Splendors of Greece Tour - 8 days
Cultural group tour / Guaranteed
departures
Accommodation in Standard and Superior Hotels (3-4 star)
• Athens (2) • Delphi
(1) • Athens (1) • Mykonos (2) • Athens (1)
Category:
Cultural group tour, Scenic Land and Sea Journey
Day 1: Arrive Athens
Arrive at Athens airport and
transfer to your hotel.
Overnight:
Athens
Day 2: Half Day Athens City
Tour (B)
After breakfast
transfer to terminal to join your group. This tour gives
you an opportunity to observe the striking contrasts
that make Athens such a fascinating city.
Our expert guides take you
to see the center of the city.
Constitution Square (Syntagma),
the House of Parliament, the Memorial to the Unknown
Soldier and the National Library.
Driving down Herod Atticus
Street, you will see the Evzones in their picturesque
uniform and the Presidential Palace.
On your way to the acropolis
you will see the Hadrian’s Arch, visit the Temple of
Olympian Zeus and you will make a short stop at the
Panathenaic Stadium where the first Olympic Games of the
modern era were held in 1896.
On the Acropolis visit the
architectural masterpieces of the Golden Age of Athens:
the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erectheion
and finally “the harmony between material and spirit”,
the monument that “puts order in the mind”, the
Parthenon. Afternoon at leisure.
Overnight: Athens
Day 3: Delphi (B, D)
After breakfast transfer to
terminal to join your group. Drive through the fertile
plain of Beotia, crossing the towns of Thebes, Levadia
and Arachova arrive in Delphi, the center of the Ancient
World.
On the slopes of Mount
Parnassus, in a landscape of unparalleled beauty and
majesty, lie the ruins of the Sanctuary of Apollo
Pythios.
Visit the Treasury of the
Athenians, the Temple of Apollo and the Museum
containing such masterpieces of Ancient Greek sculpture
as the bronze Charioteer.
Afternoon free.
Dinner and overnight
Delphi.
Day 4:
Delphi - Athens (B)
Morning free. In the afternoon
return to Athens via the picturesque mountain village of
Arachova, built on the south
slopes of Parnassus, well known for its attractive
hand-woven carpets, rugs and quilts, as well as for its
wine and cheese (short stop). Arrive
Athens
approx at 6:30 pm.
Overnight: Athens
Day 5:
Athens
(B) – Ferry to Mykonos
Check-out from your hotel, transfer to the
port
of Piraeus for
the ferry to Mykonos
Island. Upon
arrival, transfer to your hotel. Rest of the day is at
leisure.
Overnight: Mykonos
Day 6: A day at Greek
Island (B)
Today is at leisure. In Mykonos you can stroll at
leisure through the white-washed, flower-decked
alleyways to the sculptured church of Paraportiani or
along the water-front of "Little Venice" to the
well-known windmills.
Overnight;
Mykonos
Day 7: Mykonos - Athens (B)
Transfer to port to take the ferry back to Piraeus. In Piraeus meet your
driver and transfer to your hotel in Athens.
Overnight: Athens
Day 8: Athens
Departure (B)
Morning transfer to Athens
Hellinikon International airport for departure. Thank
you for visiting Greece.
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