We decide to climb Mount Psiloritis, also known as Mount Ida, the highest point on Crete at 2456m.
First we drove higher into the mountains to the Nida Plateau and parked next to an unfinished ski resort building. The start of the walk, at 9.45am, was at about 1400m.
It was a steep rocky path just about all the way up many dry stream beds. There were a lot of large birds hovering around the sky, and lots of goats.
It was very quiet, though we did see a few more climbers nearer the top. One French couple were a bit lost and we were able to point out the route to the top. It took us 4 hours to get there, at the top is a chapel made of stones.
It was sunny there, but there was quite a lot of cloud around so we didn't get fantastic views.
The descent felt very long, and we decided against adding on a walk to the nearby Ideon Cave. We got down just after 5pm.
We drove home and showered, then later went out for dinner.
We went to the Arodamus restaurant which had good reviews. We had saganaki (fried cheese), fava bean cream, house salad with mountain greens, spaghetti with cheese crumbled on top, and lamb Antikristo (cooked the "shepherd's way"). It was all pretty good.
Late on, the waiter helped himself to some of our wine for a toast! All in good fun, they gave us free sweets and a liqueur.
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