Agenda Zorbas Island Crete

Holiday Crete 2025 agenda – Agenda Zorbas Island, Crete – Season 2025: Every year we have an extensive excursion programme on Crete with several regular excursions as well as new ones. You are probably curious to know what activities we will organise at Zorbas Island in the coming season. In this agenda for Crete, we give an overview of some activities that we think will interest you. Especially special excursions and activities we will highlight here. By this we mean, for example, multi-day excursions such as cooking weeks and hiking weeks in Crete. You can also find more information about new excursions that we have added to our programme.

Walking weeks are always available on request.

Zorbas Island is open from 4-5 April till 18 November 2025

03 March 2025: Start of the orthodox lent (Καθαρά Δευτέρα). Offical holiday in Greece.

25 March 2025: Celebration of the Greek Revolution (Εικοστή Πέμπτη Μαρτιου). Offical holiday in Greece.

E4 walk – Kato Zakros (South-East Crete)

7 – 10 April 2025 – Kato Zakros E4 week: A top hiking week from the beautiful village of Kato Zakros in the far south-east of Crete. Kato Zakros is a small Greek village by the sea enclosed by gorges and mountains in the hinterland. Actually the start or end point of the E4 in Crete.

This E4 hike consists of 4 walks. Day 1: departure early in the morning through the Pefki gorge (10 km) in south-east Crete. After the hike, we drive to Kato Zakros where we stay for 3 nights. Day 2: Chochlakies gorge (15 km) and visit Pelakita cave, a long walking day. Day 3: Gorge walk in Xerokampos (12 km). Via the flamingo beach, we walk into the gorge. On the fourth day, we walk the Death Valley (9-10km). Then we pack up and drive back to Zorbas via the famous palm beach of Vai. Read more

12 to 19 April 2025 – Flower walks – Flowers in Crete

Walking and flowers on Crete (Greece): In the spring, the mountains are like a sea of flowers. Eveywhere are growing wild flowers. During our hikes on Crete we always see a lot of different flowers and plants. Each season you can smell the lovely scent of wild growing flowers on Crete. Read more

Greek cooking holiday

14 to 17 April 2025 – Cooking Week – Crete cooking course & Greek cooking workshop (4 days, including an excursion Unknown Crete)

Greek cooking holiday: A full week cooking holiday in Crete, enjoying the outdoors. Cooking workshop in Crete, cooking in olive oil, cooking class in Crete, food recognition, outdoor cooking. We give you an impression of a cooking holiday in Crete on this page. The cooking workshops take place in our own olive field and once at Zorbas by the sea. We also visit a local market. There is also 1 day excursion Unknown Crete. On this page you can read more about cooking holidays: read more

18 April to 10 May 2025 – May holidays Greece – May holidays in Crete

To Greece in the May holidays: Spring on Crete, Greece is particularly beautiful. Many flowers and herbs bloom in the mountains and Crete has a lovely temperature in spring. This year, Greek Easter (20 April) is during the holidays. Various excursions are possible such as Unknown Crete, hiking, sailing, boat trips, jeep safaris and quad tours. Read more.

Easter in Greece

18 to 20 April 2025 – Greek Easter

In 2025 Greek Easter and Catholic Easter are on the same date!

From Friday, 18 April, we will have the Easter programme:

On Friday (18 April 2025) we will do a tour through the interior of Crete with many Easter activities, in non-touristy areas. We will go to a village where the crucifixion of Christ is recreated. This is a Greek ritual for Easter and symbolises Christ’s suffering on the cross.

In the evening, join us in the mountain village of Anopolis where an Easter procession takes place. The villagers walk from the church behind the symbolic tomb of Christ through the village streets.

we collect the holy fire which is spread by the priest and those present. At midnight, there are fireworks and a Judas doll is burned.

On Sunday 20 April (Easter Sunday), we have an elaborate Greek Easter BBQ at the end of the afternoon with music. Read more

E4 walk – Phoenix (South-West Crete)

13 – 16 May 2025 – E4 walk – Walk from Chora Sfakia to Loutro, Ag. Ioannis Gorge, Aer Lingus Gorge, Aradena Gorge and gorge of Frangokastello

Painting workshop on Crete

26 to 30 May 2025 – Painting workshop on Crete

Painting workshop on Crete, Greece: this week, we will organise a special 5-day painting workshop open to all, with or without painting experience.

During this workshop, we will create different paintings: intuitive portraits, nature and villages. There will be sketching with charcoal and painting with acrylic paint. And this special workshop will be given by artist Lies Apon.

At the end of the week, there will be an exhibition at Zorbas of all the work of the participants.

It will be a week full of cultural Crete and nature visiting the real bits of Crete with some painting workshops in our own olive grove. Read more

9 to 12 June 2025 – Cooking Week – Crete cooking course & Greek cooking workshop (4 days, including an excursion Unknown Crete)

Jeep safari

17 and 18 June 2025: a 2-day jeep safari to South-Crete where we spend the night. This way we see a lot of Crete, driving a lot off-road and sometimes on the asphalt.

6 to 9 October 2025: Island hopping from Crete to Ios.

A 4-day trip to Ios. On Ios, we do several different trips. We visit the island of Sikinos and go by boat around Folegandros.

On day 1 we go with the ferry from Heraklio, via Santorini to Ios. Here we stay in a luxuruous villa. We visit Ios-town before we head to the villa.

On day 2 we explore the island of Ios.

Day 3: we make a boat trip to the island of Sikinos and go around Folegandros. At the end of the day we go back to Ios.

On the last day we visit Ios-town again before we go back to Crete.

Multiple day excursions

20 to 23 October 2025 – Cooking Week – Crete cooking course & Greek cooking workshop (4 days, including an excursion Unknown Crete)

27 to 30 October – 4 days Unknown Crete Chania

We stay in a luxuruous villa near Chania-town.

Day 1: we leave around 6 am from Zorbas to go to West-Crete. We drive through the inland to Perivolia where we stay the next days.

Day 2: visit to Paleochora and Kandanos. We visit these 2 villages in Southwest-Crete.

Day 3: we leave early to take the boat to Balos, from Kissamos. We go past the uttermost peninsula of Crete. We see the fortress island Gramvousa, where the Barbarossa fortress is located.

Day 4: we leave Chania again. We visit either the botanical gardens of Crete or we go to Chania-town. We leave early to be ahead of the crowds. After this we drive back to Zorbas.

3 to 6 November 2025 – E4 walk – Walks around Kato Zakros

Harvesting olives on Crete

10 November 2025 – Start of the olive harvest

The time of olive harvesting in Crete has come again. From early November until the end of January, olives are taken from the trees all over the island for olive oil production. Crete is known for its high quality olive oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil. At Zorbas Island, we use olive oil for all our dishes, which we produce ourselves every year. So it’s time again to put on work clothes and go out into the country with the whole Zorbas team. Guests help too! Want to harvest olives with us sometime? Please send us an email: zorbasisland@gmail.com.

More information

Excursions on Crete 2025: The above agenda for Crete is only a small example of what can be done on Crete. Our range of excursions that we organize is very extensive. That way we can offer everyone something nice to do. On top of that, if you have special wishes, you can always contact us. We would like to know this well in advance though, so that we can adapt our excursion program. Just send us an email before you come to Crete on holiday.

Holiday information Crete Zorbas Island: For renting apartments and holiday homes, all your excursions and cheap flights to Crete. If you are looking for apartment rental and accommodation on Crete, you have come to the right place. We have a variety of apartments, suitable for families, singles, couples or more people travelling together. We can help you to organize your holiday on Crete Greece to your wishes. An active outdoor vacation, active holidays, a beach holiday, or a combination of both we can all realize for you.

In case you like more information, please send an email to zorbasisland@gmail.com