5Days Athens & Mainland

First Day arrive at airport and we transfer you to Athens Hotel, then you have the day free or you have a tour to Acropolis and Acropolis Museum – ancient Agora etc.This tour gives you an opportunity to observe the striking contrasts that make Athens such a fascinating city. Our expert guides will take you to see the Panathenaic Stadium where the first Olympic Games of modern times were held in 1896 (short stop). Continue and pass by the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Hadrian’s Arch, the Parliament and the memorial to the Unknown Soldier, the Academy, the University, the National Library, the Constitution Square (Syntagma). On the Acropolis visit the Architectural Masterpieces of the Golden Age of Athens: The Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion and finally “the harmony between material and spirit”, the monument that “puts order in the mind”, the Parthenon. Continue and visit the place where at last the statues found their home and admire the wonders of the classical era: The new Acropolis museum.

Second day in Athens you will have a Cave Sounion Tour drive along the coastal road, passing the wonderful beaches of Glyfada, Vouliagmeni & Varkiza to the most Southern point of Attica, Cape Sounion, where the white marble pillars of the Temple of Poseidon stand. On the way, you have a splendid view of the Saronic Gulf and the little islands offshore. After visiting the Temple of Poseidon, you have time to walk at leisure on the rocky promontory of Sounion. or your day free.

Third day you have a Day Tour to Argolis with Lunch transfer to Hotel

Leave by the coastal road along the Saronic Gulf to the Corinth Canal, which connects the Aegean Sea with the Ionian Sea, (short stop).

Drive to Mycenae, the Homeric city of Atreides, the city “rich in gold” of the ancient poets.

Visit the Lion’s Gate, the Cyclopean Walls, and the Royal Tombs e.t.c.

Depart for Nauplion through the fertile plain of Argolis, the picturesque town nestling at the foot of a cliff crowned by the mighty ramparts of the Palamidi Fortress (short photo stop), leave for Epidauros, to visit the Theatre (4th century B.C.) famous for its astonishing acoustics.

Return to Athens by the National road connecting Epidauros with Corinth. Lunch in Mycenae.

Fourth day you have a Day Tour to Delphi with Lunch transfer to Hotel.

Drive through the fertile plain of Beotia, crossing the towns of Thebes connected with the tragedy of King Oedipus – Levadia and Arachova (short stop on the way back).

Arrive at Delphi, the center of Ancient World – the “Omphalos” (Navel of Earth) – whose prestige extended far beyond the boundaries of the Hellenic 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 and the famous athlete Aghias.

Lunch in the modern village of Delphi, return to Athens by the same route.

Fifth day transfer from hotel to airport

• 4Night Athens
  • Accommodation at 4* or 5-star hotels
  • Round Trip Airport / Port Transfers
  • Athens Walking Discovery
  •City Sounion Tour
• 1Day Argolis with Lunch
• 1 Day Delphi with Lunch