Country and people  > Nature & Environment

Lovers of plants and botanist will live very exciting moments on Crete. There are about 150 endemic (only indigenous to Crete) species of plants, orchids and all the year round a rich blossoming to be admired everywhere. The most important tree on Crete surely is the olive tree. In wintertime millions of trees make up the main or additional income of the island’s inhabitants. The quality of Cretan oil, so proved by numerous scientific studies, is unsurpassable because of it’s extremely high content of unsaturated fatty acids.

Wild herbs, herbs (oregano, thyme etc.) and medicinal herbs (Dittany) are indigenous. Crete is the most northern point of the world, where African trees as cedar and palms prosper.

On the following website we select one of all the various and interesting plants (healthy ingredients) the St. John´s Bread.

There also are some animals, indigenous only on Crete such as the KriKri a so-called wild goat and the Cretan tree frog as well as birds of prey such as special species of falcons.

In western Crete some beaches protect Caretta-Caretta (big sea turtle) during oviposition.

In our vicinity there are some sights that can be reached by walking.
(Lychnostatis, excavations of Malia…)

 

       


 


 

  

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