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Hora Sfakion

  Hora Sfakion is 72km from Chania on the Chania - Vrises - Hora Sfakion road, and 63km from Rethimnon on the Rethimnon - Armeni - Agios Vasilios - Rodakino - Sfakia road. Nowadays, Hora Sfakion is best known as the last stage of the excursion from the Samaria Gorge. Each year thousands of tourists arrive by boat from Agia Roumeli and enjoy a meal in one of the many pleasant restaurants before leaving by bus for Chania, Rethimnon or Iraklion. For those wishing to enjoy southern Crete longer, there are many hotels in the village.
Hora Sfakion is a small village in a cove between the mountains where the terrain is wild and harsh with the Lefka Ori towering behind.
After the loss of the Battle of Crete in 1941, 12,000 Allied troops evacuated the island through Hora Sfakion, after walking from north Crete through the Imbros Gorge; a plaque on the waterfront commemorates this event.
There are a number of excursions from Hora Sfakion: to Frangokastello, Anopolis and Aradena. Besides daily boats to Loutro, Agia Roumeli, Sougia, and Paleohora, there is a boat once a week to Gavdos.

This text is cited Nov 2002 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains images.

Crete TOURnet WebPage
• http://www.crete.tournet.gr/MainArea.jdp?ID=49 (5 img.)
Crete TOURnet WebPage
• http://www.crete.tournet.gr/Site.jdp?ID=736 (4 img.)

• http://www.interkriti.org/visits/sfakia.html (5 img.)
• http://www.plata.gr/sfakia/index.asp (3 img.)
• http://www.creteisland.gr/sfakia/index.html (6 img.)
• http://www.dilos.com/location/241 (1 img.)

• http://www.chora-sfakion.com