Falassarna Nude Beach
23.8.08
This is on the west coast near Platanos, usually approached from Kastelli, as you come into for sign to Falasarni Beach Hotel. Follow long windy road which descends to long sandy beach. Goes to end of road and continue 300 mtrs on dirt track to parking. The area at the northern end of the beach was used by a few couples when we went in June, mainly Germans and no single men, but discretion was needed on Sundays due to Greek families. A report from June 2001 says you could strip in the dunes, or lay by the sea depending on your approach. Beach is sand with stones into sea at northern end, but 100 mtrs to south, sandy entry. Shallow for a long way, crystal clear water. There are several Tavernas, costume needed, chairs are there but you would need to carry them to your area. My contributors were comfortable with the area but it could get windy, there is no public transport.
Fallasarna looking north
There are different sandy beaches, most of them “belonging” to a restaurant and equipped with umbrellas and beds. The main beach is called the Big Beach or “Ipanema Beach” and is roughly divided into 3 parts. The most southern part is very deserted, with sand hills behind the beach and a dirt road behind the hills. As the hills are not that high everywhere, you can be seen from the road by the passing farmers. This part of the beach is sand, but it changes to pebbles in the water.
The middle part has a beach bar and umbrellas and beds. This part is sand, also in the water. It was relatively crowded and textile. The northern part is also sand out and in the water. It is separated from the middle part by some rocks and sand hills. On the beach are also some rocks which provide shadow. This part (about 150 m) was mostly occupied by nude people, although some people wore swimsuits. There exists a friendly co-existence. The majority of the people in that part were German and in the weekends some Greek people and families came and also stripped. My contributor, who visited in September 2001, can only recommend it! The only negative point is that most of the time there was a strong wind.
Earlier reports, such as one from June 1999, suggested the textile invasion is about to take over. However the Captain has received sufficient more recent reports to inspire confidence that there are still parts of the beach where one can happily strip, however this is clearly one of those beaches where the situation can change from day to day.
Some say the water and the sand are superb here, one contributor described it as the best he'd ever found all over Greece.
A correspondent who visited in 1997 thought this beach wonderful, a few umbrellas and beds, but loads of empty beach, and said if you go just around the southern point, there's no wind either. After finding this beach, they kept on going back!
A correspondent reporting from May 1999 describes this as "our favourite beach". Forget about the big beach, the small one at the cliffs and dunes is perfect. Peaceful - very few visitors.
A report from September 2002 confirms that the northern part was nudist. But one from July 2004 found no nudists at all on this part of the beach.
There may still be some possibilities in the sand dunes at the southern end. Turn left at the "Panorama"-sign, and further down to the beach, park in front of the sand dune and walk right over it. There's a little "canyon" where you go down in the water. Don't expect to find many nudists. Some 200-300 meters further south, at the lagoon-like beach there was no other people, making it possible to walk in the nude (May 2001).
A report arrived in June 2000 describes it as a beach that is not over run - a huge sweep of sand turquoise blue waters and plenty of scope for nude sunbathing amongst the dunes at the southern end of the beach.
Unfortunately, another report comes in suggesting that this report is exaggerated. A quarter of this beach is in full view of the dirt road at the back of the beach, another quarter is rocks rather than sand, and another is uncomfortably close to the fish taverna at the harbour (south end of the dirt road). There is really only one area of sand on the beach at which nudity is possible, and on the occasion of my contributor's visit (June 2000) both the cove at the headland and this part of the beach were occupied by textiles. It is a place for "get there first" enthusiasts.
A report from September 2002 says that between the two big umbrella-beaches there is a small beach used by nudists, but there are less people and you cannot go into the sea very easily there. But if you follow the paved road to the end and follow the path for another 500 metres you can go down a steep path where you can park. If you follow the path to the sea (50 metres) you can be naked as much as you like. There are some people from the big beach that will walk along the coast to a small harbour 100 metres away and to the "old Falassarna" archaeological site, but they don't seem to mind.
The most quiet place is at the northern end of the beach between the rocks, but there you cannot go into the sea very easily. If you can go further south for another 50 metres and go into the sea without any problem. My contributors laid between the rocks and went swimming there. Sometimes textile Greek people arrived, but they seemed to know about the nudists there, they were very friendly and did not object to them at all.
At the very southern end of the beach it is also very quiet. You can be nude there without seeing anybody and walk long distances. Sometimes a cucumber farmer will pass on the road behind the beach, but that is no problem.
One contributor who visited in 2003 says that of all the beaches he and his wife visited on Crete the most beautiful was Falassarna. It was sandy, not too much wind, beautiful clear water. It is not too far, very easy from Chania or from Rethymnon (nice new road). There are many tavernas and restaurants and not expensive (10 Euros for 2 persons for Greek salad + cold soda). Also easy to find a parking for your car. My contributor says "Go to Falassarna, you won't regret it!"
But another report, from early 2004, from one of my many Greek contributors, says it seems to that it is getting more difficult year by year to practise naturism here, mostly because more people find out about this beautiful place. At the end of July 2003 my contributor went there, to the 3rd bay (the 1st is the big one, the first to find on your left as reach Falassarna). He says, "At the weekends it is very hard to practise nudism, too many families especially Greeks with children, that do not like nudists. But during the other days it is possible. Last summer it was only about 30% naturists unfortunately. But I observed one thing: once the other people see more than one naturist, they begin to be curious and slowly, slowly they begin to throw off their swimsuits (one day in the morning it was only about 20% naturist, in the afternoon almost everyone was naked). That means that we have to insist and encourage the other people to feel the naturist experience in such a beautiful place."
A Barefooter who visited early July 2006 on a very hot Sunday with the family saw absolutely no-one on any part of the sandy beach nude. They searched out the northern rocky area and came across one lone sun-lover in the rocks. They returned to the last sandy cove before the main beach and stripped off to swim, snorkel and sunbathe. Large number of local families were present and my reporters did not enjoy the feeling that they were the only ones bare! They would give this beach (as it is beautiful with good swimming and snorkelling) another try on a weekday in the future otherwise would opt to go elsewhere.
A Barefoot couple who were there in June 2007 were the only naturists in the dunes to the eastern end of the beach but there were no problems with textiles in the area. Amusingly, there was a photo shoot going on around them of some attractive ladies in swimsuits - and there were my intrepid reporters, naked in the middle of it all.
Other Barefooters found a nice place between the middle and the southern part of the beach in summer 2007, near the rocks dividing these parts of the beach, near a steep path and steps, with which you can enter the middle part of the beach. This was a clothing optional beach, but the nudes were in majority. This was very picturesque part of the beach with lots of little coves, with very shallow water and also nice clean and tiny-grained sand. Unfortunately this part of the beach was mostly visited by single men (I could see only one pair except my reporters and one family with kids there, the rest were men) and there was some suspicious behaviour with mobile phone cameras among those waling by. How pathetic.
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