Top 9 Horseback Riding Tours in Chania Prefecture, Crete

Experience the incredible and unique beauty of Paleochora from the back of a horse. Our primary objective is for you to have a memorable experience while visiting Paleochora.

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IMable is a private tour agency, which offers visitors the most reliability, efficiency and excellent service to travel around Crete. Travel with us to main cities and traditional villages, dine in local taverns, visit family-owned olive oil mills, taste wine of local wineries, wonder around lush nature and discover Crete’s hidden gems.

Deres Horse Riding Center has been welcoming horse riders and nature lovers for over thirty years. It is a peaceful and eco-friendly environment among scenic hills and green valleys in the outskirts of Chania, on the island of Crete in Greece. We look forward to your visit. We offer horseriding tours in nature for all levels of riders and visitors can also enjoy a refreshement or coffee in our coffee shop. Our fifteen horses are calm and well taken care off and will be happy to meet our guests. We organize private tours as well as special events (birthdays, anniversaries and much more) Feel free to contact us, It will be our pleasure to meeting you.

Specialists in outdoor riding in Kavros, West-Crete., we offer a range of different rides, catering for all abilities. Kids and novice riders can enjoy our good natured horses while riding through Crete’s beautiful countryside and taking in the scenery. More advanced riders can go for an exciting beach ride on Crete's longest sandy beach (4 Km, one way), or take a magnificent trail ride (options ranging from 2 hour treks to fully catered multiple days riding holidays). We also provide rides which include the unique experience of swimming with horses (weather permitting). To ensure everybody's fun and safety we organise rides into beginners, intermediate and advanced levels. Rides take place in the mornings and evenings only. Reservations always needed. Thank you!

The Horse Riding Club of Chania opened its gates in 2012 in the beautiful mountain village of Malaxa just 15 minutes from the center of Chania town. Its 10 acres of space are used for horseback riding lessons and its stone build stables and paddocks. We have 17 horses, three of which are ponies. There is a stableman who cares for all horses and ensures the cleanliness of our stables. The Horse Riding Club of Chania, is addressed to all those who love animals, want to have a good physical condition and who are in need to find a special relaxation in a fun environment. We like to see people make contact with this beautiful animal, and our aim is to help them understand the horse and how to communicate with it. We have created an environment where athletes and people participating it, see it as a hobby and can spend their time creatively while horseback riding, or training if they are athletes, grooming the horses, and participating in some theoretical courses. Our purpose is to teach people what sports' riding is and what sectors it has: (Dressage, show Jumping, Eventing - triathlon). We have already established a very good athletic team that participates in Pancretan, Panhellenic and Balkan competitions and of course we are constantly in search for new athletes. The age at which this hobby / sport is addressed to, is for children from 3-18 years and adults from 19-72 years. We have also developed the hippotherapy or otherwise therapeutic horseback riding which offers disabled people a way of communication and to increase their balance. Combining all of the above, our Horse Back Riding Center welcomes schools, tourist trips, special schools, even events and parties. PROGRAMS / SERVICES The services offered are the riding lessons that may be of 10 minutes (it usually refers to small children and their first contact with a horse) twenty minutes (involving people of any age at their first lessons, who are not yet familiar with the horse) and 45 minutes (it involves people advanced at horseback riding and our athletes). The Horse Riding Club of Chania also gives the possibility to horse owners to rent one of our stables on a monthly basis. Horse stabling barn rental service. In this case the horse stays with us and the price includes the cleaning of the box, the horse's food and the owner's workouts. For those who want to further engage with the horseback riding but do not have their own horse, we can rent them on a monthly basis, a horse that we will recommend for their needs, and which they will only ride. There are also special price course packages such as of 5, 8 or 12 courses which are only 45 minutes and 20 minutes. We can also fix up groups for walks outside the premises, provided the rider has good riding skills. The walks are around the area in the beautiful nature that surrounds us.