The Village is at 12 km from the city of IERAPETRA, which offers all facilities and activities of a big city (shops, supermarkets, banks, doctors, water front esplanade with restaurants and cafes, archaeological Collection, organized beach etc), while the cosmopolitan city of AGIOS NICOLAOS (capital of the prefecture) is just at 20 km (30 min drive).
Archaeological sites, Byzantine and Venetian monuments, churches and chapels and natural places of outstanding beauty are abundant in this part of Crete, while swimming to small gulfs or to all sand, blue flag, beaches is at 20min distance (like Agia Galini, Agia Fotia, Ferma, Psaropoula, Koutsounari etc.