TENTATIVE ITINERARY
CLASSICS IN GREECE 2009*
*subject to change as needed…
Day 1
XNA – ATH by air.
Day 2
Arrive ATHENS. REST AND ORIENTATION WALK. Welcome Dinner
Day 3
ATHENS. MUSEUMS AND SITES.
Day 4
ATHENS MUSEUMS/SITES.
Day 5
ATHENS. DAY TRIP TO ISLAND OF AEGINA.
Day 6
ATHENS MUSEUMS/SITES.
Day 7
ATHENS / ATTICA Day Trip to ELEUSIS, AIGOSTHENA AND ELEUTHERAI PIRAEUS.
Overnight in cabins on the Ferry to CRETE.
Day 8
CRETE. Samaria Gorge Hike.
Day 9
CRETE. FREE DAY IN CHANIA.
Day 10
CRETE. CHANIA NAVAL MUSEUM, ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. AFTERNOON: Maleme
WWII German cemetery.
Day 11
CRETE. ARMENOI, RETHYMON, KNOSSOS
Day 12
CRETE. HERAKLION. ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, HISTORICAL MUSEUM. KAZANTZAKIS
TOMB. KOULES IN HARBOR.
Day 13
CRETE. LAW CODE OF GORYTNA, PHAISTOS PALACE, MATALA SWIMMING AND CAVES.
Day 14
Morning Ferry to island of NAXOS.
Day 15
NAXOS. Tour of Island and Climbing Mt. Zeus.
Day 16
NAXOS TOWN. VENETIAN MUSEUM. ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM IN OLD TOWN.
Day 17
Ferry NAXOS to ATHENS.
Day 18
ATTICA/BOEOTIA: Amphiareion, Cheroneia, Orchomenos, Osios Loukas.
Day 19
DELPHI. SITE, MUSEUM, CORYCIAN CAVE.
Day 20
DELPHI TO OLYMPIA, VIA PATRAS, RION-ANTIRION BRIDGE
Day 21
OLYMPIA SANCTUARY MUSEUMS, AND GAMES
Day 22
PYLOS CHORA MUSEUM, PALACE OF NESTOR, METHONI CASTLE
Day 23
PYLOS ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, NIOKASTRO, VOIDOKOILIA BOAT TRIP AND SWIM
Day 24
MESSENE SITE AND MUSEUM, SPARTA MENELAION SANCTUARY OF MENELAUS AND HELEN
Day 25
SPARTA MUSEUM, MONASTERIES AT MYSTRAS, OLIVE MUSEUM
Day 26
MYCENAE.
Day 27
NAUPLION, TIRYNS, EPIDAURUS, PALAMIDI
Day 28
NEMEA SITE AND MUSEUM, CORINTH SITE AND MUSEUM, ACROCORINTH, ISTHMIA
Day 29
ATHENS FREE DAY. FAREWELL DINNER
Day 30
Depart Athens via Metro on your own for return to USA.
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