Ha gorge in Municipality of Ierapetra

You're standing near the Ha Gorge, in the east of Crete, close to the little village of Monastiraki. Look at the slope of the Thrypti mountains. See that narrow, dark slit? That's the gorge. It looks as if someone took an axe to the mountain and split it open. That feeling is even in the name. Ha comes from the Cretan word hasko, which means to gape or to separate.