Local nature
Ancient Trees-the oldest organisms on Earth
Trees are among the oldest living organisms on Earth; some standing for more than five thousand years. Rising during the late Neolithic period, alongside humanity’s earliest civilisations, with the invention of writing, and the first metal tools and bronze weapons. Their first leaves unfurled from pods, cones, seeds, winged seeds, hard-shelled nuts, fruits, and spiny husks-each one a tiny vessel of growth. Seeds also vary astonishingly in size. The tiniest, like some orchid…
The mystical mountains of Vorizi, Spili, Rethymno, Crete
Before dawn reaches the rooftops of Spili village, Mount Vorizi is already awake- a silent colossus breathing mist into the morning air. Its rugged grey foothills, rough as ancient stones, cradle pockets of wild greenery. While its peaks dissolve into a shifting veil of clouds, here the mountain meets the sky, a bridge between the heavens and the earth. The Minoans were the first civilisation in Europe, a sophisticated society on the island…
Orchids and Wildflowers of Crete
On Crete, where mountains soar, and the land unfolds into wild gorges, sweeping plains and tranquil meadows, orchids emerge like delicate enchantments of colour and wonder. Seventy species bloom across the island, fourteen of them found nowhere else on earth, each carrying a whisper of myth. One ancient tale tells of Orchis, a handsome wild youth born of a nymph and satyr, who met his fate during the wild revelry of the Dionysus…
Earthy Spirit 