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Boat trips are available from many coastal resorts nearby, our trip from Elounda took 20 mins each way and cost 10 euros per person, (adults).
Getting off the boat you enter the island via an arch where the lepers would have entered knowing that they would never leave again.
The island has a few rooms with boards up showing old photographs and giving an account of the Island's history. Most of the island is ruined buildings and little paths and nooks and crannies to explore.
It is not an easy walk to the top of the island, the paths are rugged and steep in places although the path around the edge of the island is much easier to manage, being flat and for most part, paved.
You really should take your own refreshments and especially drinks, there is nowhere to buy anything on the island itself. There isn't much shade and the climb will make you very hot.
There are black flags flying on the top of the hill, not sure what they signified but standing by them was quite emotive and eerie.
I thought that it was well worth the cost of the trip and would certainly recommend anyone to visit. They are really missing a trick though not selling so much as an ice-cream on there!
The boat cost E10 each but well worth it - go for the biggest boat, not only do you have room to move around but it has an English speaking guide who is very knowledgable on Spinalonga.
It costs E2 to enter the island.
The boat leaves Aghios Nikolaos harbour every day at 12.30 & arrives back 4.45/5pm
N.B. If staying at Sissi get the public bus by the little chapel at 9am fare = E3.10
half an hour on the bus (if you go on a wednesday you can see the enormous market before heading down to the pretty little harbour - book your ticket 1st before going for a coffee by the waterside) then when you return make sure you get to the bus station straight away as the only bus directly back to Sissi leaves at 5.30. A good day out.
Boats leave from Plaka and cost 8 euro return and take 10 mins leaving every 30 - 40 minutes depending on when the boat operator considers this to be his best time (usually with a boat full of people, they max profits this way)!
An amazing place, great views from the top, and an incredible history, loved it, but due to the massess of people from the tour busses we had to leave, it was almost clostraphobic at times.
There is a 2 euro,entrance fee
The Venetian fortress is in ruins but it is still worth a visit , ironically having held out against a Turkish invasion it later became a refuge for the Ottamans against reprisals when their occupation of Crete came to an end.
It is most known now as a former leper colony made famous in Victoria Hislop's novel and as you enter the stone arch into the lepers street Dantes "abandon all hope ye who enter here " springs to mind and if not actually hell it must have been purgatory for those people ripped from their families to be exiled here .
With the usual Greek laissez faire attitude you can clamber around the island and all the ruins including some parts that are mountain goat territory and which would have UK Health and Saftey official having a fit of the vapours , it is of course all the better for this !
There is also an exhibit for the British seaplane service that used to stop over in the bay on it's way to India in the days of the BritishRaj before intercontinenta l jet travel of course which is interesting and unexpected.
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