Market sights in Lasithi Plateau
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Tzermiado
Tzermiado (dzer-mee-ah-do) is a sleepy town with dusty little streets lined with houses overgrown with vines and hanging plants. It's the largest and most important town on the Lasithi Plateau and has a fair amount of visitors from the tour buses going to the Dikteon Cave. A number of shops sell rugs and embroideries, although they're not of a particularly high quality. Of better quality are Lasithi's superior potatoes, which are celebrated in a three-day festival at the end of August in Tzermiado.
There is only one main road running through town that takes you past the town square, with a couple of ATMs and a post office.
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Psyhro
Psyhro (psi-hro)is the closest village to the Dikteon Cave. It has one main street with a few tavernas, and plenty of souvenir shops selling 'authentic' rugs and mats of largely non-Cretan origin. It is prettier than Tzermiado and makes for a better rest stop. Buses to Psyhro drop you at the end of the town where it's about a kilometre's walk uphill to the cave (the bus may take you all the way if lots of passengers are going there).
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