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Ancient Olympia Private Full Day Tour

Ancient Olympia Private Full Day Tour

By Tours in Athens and Greece
Price is €600 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
Features
  • 10h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview
  • athens
  • corinth canal
  • tripolis
  • argos
  • olympia

Activity location

  • Ancient Olympia
    • Corinth Canal, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Hotel pick up and drop off in Athens
    • Athens, Greece

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Ancient Olympia Private Full Day Tour
  • Activity duration is 10 hours10h10h
  • English

Live Commentary in English provided by professional english speaking guide-driver

Language options: English
Starting time: 08:00
Price details
€600.00 x 1 Traveller€600.00

Total
Price is €600.00

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedDriver with Car
  • What's includedWhat's includedProtection from tourist traps
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTickets for sightseeing (12 euros per person)
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedLunch

Know before you book

  • Our tours are provided by comfortable Mercedes 9 seater minivans with panoramic view
  • Please contact us 24 hours before your tour to inform us of your hotel location.
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

Your private tour will start from Athens and drive you through a scenic and beatiful landscape inside the Peloponnese peninsula.

Our first stop is the magnificent structure of the Corinth Canal, which is in Peloponnese, the southern peninsula of Greece. The Corinth Canal connects the Saronic with the Corinthian Gulf in the Aegean Sea. A dream of the ancients, that came true in 1893. Time for rest and some amazing photos above the Corinth Canal.

Then, we will drive towards ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in Classical times. There you will visit both the archaeological site and choose between Archaeological Museum of Olympia with a great amound of artefacts and statues in it, and the Museum of the Olympic Games.

The Games were held every 4 years from the 8th century BC untill 4th century AD.

You will visit the Temple of Zeus, Pelopion, the stadium, the Temple of Hera, the Phillipeion, the Phidias workshop and many other structures that worth your attention.You can feel the aura of the Olympic Games, fighting on the Pallestra or running around the stadium and understand why ancients took so seriously the cultivation of body, mind and soul.

When you feel hungry get ready to taste the famous Greek cuisine and have a memorable lunch.the tour will guide you to a traditional restaurant or tavern.It's up to you to choose from a variety of flavours of the most known Greek dishes.

After your lunch at Olympia, we will drive back to Athens

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESAncient Olympia
    • Corinth Canal, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEHotel pick up and drop off in Athens
    • Athens, Greece