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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