{"id":1519,"date":"2020-05-28T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T06:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/e4\/"},"modified":"2020-05-29T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T06:41:45","slug":"e4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/en\/e4\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Rouvas Wood – Giristi – Prinos – Asites"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This part of the\u00a0E4 trail\u00a0connects the core of\u00a0Rouvas Wood\u00a0to the east outskirts of\u00a0Psiloritis\u00a0mount and gives its position to the next trail crossing the fertile valleys of\u00a0Heraklion prefecture<\/em>. It is quite tiring, as it ascends from altitude 950m to 1779m and then descends to 490m. The route offers a great experience of the oak wooded\u00a0forest of Rouvas, the bare peaks of east Priloritis and, if you are lucky, a nice stay in the\u00a0shelter of Prinos.<\/p>\n

We start our course from the heart of the\u00a0forest of Rouvas\u00a0(altitude 950m) and the\u00a0church of St John<\/em>, which is anyway one of the nicest places in Crete for a daily break. Benches, spring water and a beautiful scenery with high trees compose the setting here. We follow the dirt road that heads up to meet the road coming from\u00a0Nida\u00a0to\u00a0Gergeri<\/em>. After\u00a04.5 km course, we meet the junction next to some round stone huts (mitata) and here we have to turn left (towards Nida).\u00a0<\/p>\n

After about 2200m along the main dirt road we turn right to a small dirt road that ends soon. We continue the ascent on the west slope of the peak\u00a0Gyristi<\/em>, among oaks and shrubs.\u00a0The path is not very clear, so we have to look for the E4 signs and red marks. After about one hour of ascent we arrive at an altitude of 1620 m., north of summit\u00a0Gyristi<\/em>\u00a0(1774 m.). From this point we have spectacular views to Heraklion and the valley of\u00a0Rouvas Wood.<\/p>\n

From here we start descending to\u00a0Prinos shelter, next to\u00a0the spring of the area.\u00a0Prinos<\/em>\u00a0is being managed by the\u00a0Mountaineering club of Heraklion<\/em>\u00a0and is a nice place to stay overnight. From Prinos\u00a0we follow the downhill path and we soon meet a dirt road, which runs to village\u00a0Asites<\/em>\u00a0(altitude 490m). At the end of the dirt road we meet the main paved road to\u00a0Asites<\/em>, that comes by the monastery of\u00a0Saint George Gorgolainis, one of the oldest in Crete.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Trail Rouvas Wood – Giristi – Prinos – Asites – Travel Guide for Island Crete, Greece cretanbeaches.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Route to Rouva Forest This part of the\u00a0E4 trail\u00a0connects the core of\u00a0Rouvas Wood\u00a0to the east outskirts of\u00a0Psiloritis\u00a0mount and gives its position to the next trail crossing the fertile valleys of\u00a0Heraklion prefecture. It is quite tiring, as it ascends from altitude 950m to 1779m and then descends to 490m. The route offers a great experience of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sights-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earino.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}