First off, thanks to Sarah G. for being my only official follower. Either she has read each post over 10 times or the rest of you are just reading but not becoming official followers.
This morning we got to sleep in until 7:30!!! We had breakfast at the hotel that consisted
of an amazing spread! Lots of fresh
fruit and a mini chocolate croissant!
Then we headed off to the Heraklio Museum. Our professor pointed out that although the
museum was small, it housed some of the best finds, the finds that you see in
textbooks and discuss in classes….
After the museum we headed to the site of Malia where the
French are excavating. They haven’t been
able to identify the name of the site so it is named after a nearby town. Dr.
Maud Devolder took us around the site that was home to another Minoan palace.
Next week headed to Aghios Nikolaos for lunch along a little
harbor on the northern coast of Crete. I
also finally bought some stamps for postcards (DISCLAIMER: Only children get
postcards from me. So if you want a
postcard, have a child. However, if you
only have a child in order to receive postcards, you probably shouldn’t be
raising kids.)
From there we drove to Mochlos. The town is located on a great harbor on
northern Crete. The site itself is situated
on an island! As a result of this we
took a tiny boat over (some people swam) to the site. The site is currently being excavated (they
had been digging that day!) and so we got a great tour by Jonathan Flood who is
the current Field Director of the site.
At the site they have also discovered some ash from the volcanic
explosion on Thera and we got to touch an itsy bitsy tiny weeny portion of that
which was pretty cool.
The site is located on this island
Altar at Mochlos
The site is located on this island
Altar at Mochlos
“Now” we’re on a bus winding through mountains toward Siteia
where we’ll be saying for two nights.
Tomorrow we’re hiking the Gorge of the Dead. Hmmmm…. Hopefully you’ll hear from me
tomorrow
Okay, it’s tomorrow (could get on line last night).
I survived the hike into the Gorge of the Dead (named so
because they are some Minoan burial sites there) this morning. It was only 4 km so not that bad at all (although
it was pretty hot). Before the gorge we headed to the archaeological
museum in town at 8:30 to check out some of the artifacts.
From there we headed to the ancient Minoan Palace of Zakros
and walked around there learning about the history and the excavation of the
site.
Kiln at the Zakros palace
After that we walked a few minutes into the town of Kato
Zakros for lunch and a swim. Lunch was
delicious!! All the fruits and
vegetables came from the huge garden behind the restaurant. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to eat
another US tomato after the ones here!!
Then I walked for a bit in the water before we headed back to Siteia.
We got back really early (4:30) because the monastery we
were suppose to go to was closed for siesta.
Instead we got our first early day (done before 6:30!!) and got the head
to the beach in Siteia (and I also got time to upload more pics!)
Tomorrow evening we take the overnight ferry back to the
mainland (unless I conveniently get “lost” on Crete and have to stay here!).
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