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Doctor Fish is an oasis on the center of Chania city and near to Venetian Harbor, where you can relax and revive yourself with a unique treatment that will keep your skin soft, healthy and smooth.
This popular beauty treatment uses Garra Rufa fish, a form carp, to gently remove dead skin. Their suction-cup are perfectly shaped for gently lifting dry skin away and it is completely painless as the fish have no teeth.
After a visit in Venetian Harbor and the Old Town of Chania, you can go to Doctor Fish - Fish Spa. There you can relax in a very nice furniture Fish spa with very helpful personal staff.
You must try this unique experience!!
Written May 1, 2011
Address: Karaoli & Dimitriou 26
Phone: 0030 6977591215
Website: www.doctor-fish.gr
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My guidebook said that this museum was nothing really special so I went there without much hope for anything interesting.
Anyway, we entered the building at 3:40 PM and approached cashier's desk intending to get myself a ticket. The gentleman behind the desk however let us in without a ticket as the museum was closing on 4 PM.
I found the exhibition quite interesting so I was really sorry that we only had 20 minutes or so to run through all the exhibitions.
Entrance fee EUR 2.00
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Address: Aktikoundourioti
Phone: +302821091875
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The museum was organized in the Venetian Monastery of St. Francis in 1963. The building previously served different purposes.
Presently, as its official website says, Museum's collections include:
- Minoan finds from the city of Chania
- Prehistoric finds from caves
- Minoan items from various sites in the prefecture
- Finds from graves of the Geometric period
- Finds from the city of Chania, dated to historic times
- Finds from other towns of the Chania prefecture
- Coins
- Jewellery (prehistoric and historic times)
- Sculpture, inscriptions, stelae
- Mosaics
This year I didn't visit the museum but I remember that I liked it very much during my previous visits to Chania.
Ticket: EUR 2.00
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Address: Chania 731 31
Phone: +30-28210-90334
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The monastary is a beautiful hike and the walk through the monastary is cool. The actual hike is wonderful. You go down, rest in St. John's Cave. Go down more (beware the stairs if it's raining) and you get to the old monastary, which is wonderfully historic and cool for kids too. If you go down the last leg, than you'll see the amazing little part of the Med at the bottom. The hike back up is a little harder, you don't want to do it if it's hot. That's miserable. Along the way, you'll see dead goats. Not for the squeamish and unfit.
Oh, and the picture on there isn't really it. Sorry, but I don't have any pics of it.
Written Nov 7, 2010
Address: Agios, other side of peninsula from Souda
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No I did not say "work" the streets, I said WALK...
Take your time when you wander the streets of the old town adjacent to the port, it is worth spending time to enjoy the colors and especially the small cafes. There is also a large number of small hotels/B&B's/rooms whose signs just might capture your attention. This is almost an artists quarter onto itself, we saw, and visited, lots of small artists shops, taking back home a few items.
Updated Jan 27, 2010
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If you are into shopping or just seeing the colors and enjoying the aromas of Chania, then the covered market is for you. We found local foods to sample and learned about a special type of bread that is made for the holidays, you can see it in the photo, it is the one that looks like a flower arrangement.
Written Jan 27, 2010
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The day we visited Chania there was a wonderfly refreshing sea breeze that we enjoyed during our walk....on the port you can enjoy many (yes MANY) restaurants facing the sea and of course there is the Hasan Pasha Mosque...not very impressive, but since Greece excells in Churches it was worth seeing. There are also available horse carriages if you wish to take a short canter around the port. We did find a market for ceramics adjacent to the Mosque, but the quality was very bad and the prices high in comparrison to others we had seen.
Updated Jan 27, 2010
this beatiful mosque, is a symbol of the Ottoman rule in Greece
currently, the muslims in Greece are near to the 1% of total population... they are mostly Turks and Pomaks (muslim Slavs)
the Turks live in the region of Thrace, but there are some Tyurks who live in other place of Greece
Written Oct 7, 2009
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Koum Kapi (that's Turkish for the Sand Gate) is an extended sand beach on the western side of the Old Venetian Harbour, and takes 5 minutes to get there, once in Sarpidonos Street.In that point, which is always windy and wavy, finish the Venetian Walls and give way to a sandy beach.Some people like to swim there, because is close and convenient, but I would not recommend it!!!
Along the sandy beach, there many nice cafes and bars, providing the ideal setting to sip your coffee or your drink.It is the "rendez-vous" point for thousand of people from Chania and not only! Tourists ignote that place and it is a pity!
Written Oct 5, 2009
Address: KOUM KAPI Neighbourhood, CHANIA
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The Chania Archaeological Museum has been housed in the church of the Venetian monastery of Aghios Franghiskos (St. Francis) since 1963.
The exhibits provide a picture through time of the history from the whole region of Chania from the Neolithic period down to Roman times.
The exhibition is divided chronologically into two sections, and subdivided into units bases on excavations.Finds from the Late Neolithic period and Bronze Age (Minoan period( are displayed in the east part of the Museum, and finds from the Iron Age (historical times) in the west.
Of special mention is the "Mitsotakis Collection", recently donated to the Greek State from the Mitsotakis family and it is housed on a special section of the Museum, actually the only covering the modern high standards.
Written Sep 17, 2009
Address: Chalidon 30, CHANIA
Phone: 0030-28210-90 334
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