Greece

Depart Home for Athens, Greece

• Arrive in Athens, Greece
• Airport Transfer
• Check-in at Place of Accommodation
• 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 – National Gardens, Temple of Zeus, Hadrian’s Arch, Plaka, Syntagma Square, Change of the Guards, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and more…
• Lunch Break
• Hadrian’s Arch and Ancient Agora
• Free Evening and Cultural Immersion

• Breakfast & Day Briefing
• Acropolis Hills and Museum, Dionysus Theatre – The Acropolis Museum is consistently rated as one of the best museums in the world. Devoted to the Parthenon and its surrounding temples, it is cleverly perched above Athens like a luminous box.
• Lunch Break
• National Gardens & Temple of Zeus – The temple was one of the largest in the ancient world. At 17 metres high, it originally had 104 columns but only 16 have survived with one fallen after a storm in 1852.

• Breakfast & Day Briefing
• Transfer to Sounion along the Scenic Coastline
  (approx. 2 hours)
• Temple of Poseidon – Majestic Cape Sounion, a strategic point rising above the Aegean sea about 70 kilometers away from Athens in the southern region of Attica, was known by Ancient Greeks as the “Sacred Cape.”
• Lunch Break
• Afternoon at the beach
• Return to Athens

• Breakfast & Day Briefing
• Olympic Stadium Visit – The Old Olympic Stadium in Athens Greece, built of granite in late 19th century on the site of ancient Athens from the 4th Century; hosted the first modern games in 1896.
• Lunch Break
• Lycabettus Hill – Standing 277 meters above sea level, Lycabettus Hill is the highest point of Athens.
• Chapel of Saint George & Sunset View

• Breakfast & Day Briefing
• National Archaeological Museum – The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the largest archaeological museum in Greece and one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient Greek art.
• Lunch Break
• Kerameikos Cemetery – Kerameikos, the cemetery of ancient Athens: Kerameikos is one of the most important but least visited archaeological sights in Athens. This was actually
  the cemetery of ancient Athens and was continuously in use from the 9th century BC until the Roman times. The area took its name from “keramos”, which means pottery in Greek, from the numerous pottery workshops that existed in the area
  before it was turned into a cemetery. Another explanation is that the area took its name

• Breakfast & Day Briefing
• Free Day in Athens
• Farewell Dinner & Program Closing

• Breakfast & Day Briefing
• Airport Transfer
• Depart Athens, Greece for Home