Monumental Olive Tree of Vouves in Municipality of Platanias

You're standing at the Olive Tree of Vouves, in the little village of Ano Vouves in western Crete, in the Chania region. Take a good look at that trunk. It's twisted, furrowed and split, more like a chunk of rock than a tree. It measures twelve and a half metres around and more than four and a half metres across. This is probably one of the oldest olive trees in the world.