Now we drove to Phaistos. Ruins, ruins. Boy, this island is a mess of old buildings.
Before arriving, we passed a town where the main road was blocked by the Saturday market. We got totally lost and eventually made a lucky turn, ended up at a BP station where they told us we were only 6 kilometers from our destination. It was a good thing for us that the station attendant did not decide to play an April Fools joke on us with his directions. This site is the second largest on Crete and dates back to the 17th century BC. It has been destroyed and rebuilt various times in BC. The city is still being actively excavated and some areas were off limits to us. Foundations of houses in this area date back to the Neolithic age. They were first excavated in 1900. Unlike Knossos, no recreation of buildings has been attempted. The site is where the snake goddess statue was found and is now in the Herakleion museum.