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Balos

Aug 2026

A bus from Chania to Kissamos and the boat out from there, with a guy from the US I'd met in Athens. The lagoon is one of the most impressive things I have ever seen, and half of Crete had come to see it with me, so go in October. We stopped at a Venetian fortress on a small island after, and then the boat played Greek music all the way home, loud enough that sleeping after a day in the sun was not an option.

Cover photo of Balos
Rocky headland dropping straight into blue sea with flat islands on the horizon, seen from the water near Balos
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Dry scrubby plateau with a long flat rocky island offshore in dark blue sea, north-west Crete
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Rugged mountain and a low rocky peninsula across a shallow reef-marked lagoon at Balos
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Rocky scrubland with a rounded boulder, glittering sea and a hazy island on the horizon near Balos
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White excursion boat passing on dark blue sea, framed by a ferry's red funnel with ladder rungs and a canvas awning
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Pale shallow lagoon, sand bar, anchored boats and a crowded beach seen from a rocky cliff path above Balos
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Wide view over the bay at Balos with rocky hills, a distant strip of beach and boat wakes on the water
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Rippling green shallow water seen through an oval opening in a white boat's side panel, blue deck below
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