Does baroque architecture fit in with the Cretan landscape? Anyone who seen the twin-aisled church at Arkadi Monastery has no choice but to agree. This is the most famous historical monastery in Crete.
The one trip that every visitor - even those eminently unsuited to it - feels compelled to make is the hike down the Samaria gorge now a national park.
Although Malia is flirting intensely with mass tourism, in much the same way as Hersonissos, it is still less densely built up, aesthetically more attractive and has cleaner water.