Greece: Culinary Arts and Hospitality

Depart Home for Athens, Greece

Arrive in Athens, Greece

Airport Transfer 

Check-In, Relax and Refresh

Orientation Walking Tour - The group will become oriented with their neighborhood, the public transportation systems, nearby pharmacies, markets, ATMs, etc. Additionally, an in-depth safety briefing will be provided for what to do incase of an emergency. 

Welcome Dinner - The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets.

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Athens Historical & Cultural Walking Tour - Syntagma Square, Change of the Guards, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Hadrian’s Arch, Plaka, Monastiraki, and more.

Lunch Break

The Greek Coffee Experience

Lycabettus Hill - Visit to the Chapel of Saint George and enjoy the sunset view.

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Cooking Class and Food Tasting -  The group will visit the local markets and prepare a three-course traditional meal (lunch included)

Group Lunch

Visit the Acropolis Hill and the New Acropolis Museum 

Meet and Discuss with Hotel Management

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Fast Ferry to Aegina (Approx 1.5 Hours)

Walking Tour in the Main Town of Aegina – Learn about the history of the island, as the first capital of the Greek State

Pistachio Farm - visit and tasting at a pistachio farm

Return to Athens (Approx 1.5 Hours)

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Transfer to Naxos

Check-In, Refresh and Relax

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Naxos Walking Tour

Free Afternoon to Explore the Beautiful Beaches of Naxos 

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Naxos Farm Experience - Naxos is famous throughout Greece for its cheeses and the tradition is well kept in small dairies like this throughout the island's interior. Discuss with the locals and get to know the rural life. 

• Welcomed to this village farm with some chilled homemade lemonade and then the tour of the farm begins.

• During the tour, you will see traditional Greek farm animals such as goats and pigs.

• Visit vegetable garden, the vineyard, followed by a detailed presentation of some specific trees that exist in the garden. 

• Learn about cheese making and try your hand at cheese making too. 

• The experience ends with a tour in a "mitato", the little stone house usually built next to the farm, full of old tools and traditional vintage items.

(Students will be divided in two groups to be able to enjoy the experience thoroughly: half of the group will participate in the Farm experience while the other half will visit the Temple of Demeter and churches close by. Then the groups will switch)

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Transfer to Nafplion

On Route Stop in the Corinth Canal

Visit to Honey Farm and Tasting

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Transfer to Athens

Nemea - Discover Ancient Nemea, set in a fertile upland valley in the north of the Argolid, also hosted important panhellenic games (all-Greek). We pass through the long-vaulted tunnel to the beautifully-positioned stadium, its walls covered in graffiti left by ancient competitors. In the sanctuary itself, we explore the splendid Temple of Zeus and the museum, filled with finds from Nemea, as well as the Mycenaean Aidonia Treasure.

Winery Visit and Light Lunch- Nemea is an area renowned for one more reason: its wine produce. It is the oldest established wine appellation in the country, based on the delicious Agiorgitiko grape.

Arrive in Athens, check-In and Relax

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Service Learning Project –  i.e. Boroume: a non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce food waste and fight malnutrition in Greece; Social kitchen ‘the other man’: a self-governing group, which cooks food in public places for the community.  

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Full Day Excursion Cape Sounion

Swim at Lake Vouliagmeni - The water temperature is between 22 to 29 degrees Celsius throughout the year. The water is constantly being renewed both by the thermal springs and the sea and this results in its brackish composition. 

Visit an Organic Farm and Group Lunch - Learn about their regenerative agriculture techniques (45’ tour) and enjoy a farm-to-fork meal as well an olive oil tasting

Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion - This magnificent Doric temple stands on a vertical precipice, enjoying a breathtaking 180 degrees view of the open sea. The ancient Greeks always chose to build their temples and oracles at places with palpable energy and Cape Sounion is definitely one of them.

Return to Athens

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Business Visit - The group will visit a major hotel in Athens, “Hospitality Management & Tourism”

Free Afternoon in Athens

Farewell Dinner and Program Closing 

Breakfast & Day Briefing

Airport Transfer 

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