Palm Beach Vai

Local nameΠαραλία του Βάι
LocationGreece

The palm beach of Vai is one of the largest attractions of the Mediterranean island of Crete. It features the largest natural palm forest in Europe, made up of Cretan date palm.

For tourism Vai was discovered at the beginning of the 1970s by Richard White and friends from North London, Belfast and Bavaria, at the end of that decade it was popularised by the last hippies who fled the hot-spots Matala and Preveli. At the beginning of the 1980s Vai was full of backpacker tourists from the whole world, leading to a mixture of chaotic campground and garbage dump. Vai was enclosed and declared as a protected area. The unique forest recovered, the beach became clean.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vai_(Crete)

Address 72300, Greece

Coordinates 35°15'16.826" N 26°15'54.06" E

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