Early Travel Tips

Detailed information concerning how to reach Chania and MAICH will appear in the web page later in spring 2002 and will be notified to participants by e-mail. If you wish to reserve early your travel flights we suggest the following:

Option 1: Fly to Athens International Airport ‘El. Venizelos’ and then use a transfer flight to Chania with either Olympic Airways, Aegean Airlines or Cronus Airlines.

Option 2: From Athens (where you can spend a couple of days) travel by ferry boat to Chania (direct trip). At least 1 boat leaves Piraeus Port every evening and arrival in Souda Port (just 2 km from MAICh) is early next morning.

Option 3: Fly to Chania directly using chartered flights. However this can be done from only a few European cities.

Option 4: Fly directly to Heraklion (largest city of Crete, 150 km E of Chania, with several flights from all major European Airports). Buses leave to Chania every hour (2h 30min). You can spend a day in Heraklion to visit Knossos (6 km from Heraklion), the most important city of the Minoan Civilization, and the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion.

My travel agent 'Sun and Sea' can help you on everything before or after Chania; it can be reached at the web site http://www.sunandseaonline.com/. For all queries, please contact the director Mrs Despina Vouga (mentioning my name, Costas Thanos) at sales@sunandseaonline.com.

Some useful links

Municipality of Chania http://www.chania.gr/

Greek National Tourism Organization http://www.gnto.gr/

Greece Now: The contemporary Greek e-zine and online resource http://www.greece.gr/index.htm

Hellas On Line - Greek Pages http://www.hol.gr/greece/

Hellenic Culture http://www.culture.gr/welcome.html

Cultural Events in Greece http://www.cultureguide.gr/events/index.jsp

Greek Universities http://en.uoa.gr

Map of Greece http://agn.hol.gr/main.htm

Athens News Agency http://www.ana.gr/

Athens Online http://www.aol.gr

Greek Airports http://www.hcaa-eleng.gr/greekair.htm

Athens International Airport http://www.aia.gr/

Olympic Airways http://www.olympic-airways.gr/

Aegean Airlines http://www.aegeanair.gr/indexintro.html

Greek Ferries http://www.greekferries.gr/

Greek Hotels http://www.greekhotels.gr/

Athens 2004 Olympic Games http://www.athens.olympic.org/

More links

Google Web Directory for Chania http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/Greece/Prefectures/Chania/

Directory for Chania http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Greece/Prefectures/Chania/

Sfakian dialect http://www.infocrete.com/sfakia-crete/dialect.html

Raki/Tsikoudia the Cretan spirit http://www.infocrete.com/sfakia-crete/raki.html

Tsipouro http://www.ana.gr/hermes/1998/jun/food.htm

Souda Airport - Current Weather Conditions http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/LGSA.html

Sfakia, Crete http://www.sfakia-crete.com/sfakia-crete/sfakia-crete.html

Wolfgang Kistler's Picture Gallery http://www.wkistler.de/index.html

Pictures from west Crete http://www.fortunecity.com/oasis/seychelles/209/Crete/Kriti.html

CRETE - Mountains and Gorges Nature Guide http://www.gibbonsr.fslife.co.uk/html/crete-xtra.html

Chania-Samaria http://www.ecrete.gr/creteguide/en_hania2.htm