one of the endless turns in the back, Lakki, the well-known captain-village looks like it is pinned on the hill. It touches the slope as if it protects the great church that is in its center. This village used to be the home-land of important fighters of the Cretan Freedom. This is the home land of Chadjimichalis Giannaris, leader of the county of Kydonia from 1866 up to 1898. His grave is in Omalos, next to his country house. The plateau is visible about 10 kilometers after Lakki. As it is protected by the summits, it completes the picture and an unprecedented beauty. On the plateau where used to be a lake, cereals and various vegetables are cultivated today. Hotels and taverns familiarized with the environment, they welcome foreigners and they take care for their comfortable accommodation. The road to Xyloskalo reaches and ends at about 4 km after the start of the plateau. All the legends that human imagination has been creating for centuries for this magnificent creation of the nature come to mind and
haunt your thoughts. Enormous Gigilos on the opposite, the high trees everywhere hooked on the rooks in an unnatural hug, the morning mist as if the place is haunted, the sound of water, the singing birds, the eerie brusque whisper of leaves, breaths that become shorter; they all excite you. Everything is great in this place; Rare plants. Unprecedented fauna and flora and a drop of eternity that touches you in this gorge of Chania. On the foothills of the first great downhill of the rocks, at the right hand you can meet Linoselli. In this spring with crystal water, Zeus had been taking his bath. In the background on the left, the naked summits of the mountains appear. One of them, Pachnes is the highest summit of Crete. After almost 30 minutes of downhilling, you meet Neroutsiko spring. This is the spring that gods and semigods drank water. Nowadays, its crystal clear water quenches the thirst of thousands of those who are passing by. This spring has become the center of bloody conflicts in the past. The most