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By CRETE: Luxurious Private Tours and Taxi Transfers
Free cancellation available
Price is RM 1,168 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 5h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

    • Begin the day with a warm welcome and traditional hospitality
    • Visit the grandmother’s house to discover traditional cheese-making
    • Enjoy coffee, homemade lemonade and traditional cookies
    • Pick fresh vegetables and aromatic herbs for the day’s dishes
    • Visit the stable to meet the animals and experience milking

Activity location

    • Veggera
    • Chania Regional Unit, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Veggera
    • Chania Regional Unit, Greece

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Crete: Cretan Cooking Class with Farm Visit and Meal

  • Activity duration is 5 hours5h
    5h
  • English
Price details
RM 1,168.23 x 2 AdultsRM 2,336.46
Total
Price is RM 2,336.46
Until Fri, 23 Oct

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    English-speaking guide
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    Hands-on cooking session
  • Inclusions
    Visit to the stable
  • Inclusions
    Wine and cheese-tasting experience
  • Inclusions
    Full Cretan meal
  • Inclusions
    Live Cretan music
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    Complimentary coffee, lemonade, and tsikoudia (Cretan raki)
  • Inclusions
    All taxes, fees, and service charges included
  • Inclusions
    Intimate cooking experience with a small group (maximum 12 participants)
  • Inclusions
    Apron and cooking tools provided for your use
  • Inclusions
    Fresh, high-quality ingredients for every dish you prepare
  • Inclusions
    Special keepsakes to remember your experience
  • Exclusions
    Personal expenses
  • Exclusions
    Gratuity
  • Exclusions
    Transportation

Know before you book

    • Not allowed: Alcohol and drugs

What you can expect

    1. Welcome and Introduction (30 minutes)
      Begin the day with a warm welcome and traditional hospitality.
      Enjoy coffee, homemade lemonade and traditional cookies as we get to know each other.

    2. Garden Harvest (15 minutes)
      Take a stroll through our garden.
      Pick fresh vegetables and aromatic herbs for the day’s dishes.

    3. Hands-On Cooking (3 hours)
      Prepare Cretan classics like:
      Cretan Salad (tomato, cucumber, onion, pepper, olives, myzithra)
      Dako (traditional bread with tomato and cheese)
      Kalitsounia (cheese pies with myzithra and onion)
      Gemista (stuffed vegetables)
      Boureki (zucchini, potatoes and myzithra)
      Lamb with Potatoes (in a wood-fired oven)
      Enjoy freshly prepared dakakia as a mid-session snack.
      *Depending on the season and what’s fresh in our garden, our cooking class may include a few extra seasonal dishes.

    4. Farm Connection (1 hour)
      Visit the stable to meet the animals and experience milking.

    5. A Step into Tradition (30 minutes)
      Visit the grandmother’s house for a glimpse into traditional cheese-making. Sip on tsikoudia, savour shortbread, and learn about the family’s wine-making process at the patitiri (wine press).

    6. The Feast (1 hour)
      Return to the Veggera, where the table is set with all the dishes you’ve prepared. Enjoy a leisurely meal accompanied by Romeiko wine and lively conversation.

    7. Sweet Finale (30 minutes)
      Relish a traditional spoon dessert, like neratzaki or quince, paired with tsikoudia or racomelo.
      End the day with live Cretan mandolin music.

Location

Activity location

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    • Veggera
    • Chania Regional Unit, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Veggera
    • Chania Regional Unit, Greece