9 days round trip with your own bus including day cruise

Program:

Day 1, arrival in Ancona
Travel from your location to Ancona and embark around 2:30 p.m. Enjoy your little cruise towards Igumenitsa. Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 2, Igoumenitsa – Dodona – Kalampaka
Around 9:30 a.m.Arrival in Igoumenitsa and onward to Dodona.Dodona was an ancient Greek sanctuary and oracle. It was considered the oldest oracle in Greece and, after Delphi, was the most important supra-regional oracle in the Greek world. Guided tour in Dodona, lunch and then on to Kalampaka. Room layout, dinner and overnight in Kalampaka.

Day 3, Kalampaka- Meteora – Delphi
After breakfast, drive to the Meteora monastery and visit the famous Meteora monasteries built on high sandstone cliffs. The monasteries floating between heaven and earth originated in the 14th century. Visit to 2 monasteries and explanations of the importance of Byzantine Orthodox monasticism in Greece and Eastern Europe. Afterwards lunch in one of the numerous traditional taverns in Kalampaka. Dinner and overnight in Delphi.

Day 4, Kalampaka – Delphi
After breakfast visit Delphi. The place owes its fame to the oracle. We visit, among other things, the Temple of Apollo, the Treasury of the Athenians, the theater, the stadium and the museum with the famous bronze charioteer and then continue to Athens. Dinner and overnight in Athens.

Day 5, Athens City – Acropolis – Museum – Plaka – Tolo
After breakfast city tour in Athens. We drive over Omonia and Syntagma Square, past the Panathenaic Stadium (photo break), the Royal Palace, Zeus Temple, to the Acropolis Museum. Guided tour of the museum and then on foot to the Acropolis. Visit to the Propylaea, the Erechtheion, the Temple of Nikes and the Parthenon. Lunch in a tavern in Plaka, the old town of Athens.
Then drive over the Panepistimiou street, past the Schliemann Haus, the academy and the university. Dinner and overnight in hotel.

Day 6, Tolo – Epidaurus – Mycenae – Tolo
After breakfast via the Corinth Canal (photo break) drive to the castle hill of Mycenae, which was excavated by Heinrich Schliemann at the end of the 19th century. The lion gate, the royal tombs, the palace, the newly created museum and the treasure house of Atreus are visited.
After that continue to Epidaurus, the cult and healing center of Asclepius, visit of the open-air theater and the museum, famous for its acoustics.
Dinner and overnight at our hotel in Tolo.

Day 7, HYDRA ISLAND – SPETSES ISLAND
We have a special day ahead of us. After breakfast we drive to the small port of Tolo, and from there we take a small day cruise. First we visit the island of Hydra.
The first traces of settlement suggest that Hydra attracted hunters and fishermen as early as the Neolithic. The first focus of settlement in the Mycenaean period is likely around 1300 BC. Chr. Remains from this period (broken glass, walls) can be found near the settlement of Molos. In ancient times there were protective towers that had optical connections to similar structures on the opposite side of the Peloponnese. At Molos, in addition to black-figure shards (approx. 600–400 BC), wall remains can also be found on a hill. The journey continues to Spetses Island.
Spetses is the island south of the Argolis peninsula in the Argolic Gulf and part of the Saronic Islands. Together with the uninhabited island of Velopoula and the privately owned small island of Spetsopoula, it forms the municipality of Spetses. Around 5 p.m. return in Tolo and continue to Olympia. Dinner and overnight at the Olympia.

Day 8, Olympia – Patras – Ancona
After breakfast, drive to Olympia. Visit to the excavation sites of Olympia with the remains of the once huge Temple of Zeus, the older Temple of Hera, the workshop of the famous sculptor Phidias and the sports facilities (Olympic stadium). Then continue to Patras. In the evening around 17:50 embarkation. The journey continues by ferry to Ancona, dinner and overnight on board.

Day 9, on the ship
Around 5:30 pm arrival in Ancona and drive home.