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Wild Crete has been offering tours on Crete for ten years. Our travel seminars draw on our many years of living and working on Crete as well as our long-term relationships with the people you'll meet. Our goal is to give you an authentic experience that will enliven your senses and inspire you to live closer to the earth and her seasons.

Patricia Kyritsi Howell, Registered Herbalist (AHG), is a Greek American naturalist and medical herbalist. Her great grandmother was born on Crete and her family of origin lives on an island 50 miles north of Crete. She is author of Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians (2006) and director of the BotanoLogos School for Herbal Studies in the mountains of north Georgia (USA). Patricia continues a family tradition of savoring Greek cuisine; her father and grandfather were both accomplished chefs and she teaches classes on Cretan cuisine and the Mediterranean diet.

Robinette Kennedy, PhD, is a Clinical Anthropologist. She has lived and conducted research on Crete off and on since 1975, including a year spent as the first non-Greek person to live in the remote mountain village where she documented the powerful role of women’s friendships in a traditional culture. (Gender and Power in Rural Greece, Jill Dubisch, Ed.; Princeton University Press; 1986.) Her book in progress, Sacred Poses from Prehistoric Crete, brings to life a ritual practice embodied by figurines found in cemeteries, outdoor sanctuaries and sacred caves.