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Rates a European Blue Flag for clean sand and water. There are even better, more secluded beaches to the south.
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Looks spectacular from a distance, with a sandy beach hemmed in by cliffs. But it is often heavily littered with flotsam and jetsam.
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At the foot of the Zakros Gorge, Kato Zakros has a crescent of sand and pebble beach, with a small fishing harbour and a handful of pensions and tavernas.
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Kouremenos is less than ideal for sunbathing because of strong breezes for most of the year. Those same breezes, however, make it a favourite windsurfing spot, with best conditions in summer usually in the afternoon.
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The best beach on the southeast coast. A long strip of sand interspersed with pebbles shelves gently into deeper water.
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A pebbly beach and surprisingly uncrowded compared with the teeming resorts only a few kilometres to the west.
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An amiably unpretentious farming and fishing village with a long, south-facing shingle beach, which is far less crowded than most in eastern Crete, even in high summer.
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Unlike most larger Cretan coastal towns, Siteia has a perfectly good beach right on its doorstep that is great for windsurfing.
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Vai’s beach is certainly the most scenic in eastern Crete, with yellow sand and a grove of date palms giving it a truly tropical appearance.
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A tiny village with a series of small, sandy east-facing coves, one of the few coast places not yet discovered by the package tourism industry.
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