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Gastronomy Tour from Chania - Olive Oil, Wine, Cheese & Honey

By Fantasy Travel
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Free cancellation available
Price is €45 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 9h 10m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup

Overview

Embark on an unforgettable day tour that dives deep into the heart of Cretan culture through its rich and celebrated culinary traditions. Perfect for food lovers, culture seekers, and curious travellers, . Tour Highlights:
A Step Back in Time: Marvel at the ancient Olive Tree of Vouves, the oldest known olive tree in the world, estimated to be between 3,000 and 5,000 years old.
Local Bakery Visit: Witness the art of traditional Cretan baking first-hand. See how rusks, breads, and other savoury treats are made, and savour their irresistible flavours.
Olive Grove & Honey Experience: Stroll among ancient olive trees and learn the fascinating storey behind Crete’s prized olives and golden honey.
Cheese Factory: Step inside a renowned, multi-awarded cheese factory. If cheese production is underway, observe the process;
Family-Owned Winery Tour: Explore the Pnevmatikakis Winery, where you'll discover the secrets of Cretan winemaking. Taste a variety of celebrated local wines!

Activity location

  • The Monumental Olive Tree of Vouves
    • Vouves, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Bus Stop Agora
    • Sofoklis Venizelos Square
    • 731 32, Chania, Greece

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Gastronomy Tour from Chania - Olive Oil, Wine, Cheese & Honey
  • Activity duration is 9 hours and 10 minutes9h 10m
    9h 10m
  • English

Pickup included

Language options: English
Starting time: 08:00
Price details
€45.00 x 1 Adult€45.00
Total
Price is €45.00
Until Thu, 2 Apr

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Pick-up/Drop-Off
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Superior Wine tasting - 8 wines
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Air-Conditioned Luxury Bus
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Olive Oil, Cheese, Honey Tasting
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Full Liability Insurance
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Guiding
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Personal expenses, extra drinks or meals

Know before you book

  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Total Duration Includes Travel Time
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

The Monumental Olive Tree of Vouves

  • 3m
In the village of Ano Vouves, you can admire the oldest recorded olive tree in the world, proclaimed as a natural monument. Although scientists can not be absolutely sure, its age is estimated between 3000 and 5000 years and still remains alive, fructifying until today. It had as a base a wild olive tree, and then became domesticated by humans via Tsounati variety. Its bole, chiselled by time as a sculpture, has a circumference of 12.5 metres and a diameter of 4.6 metres

Kissamos

  • 20m
Get the chance to see from extremely close a cheese factory and check the most delicious graviera cheese that is made with local ingredients from the cretan nature. Moreover, enter a traditional bakery that is producing daily local delicacies suck as cretan rusks, the traditional cretan koulouri and many more.

"Idiosmos" Extra Virgin Olive Oil & Honey Tour & Taste

  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
Visit a traditional olive mill, enter the olive barns of the Papatzanakis Family and get a close look of the olive trees as well as of the factory where olive oil is extracted with the most modern methods (cold extraction). Moreover, get a close look of the honeycombs and check how traditional honey is made. In the end of the tour, get the chance to taste 8 varieties of Honey and the most amazing extra virgin olive oil that you have tasted, alongside with local delicacies such as graviera cheese, baby tomatoes, cretan rusk, olives etc.

Pnevmatikakis Winery

  • 1h 15m
  • Admission ticket included
An amazing winery that is producing a variety of local wines and has been awarded with multiple awards at international contests. In this tour, you will have the chance to check the wine barns and also tour around the vineyard and the wine cellar in order to learn about the way this delicious wine is made. In the end of the tour, you will have the chance to taste approximately 8 varieties of awarded wine from the cretan nature, produces proudly by pnevmatikakis family.

Location

Activity location

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    The Monumental Olive Tree of Vouves
    • Vouves, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Bus Stop Agora
    • Sofoklis Venizelos Square
    • 731 32, Chania, Greece

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