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Route from Heraklion airport to Gerani highway exit
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You leave the airport range towards South and the highway.
Before the highway bridge, turn right and take the highway to Rethymnon (the sign points to "Iraklion").
A bare hour later you will arrive to the Cape of Scaleta.
The highway cuts through the cape's summit in a leftward bend, and the rocks on both sides form a gate.
Immediately afterwards opens on the right hand side the view down to the bay of Rethymnon with it's hotel suburbs and the 15 kms distant city with it's port and the fortress ("Fortezza").
After some kilometers, the highway becomes four-laned and ascends steeply, in order to bypass the city of Rethymnon.
From several viaducts you can see the town center, the fortress and the port down on the right hand side.
The highway then descends and underpasses the Old National Road through a short tunnel.
1.9 kms after the tunnel there is a BP gas station on the right hand side.
Then follows a right-hand bend.
The highway ascends for some meters and then enters a passage between the rocks, descending in a left-hand bend.
As soon as the passage opens there is 1.7 kms after the BP gas station on the right hand side the highway exit to Gerani, just before a right-hand bend.
Here you leave the highway and underpass it to the left.
Marios Kourmoulis