crete is Incredible! - Wow! Food and fun. Nikos was our guide and driver. He clearly loves his job! We had fun seeing the breathtaking sights, eating Cretan treats, drinking the Raki, playing with goats(and leaning how the cheese is made), seeing a 2000 year old tree, hearing about history and the way of life. We did not want the tour to end. The samples and lunch were delicious and we did not feel rushed. We had time to stretch our legs, shop a bit and enjoy the company. Great day!
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Fearless60762997653
Apr 4, 2024
Beautiful day trip into the interior of the island - It was a great trip with lots of interesting information about the country and its people, led in a humorous way by our driver Thomas with many educational stops in the beautiful mountains of Crete. Thank you very much, see you next time.
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Jyoti
Apr 3, 2024
4 x 4 day out - We just come back from our day out driven around in a LandRover Discovery we spent the day in the fantastic company of our driver and guide Darryl. He was very knowlegeable about the island and we had lots of regular stops for photos, refreshments, Raki, food and wine - which was all included. We stopped off to taste some extra virgin olive oil, and Raki. We met up with local farmers and fed their mountain goats and ate their goats cheese. We stopped off to go and see "the cave that Zeus was born in". To get there it was a 20 minute walk up a steep hill and Darryl was very good and explained clearly that this was optional and those that did not want to carry out the walk could relax and have a coffee in a local bar with him. There was also an option to take a donkey to carry you up the hill for 10 Euros. The cave itself was lovely and cool although had lots of steps to walk down in to it and back out. There was a fee of 4 Euros to enter the cave - children were free. The mountain roads we drove along were very rocky and there were a few hair pin bends,but Darryl was an excellent and very skilled driver. All in all an excellent day and well worth excursion to go on to get out and about and see the real Crete. Massive Darryl for making it memorable
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