ITINERARY
Day 1: Arrival Athens airport. Reception at the hotel. Accommodation Athens.
Dinner at the hotel.
Day 2. CLASSICAL GREECE: First stop the CORINTH CANAL (short stop), go on direction south to EPIDAURUS and visit the Ancient theatre.Continue to MYCENAE via Nafplion. Visit the ruins and the Tomb of Agamemnon. Early afternoon depart for OLYMPIA, the birth place of the Olympic Games, through the cites of Tripolis and MEGALOPOLIS.
Overnight stay in Olympia. (Breakfast - Dinner)
Day 3. CLASSICAL GREECE: Visit the archaeological site with the Temple of Zeus, the Temple of Hera, the altar of the Olympic flame, the Stadium and the archaeological Museum. Drive to RION, cross the Corinthian bay by the new bridge to ANTIRION. Pass by the city of NAFPAKTOS and direction east along the coastal road to DELPHI, known in ancient times as the navel of the world. Overnight stay in Delphi. (Breakfast - Dinner)
Day 4. CLASSICAL GREECE: the ruins and the MUSEUM of Delphi. Drive north direction KALAMBAKA via Central Greece Overnight stay in Kalambaka (a small town built at the foot of the majestic grey rocks and crowned by the METEORA Monasteries). (Breakfast - Dinner)
Day 5. CLASSICAL GREECE / ATHENS: Morning visit the Byzantine monasteries of METEORA. Drive south for the trip back to Athens passing the heroic monument of Leonidas at THERMOPYLAE. Early afternoon arrival ATHENS. Accommodation Athens. (Breakfast - Dinner)
Valid Period:
January 1st 2011 - October 30, 2011