Crete, GR

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Water Bodyocean
Sand Typesand
CountryGR
RegionCrete

Getting There

Nearest CityPalekastro6.4 km
Airport (JSH)Sitia Airport15.5 km

Safety & Conditions

Water Quality1 - excellent
Shark Incidents0recorded

Sand & Geology

Vai Palm Forest, or more officially Vai Aesthetic Forest, contains several thousand palm trees in a valley perpendicular to the beach and running down to it.

Predicted regional compositionlithic-rich (volcanic/collisional terrane)
Q 53%
L 44%
QuartzFeldsparLithic

Modelled from GloPrSM v1.0.0 (IJ_QFL). Calibrated on river sand, not measured beach samples — treat as a regional signal, not a sand assay.

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Vai Beach on northeastern Crete represents one of the Mediterranean's most visually distinctive coastal destinations—a sweep of golden sand backed by thousands of date palms that s...

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