Knossos, Heraklion Crete

Today we drove out to Knossos, the ancient palace of King Minos. It was incredibly hot, but wandering through ruins and seeing frescoes from over 5000 years ago was pretty amazing! Some of the neat things we discovered....the entire palace was a labrynth so that invading forces would have difficulty finding the King. This, along with the jumping bull games led to the Greek myth about Theseus and the Minotaur in the labrynth. They also had water pipes and indoor plumbing! The urns were bigger than us and were filled with Olive oil as offerings for their Gods.
From Knossos, we went to the airport an took our short flight to Athens. Good by Crete - we will miss you!