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Top 10 Beaches

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1. Vai

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.
2. Siteia

Unlike most larger Cretan coastal towns, Siteia has a perfectly good beach right on its doorstep that is great for windsurfing.
3. Xerokampos

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.
4. Kato Zakros

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.
5. Makrygialos

The best beach on the southeast coast. A long strip of sand interspersed with pebbles shelves gently into deeper water.
6. Mirtos

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.
7. Kouremenos

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.
8. Chionia

Rates a European Blue Flag for clean sand and water. There are even better, more secluded beaches to the south.
9. Milatos

A pebbly beach and surprisingly uncrowded compared with the teeming resorts only a few kilometres to the west.
10. Istro

Looks spectacular from a distance, with a sandy beach hemmed in by cliffs. But it is often heavily littered with flotsam and jetsam.