Location information

Chalasse or Sassalou

SASSALOS (Village) MYTHIMNA
  It is another gorge of Kissamos, wonderful to the nature lovers and mountaineers, located in an intact natural environment.
  It starts from the village of Sasalos in Kissamos at an altitude of 340 m (57 km from Chania), where you come to via the Chania-Nopigia-Koleni-Rokka-Sfakopigadi-Malathyro-Sasalo route.
  After walking for maximum 4 hours in the main portion of the gorge, you reach the village of Malathyro (at an altitude of 315m and a distance of 48 km from Chania). If you walk for one more hour you can also reach the village of Voulgaro in Kissamos, 7 km distant from the town of Kissamos.
This text is cited April 2003 from the Prefectural Committee for Tourism Promotion of Chania pamphlet.