{"id":23638,"date":"2026-10-15T15:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/cretan-shepherd-giannis-papasifakis-goes-viral-and-attracts-bbc\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:37:03","slug":"cretan-shepherd-giannis-papasifakis-goes-viral-and-attracts-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/cretan-shepherd-giannis-papasifakis-goes-viral-and-attracts-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Cretan Shepherd Giannis Papasifakis Goes Viral and Attracts BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-giannis-papasifakis-a-cretan-shepherd-with-more-than-100-000-social-media-followers-is-featured-in-a-bbc-the-travel-show-episode-titled-guardians-of-crete\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Giannis Papasifakis, a Cretan shepherd with more than 100,000 social media followers, is featured in a BBC <em>The Travel Show<\/em> episode titled \u201cGuardians of Crete.\u201d<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen youtube\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He continues a family livestock tradition, living for months each year in a mitato at around 1,800 metres in the White Mountains above Anopoli, Sfakia, southern Crete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His days involve herding sheep, making cheese, and remote mountain life, with supplies carried by mules and power from solar panels. He regularly posts photos and videos, sometimes drawing up to 1,200 live viewers while eating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BBC segment highlights this centuries-old shepherding way of life away from Crete\u2019s beaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post Cretan Shepherd Giannis Papasifakis Goes Viral and Attracts BBC appeared first on Greek City Times.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/10\/15\/cretan-shepherd-giannis-papasifakis-bbc-viral\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Papasifakis, a Cretan shepherd with more than 100,000 social media followers, is featured in a BBC The Travel Show episode titled \u201cGuardians of Crete.\u201d He continues a family livestock tradition, living for months each year in a mitato at around 1,800 metres in the White Mountains above Anopoli, Sfakia, southern Crete. His days involve &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Cretan Shepherd Giannis Papasifakis Goes Viral and Attracts BBC\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/15\/cretan-shepherd-giannis-papasifakis-goes-viral-and-attracts-bbc\/#more-23638\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cretan Shepherd Giannis Papasifakis Goes Viral and Attracts BBC\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ktinitrofos-kritis.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}