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Kournas Lake Exploration: Olive Oil Factory Visit with Wine Tasting Experience
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Kournas
Explore Kournas Lake, the only freshwater natural lake in Crete, and enjoy a coffee break in a local taverna. Visit an olive oil factory for a tour and tasting, then head to a winery for a botanical garden tour and wine tasting experience.
Explore Kournas Lake, the only freshwater natural lake in Crete, and enjoy a coffee break in a local taverna. Visit an olive oil factory for a tour and tasting, then head to a winery for a botanical garden tour and wine tasting experience.
Duration:
6 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Lake Kournas - Have fun in Kourna’s Lake by riding a pedalo through the natural freshwater lake and admiring the beauty of nature
- Vryses - Olive oil factory tour and tasting
- Winery Dourakis - Wine tasting in a traditional family winery
- Lake Kournas - Have fun in Kourna’s Lake by riding a pedalo through the natural freshwater lake and admiring the beauty of nature
- Vryses - Olive oil factory tour and tasting
- Winery Dourakis - Wine tasting in a traditional family winery
What's Included
- Bottled water included
- Travel in style with VIP Mercedes V class or Jeep Renegade for smaller groups
- Complimentary snacks
- Experience olive and raki tasting
- Bottled water included
- Travel in style with VIP Mercedes V class or Jeep Renegade for smaller groups
- Complimentary snacks
- Experience olive and raki tasting
What's Not Included
- Lunch
- Tea and coffee
- Pedalo riding
- Wine tasting (14 euros per person for 5 wines)
- Lunch
- Tea and coffee
- Pedalo riding
- Wine tasting (14 euros per person for 5 wines)
Additional Information
Experience the uniqueness of Crete’s only freshwater lake, while unwinding at a traditional local taverna with some coffee. Savor the stunning local fauna by taking a pedalo ride or, for the audacious visitors, by swimming in the lake alongside ducks and turtles. Subsequently, tour an olive oil manufacturing unit, fully elucidating the process of…
Experience the uniqueness of Crete’s only freshwater lake, while unwinding at a traditional local taverna with some coffee. Savor the stunning local fauna by taking a pedalo ride or, for the audacious visitors, by swimming in the lake alongside ducks and turtles. Subsequently, tour an olive oil manufacturing unit, fully elucidating the process of production and offering tastings of local products. Rounding off the visit is a scenic winery nestled in a courtyard, featuring a botanical garden. Get a deep dive into the winemaking process, from the production to storage area, understanding all its intricacies. The cherry on top is a wine tasting session, where you can sample five local wines (and have lunch if you wish).
Location
Lake Kournas
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(31 Ratings)
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Scott_p
Oct 21, 2024
Wonderful Way to Experience Crete! - Very relaxing, enjoyable way to see and experience parts of Crete with limited time available in port from cruise. Angie was a super host explaining all about the island and allowing us as much or little time as desired at each stop. Also had nice local snack Angie shared with us after each stop. Lake was nice with some local shopping around it. Also got to see and walk out to Chapel in the Sea which was very cool. Olive farm and production location was extremely nice, enjoyable and low key. This was all topped off by a great trip to a beautiful winery with tour and tasting. Highly recommend this excursion and all the better if Angie can be your tour guide!
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Shoregirl64
Oct 15, 2024
Magical day with Our Cretan Local Tour Guide - I can’t recommend Angie the owner of Your Cretan Local highly enough! She is a local of course and really has a way of planning a perfect day for you! The day she took us to the Kanakis Olive Mill and Dourakis winery was the best day of our already fabulous trip on this magical island. Absolutely worth every penny, you won’t be disappointed.
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Inge_b
Oct 4, 2024
A perfect day - We very much enjoyed our tour day with Angie. On the way to Lake Kournas and during the entire day, she gave a lot of information about Crete, the culture, the go-to sights, the people living here, the every day life, and what kind of challenges there are on Crete. The tour was a good mixture of activities (‘bicycling’ on the lake spotting a turtle), history learning and knowledge on olive oil production, spiced up with small treats and quiz questions. The visit to Dourakis Winery for tasting and late lunch in beautiful surroundings ended a perfect day for us.
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454kaitlind
Sep 8, 2024
Incredible local Chania experience with the amazing Aggeliki! - Aggeliki was the most fun and creative tour guides we have ever had. She showed us some incredible locations (Lake Kournas where we paddle boated and saw native sea turtles, a local olive oil factory where we saw exactly how olive oil is made in this region and did a tasting, and finished with a five-wine tasting and lunch at a gorgeous winery). She took the best photos of us, and would never let us try to take selfies on our own. Now, we will always remember the great time we had through the photos she took of us. Highly recommend!
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Ive_c
Aug 20, 2024
Most fun day! - Angie is the best, Lake Kournas is gorgeous and Dourakis winery has the best food and wine. We had so much fun!
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Izea2024
Jul 25, 2024
Great Guide, Great Trip - I don’t even know where to start. We were greeted warmly and punctually. The entire trip was perfectly tailored to us and customized. Aggeliki spoke several languages, which allowed us to have great conversations and a lot of fun together. Along the way, there were small gifts that made every moment even more special. I can only recommend it to everyone and I’m already looking forward to the next time!
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Goplaces33598288918
Jun 24, 2024
Amazing olive oil and wine tasting tour by Angie! - This was such a great trip! Our guide Angie was amazing! She picked us up in the morning and explained to us the plan of the day. After visiting the beautiful Kournas Lake we went to the Kanakis olive oil farm. It was so informative! We finished off at the Dourakis Winery for wine tasting. After getting the incredible tour of how they make and store wine, we had the most delicious lunch out on their patio. I highly recommend it. Thank you so much Angie for such a wonderful day!
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The5gfamily
May 26, 2024
Wonderful tour! - Wonderful tour. Aggeliki makes you feel like friend or family when she drives you around. She knows the island and its history in great details and she always has a fun fact to share. Aggeliki has rare listenings skills and is eager to match your needs (we wanted to visit quiet spots and avoid crowd: she took us exactly to the right places). She also perfectly adjusted the planning according to the cloudy slighlty rainy weather that day. Aggeliki speaks perfect English and German. Her car is extremely comfortable and she drives very safely. Highly recommend Aggeliki Kourou VIP Tours.
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Jessica_g
May 13, 2024
BOOK ANGIE! - Angie was such an incredible guide. She was funny, friendly, patient, and fun! She was flexible to our needs and wants. Even though this was a half-day trip, she took us on the trip for the whole day. My family (mom and two aunts) found her hilarious and so welcoming. I would book her in a heartbeat for future trips to Crete. I would recommend her separately from the Viator website.
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Marvin_u
Apr 29, 2024
Olive oil and wine tasting in Crete—Kournas lake region - This is an excellent and must do tour when visiting Crete. We were met at the port of Souda by our tour guide, Angi, promptly the morning of the tour. She was a lovely and delightful young lady who was articulate and well-educated. She speaks five different languages and is well versed in the history of her country and the region that we toured. We visited a splendid winery and had lunch. The wine was excellent and the food was superb. We also visit a wonderful olive oil processing facility which very clean and staff was very friendly and accomadating. Kournas lake was beautiful and calming surrounded by the mountains. Angi did a fabulous job of taking care of us by surprising with small treats throughout the trip from her region. The van was very comfortable and she did an excellent job of showing the region, educating us on the culture. Overall, a great trip that I would highly recommend for anyone visiting Crete!
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