A taste of Greece

ATHENS, SOUNION, ANCIENT NEMEA, NAFPLION, ANCIENT OLYMPIA, NAFPAKTOS, DELPHI, KALAMPAKA, THESSALONIKI, PHILIPPI, HALKIDIKI, OURANOPOLIS, VERIA

DAY 1: AIRPORT – ATHENS – SOUNIO

• Arrival and transfer to hotel.
• Athens suburbs
• Get to know ancient Greece.
• Mineralogical museum*
• Archaeological museum
• Enjoy natural views of the sea and sunset.
• Visit Cape Sounio, temple of god Poseidon, god of sailors.
• King Aegeas (name giver to the Aegean Sea)

*conditional visit subject to working days and opening hours.

Airlines: Aegean airlines
Hotel: Candia 4* star or similar (Athens City Centre – Acropolis view)
Meal: lunch / dinner (depends on arrival time): Greek cuisine at Sounio.
Dinner: at hotel

DAY 2: ATHENS CITY TOUR

• Panathinaikon stadium
• ex Royal Palace and the Zappion (ex Royal gardens),
• temple of Olympian Zeus
• Hadrian’s Arch
• The old and the new Parliament
• the tomb of the unknown soldier
• Schliemann’s house
• the Academy, the University
• the National Library
• Constitution Square (Syntagma)
• the Acropolis and the Propylae
• temple of Athena Nike
• the Parthenon, the Erechtheion
• the New Museum of Acropolis
• Plaka

Hotel: Candia 4* star or similar (Athens City Centre – Acropolis view)
Meals: breakfast: at hotel / lunch: own arrangement / dinner: Greek cuisine
Extra Tips (without extra charge):
Floor show with live music and Greek Folk Dances in traditional costumes.

DAY 3: ISTHMUS OF CORINTH – ANCIENT NEMEA – TRADITIONAL WINERY – MYCENAE – NAFPLION

– The world famous Corinth Canal
– Ancient Nemea and Temple of Nemean Zeus

• Traditional winery

– MYCENAE

• kingdom of mythical Agamemnon
• Lion Gate
• ancient Palace
• Agamemnon’s vaulted stone tomb
• The Treasury of Atreus
• Mycenae Citadel

– ROMANTIC NAFPLION

• Palamidi fortress
• Bourtzi fortress

Hotel: Candia 4* star or similar (Athens City Centre – Acropolis view)
Meals: breakfast: at hotel / lunch: own arrangement / dinner: Greek cuisine
Extra Tips (without extra charge):
• Visit to a traditional winery in Nemea and tasting Nemean wines.
• Nafplio open bus tour
You might want to buy your own bottles for the trip back home (your own arrangement)

DAY 4 HIGHLIGHTS: NAFPLIO – ANCIENT OLYMPIA

• birth place of the Olympic Games
• temple of Zeus
• temple of Hera
• Olympic Stadium
• altar of the Olympic flame
• Olympia museum.

Hotel: 4* star hotel in Nafplio
Meals: breakfast: at hotel / lunch: own arrangement / dinner: Greek cuisine

DAY 5 HIGHLIGHTS: NAFPAKTOS – DELPHI

• Battle of Lepanto
• Venetian harbor
• Mount Parnassos
• archaeological site and the Museum in Delphi
• The most sacred spot in the world
• Sanctuary of Apollo
• Sacred way
• Doric temple of Apollo
• Pythia (the oracle)
• Arachova

Hotel: 4* star hotel in Delphi
Meals: breakfast: at hotel / lunch: own arrangement / dinner: Greek cuisine

DAY 6 HIGHLIGHTS: DELPHI – KALAMPAKA – METEORA

• colourful rock structure in Meteora
• the valley of Panagia
• in-the-rock skete of Agios Nicolaos.
• Rock of the Holy Spirit The built-in-the-rock Entry of the Lord to the Temple Monastery

Hotel: 4* star hotel in Meteora
Meals: breakfast: at hotel / lunch: own arrangement / dinner: Greek cuisine.

DAY 7: METEORA – THESSALONIKI

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Departure from Meteora.
• Arrival in Thessaloniki

Hotel: 4* star hotel in Meteora
Meals: breakfast: at hotel / lunch: own arrangement / dinner: Greek cuisine.

DAY 8 HIGHLIGHTS: THESSALONIKI – PHILIPPI – ANCIENT THEATRE – TRADITIONAL WINERY

• Ancient Philippi
• Philippi’s Acropolis
• Philippi’s forum and basilica
• Ancient Theatre
• Baptistery of St. Lydia of Philippi
• Traditional Winery

Hotel: 4* star hotel in Thessaloniki
Meals: breakfast: at hotel / lunch: own arrangement / dinner: Greek cuisine.

DAY 9 HIGHTLIGHTS: HALKIDIKI – CRUISE AT MOUNT ATHOS – OURANOUPOLIS – THESSALONIKI

• Ancient Stageira, Aristotle’s birthplace
• Aristotle Park
• Mount Athos cruise
• Ouranopolis

Hotel: 4* star hotel in Thessaloniki
Meals: breakfast: at hotel / lunch: own arrangement / dinner: Greek cuisine.

DAY 10 HIGHLIGHTS: VERIA – MOUNT VERMIO – VERGINA – ATHENS

• Veria
• Mount Vermio
• Step of Apostle Paul
• Vergina
• the museum
• Philip II and Alexander IV tombs
• Heroes Garden

Hotel: 4* star hotel
Meals: breakfast: at hotel / lunch: own arrangement / dinner: Greek cuisine.

DAY 11: ATHENS – AIRPORT

After breakfast we will depart from Athens to the airport.
We present you with various excursion proposals but we are also very happy to customize our services to meet your own requirements.

Hotel: Candia 4* star or similar (Athens City Centre – Acropolis view)
breakfast: at hotel
Transfer: from hotel to Eleftherios Venizelos Airport