This formerly remote village has benefitted in recent years from great improvements in its access by road, with consequent building developments, fortunately on the minor scale, to take advantage of the several excellent beaches.

This is a very remote part of Crete and if solitude isn't your thing you may not be too happy here. My contributors rented a two room apartment in Xerokambos overlooking the sea for less than £20 for the night, and this in August too, and would be very happy to return for a longer stay. The old road into the hamlet (from Zakros) has now been updated (in around 2009) and provides a good road in with some stunning views. The new metalled road which brings you from Ziros is as dramatic as you could wish. However, lacking crash barriers for most of the way, it is something of a white-knuckle ride for those of a nervous disposition. [2015: this is a very well-engineered road, designed to give expansive moorland-and-sea views and it really doesn't need barriers on its sweeping turns. The Zakros road has been improved too.]

The number of beaches seems to have resulted in some confusion and to make it more complicated Google Maps has different names for many beaches, so the opportunity has been taken to sort them out in order North to South, giving all their known names - there may yet be others! Where the exact location is unclear, reports have been put into the likeliest spot and anyone knowing better is welcome to swap them about or even to insert more.

Xerokambos

Xerokambos

4:03 am, May 16, 2025

16°C

overcast clouds

Humidity: 77 %

Pressure: 1011 mb

Wind: 8 mph

Wind Gust: 14 mph

Clouds: 100%

Visibility: 10 km

Sunrise: 6:10 am

Sunset: 8:12 pm

Weather from OpenWeatherMap

2011: only the secluded beaches could have been eligible for naturism, but all were used by at least one Greek family. The place is now very populated, due to asphalted roads and new houses.
Some Barefooters have noted that textile families seem to have a habit of arriving at unpredictable times. But if one wears her nudity with pride and a little attitude, chances are good for nude sunbathing, swimming and walking.

2018: there is a map of local beaches at the car park by the church.

2019: one contributor noted that overall proportion of naturist to textile on this stretch of coast appeared to changing and that naturism was on the rise. An unscientific estimate might be that across all of the beaches mentioned below including "textile", "naturist" and mixed that perhaps 25-30% of all bathers were naturist even when one considers those on the textile-only stretches.