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 Route from Iraklion airport
Route from Hania airport
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Route from Iraklion airport
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You leave the airport range (1) towards South and the highway. Before the highway bridge, turn right and take the highway to Rethymnon (2) (the sign points to "Iraklion").
A bare hour later you will arrive to the Cape of Scaleta. The highway cuts through the cape's summit in a leftward bend, and the rocks on both sides form a gate (3).
Immediately afterwards opens on the right hand side the view down to the bay of Rethymnon with it's hotel suburbs and the 15 kms distant city with it's port and the fortress (4).
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Continue on the motorway until you find a solitary AVIN gas station (5) on the left side: From here, it is the next junction.
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A short way after the AVIN gas station (1) the junction to Platanias and Arkadi (2) opens, first on the left and then on the right hand side.
Leave the motorway and then turn right around a peak bend marked by a kiosk, to enter the Old National Road (3).
Short before the road exits the village of Platanias, you will find the Leoniki Hotels (x) on the right hand side.
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Route from Hania airport
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You leave the airport range (1), pass the gas station and after approx. 300 meters turn left. After another 1,700 meters turn right and on the road to Hania pass the villages of Aroni (2) and Pithari (3).
By the exit of Pithari, the road ascends and then forks. Here you leave the road to Hania and take the left branch to Souda and Rethymnon.
After a short way the view opens down to the bay. The road winds down the slope and finally arrives few meters above sea level.
You enter Souda and continue to the traffic lights (4). Here you first turn right, and after a short distance turn left to enter the wide road to the highway.
After crossing under the highway, turn left (5) and enter the highway in the direction of Rethymnon. The highway then changes into a two-lane motorway leading you to the suburbs of Rethymnon (6).
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From here, the highway has four lanes and after an underpass ascends to surround the city of Rethymnon in a wide curve. Down on the left you can see the town, the port, and the fortress (7). Finally the highway descends again, and short before a junction becomes two-laned (8).
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After that junction (1) the motorway runs mostly flat and passes some bridges. In this area it is framed by crash barriers (2). Just behind that part, the junction to Arkadi and Platanias opens first on the left and then on the right side of the motorway.
Drive slowly - it has a hairpin bend and ascends steeply for some meters, and from all sides other vehicles may come all of them having right of way.
The ascent runs into the road to Arkadi. You will however turn right (3) and follow the bend to cross under the motorway, and arrive to the junction to the Old National Road, just opposite to a BP gas station (4).
Turn right and follow the Old National Road through the village of Platanias. You will find the Leoniki Hotels (x) to your right hand, some meters before the road exits the village.
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