Athens Experience
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Guaranteed departures every day of
the week
Highlights included in
your tour:
• Meeting and
assistance at the airport.
• Arrival and
departure assisted transfers.
• Four nights first
class or deluxe accommodation in Athens.
• Continental
breakfast served daily at your hotel in Athens.
• Air conditioned
transportation for transfers and tours.
• Full day guided tour
of Athens and Cape Sounion.
• Full day cruise to
Hydra - Poros - Aegena including lunch.
• Full day guided tour
to Delphi including lunch.
• English speaking
professional licensed guide.
• All hotel taxes,
service charges and port taxes.
• Services of our
representative office in Athens.
Day
1 - Arrival
Our representative awaits your arrival in Athens airport and will take
you to your hotel in Athens.
Day
2 - Athens
After breakfast
you leave for a guided sightseeing tour of Athens. See Constitution Square
(Syntagma), the House of Parliament, the Memorial for the Unknown Soldier and
the National Library. Short stop at the Royal Palace. On your way to the
Acropolis, you pass by the Panathenaic Stadium where the first Olympic Games of
the modern era were held, the Temple of the Olympian Zeus and Adrian’s Arch and
arrive for a visit to the Acropolis Museum, the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena
Nike, the Erechtheion and the Parthenon. In the afternoon you drive past the
wonderful beaches of Glyfada, Vouliag-meni and Varkiza to the southern most
point of Attica, Cape Sounion, for a visit to the Temple of God Apollo. (B)
Day
3 - Saronic Islands Cruise
Today you will set sail on a one day cruise of the Saronic Islands. You
leave Athens by bus and drive to Marina Trokadero for your embarkation. Sail
for the Island of Hydra, where you disembark before noon and have time for a
leisurely stroll or swim. Proceed to the Island of Aegina, sailing through the
narrow strait between Poros Island and the Peloponnesian coast. Lunch will be
served on board. You disembark at Aegina Island for some free time to do some
exploring. An optional coach excursion will be offered to the Temple of Afea
Athena before returning to Athens. (B, L)
Day
4 - Delphi / Thebes / Levadia / Arakhova
This morning you
leave Athens driving through the fertile plains off Boeotia, past the towns of
Thebes connected with the tragedy of King Oedipus, Levadia and Arachova. You
arrive in Delphi, the centre of the ancient world, the “Omphalos”, whose
prestige extended far beyond the boundaries of the Hellenistic world. On the
slopes of Mount Parnassus, in the 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 masterpieces of
ancient Greek sculpture as the bronze Charioteer and the famous athlete Aghias.
Lunch at the modern village of Delphi and return in the afternoon to Athens.
(B, L)
Day
5 - Departure
After breakfast,
transfer to the airport for your return flight. (B)
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