Lasithi Plateau & Knossos Palace Guided Tour: Explore Minoan History and Local Crafts
4.4
29 Ratings
Heraklion

Join a supervised tour to the Kera Kardiotissa monastery and the Dikteon Cave, with a subsequent excursion to the village of Psychro to witness a potter at work. Take in the breathtaking sights from the Seli Ambelou Lasithi Plateau and conclude your journey at the Minoan Palace of Knossos, where the annals of civilization commenced 4000 years ago.

Duration: 10 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Kera Kardiotissa Monastery - Kera Kardiotissa Monastery, is an Orthodox nunnery dedicated to Virgin Mary, situated near the village of Kera at an altitude of 650m. It is famous for the icon of Mary believed to be miraculous. It is surrounded by fortified walls and the church features murals dating back to 14th - 15th century.
What's Included
  • Transport by air-conditioned coach or minivan
  • Professional Guide
  • Pickup and Drop off from hotels and designated meeting points
What's Not Included
  • Admission fee to Dikti Cave 6 EUR per adult - People up to the age of 25, from EU member states free
  • Admission fee to Kera 2 EUR per adult - People up to the age of 25, from EU member states free
  • Admission fee to Knossos 15 EUR per adult - People up to the age of 25, from EU member states free
  • Food & drinks
Location
Kera Kardiotissa Monastery
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
4.4
(29 Ratings)
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Helene_b
May 16, 2023
Informative, well organized and interesting tour - This trip that includes Palace Knossos, the Lasithi Plateau, the Kardiotissa Monastery and the Dikteon Cave, is a well organized and worthwhile tour. I enjoyed all aspects of the tour.
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Wallingfordel
Sep 19, 2022
Definitely a fun tour worth taking - Fantastic tour company!! We thoroughly enjoyed visiting Zeus' Cave, seeing the plateau, having lunch at a local tavern and finishing up at Knossos Palace. Our guide was excellent. This company provides pick up service from hotels outside of Hersonissos which worked out great! Great tour, great day!
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Kolos_k
Jul 14, 2021
Good intense combo - The tour was a very good combination of sightseeing, little bit hiking, history and culture. The tour guides explained everything in 3 languages. The bus is cool and comfortable. Be prepared for a really long day, especially if you are picked up early, the complete tour took us 12 hours. It was informative, the guides explained much more about each site compared what is written onto standard tourist signs. Well organized.
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Zilvinas_m
Jul 7, 2021
Great day to spend in central Crete - Was very good expidrence. Guides were very knowligible and we saw a lot in One day. We saw Knossos, had pottery class,lunch in vilige was great.
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Christian
Sep 6, 2023
Wonderful day with many highlights, perfectly organised. - Overall a tour that we can definitely recommend. It was perfectly organised, pick-up from the hotel, friendly personnel and very modern busses. The programme was not too stuffed and good to digest. However, the tour guide can improve (thus 4/5 stars).
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Taylor_m
Sep 14, 2022
Great tour - Great to see the history and sites! Tour guide was amazing and informative. Only downside was our tour group was a little rude and were impatient and pushing to get off the bus. No fault of the guided tour. Still worth a go!
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Marta_k
Sep 1, 2021
Intense but worth it - It’s a very intense trip, it could be narrowed only to Lasithi Plateu, Dikteon Cave, Knossos and lunch break. However, still recommend it
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162kia
Sep 27, 2022
Nicely organized trip, but lacking information at the booking site - So I basically paid 45€ for a bus ride and guiding. The guide that we had was really good of a story teller, which made listening to her guidance entertaining. She was nice and looked after everyone. I was on a budget and it just was a poor experience for me because of the lack of information that you need to ¡carry your id! in order to get the free tickets you need to buy yourself to latishi and knossos when you're a under 25yo european citizen. Since there was no mention of anything really, I would assume that everything is taken care of for me if I purchase a trip package that says I do not have to pay for anything else, than the really good food we had at this really nice restaurant in betweed the visits of latishi and knossos. We also visited a monastery and a nice shop that had clothing, ceramics, olive oil, cosmetics ect.
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Pinktravelgirl
May 12, 2022
Don't bother with this tour - This tour took 11 hours, 3 of which were interesting... the cave is cool as is Palace of Knossis but you spend half the day picking up people at hotels and dropping them off, it was awful! Lunch break is too long. Find a smaller group to do it with so it doesn't include a tour of every resort on the coast!! Our guide Mary was very knowledgeable but it was still torture. And wear proper shoes, if you try hiking up the non-paved (but more scenic) route to the cave in sandals you'll likely injure yourself. And they won't warn you that you need to be fit to get up there, down into the cave and back up again, I thought we were going to end up doing CPR on some people!
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Jeanine_g
Aug 17, 2021
$40 down the drain - This tour was not impressive at all. The guide was all over the place. She didn’t seem very knowledgeable. And if she was she was so animated that it barely came across. It was almost like she thought it she spoke big then we would feel it more. I do not like that every other minute is a stop to some sort of shop to spend money. The restaurant we went to was very delicious. That I liked. The coolest part of this trip was the cave in the beginning. Definitely very cool. Knossos was the worst part of the tour. About a third of the group, including myself, walked off to wander in our own directions. Her screaming through the headsets was too much. Then half of it was “just imagine This and that, I can’t tell you exactly what or how much but let’s say it was like this. You can imagine”. I’m not making this up. I couldn’t! I was so over it. $40 down the drain.
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