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Price is €165 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 10h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • We visit Kalavryta and surrounding areas as travelers, not as tourists. We get as excited as you to travel, to enjoy the history, scenery & photography.

    Schedule is flexible, but most importantly our drivers are seasoned travelers and are dedicated to helping you live the tour of your life, a combination of Nature and History.

    This private tour takes you via Corinth Canal (short stop) to Peloponnese. Continue to Diakopto, from where you will take the cog railway, a unique train ride via Vouraikos Gorge to Kalavryta. From train station we drive to Agia Lavra monastery. Return to Kalavryta, explore village (visit Holocaust Museum), return in Athens by car this time. On the way we will stop at Mega Spileo Monastery (the oldest in Greece). Continue to Corinth for our last stop. Visit site/ museum

Activity location

  • Corinth Canal
    • 201 00, Isthmia, Greece, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Corinth Canal
    • 201 00, Isthmia, Greece, Greece

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From Nafplion to Kalavryta

  • Activity duration is 10 hours10h
    10h
  • English

This option only from Nafplio:: Nafplio is 150km from Athens. This private tour starts from and ends in Nafplio. The rate is different than Athens
This is private tour/activity: Only your group will participate. Your driver provides informative documentary & historical details as you travel .
Our A'class service offers : Non - smoking driver and vehicle, with a high level of cleanliness. The vehicle is exclusive to your team .
Duration: 8 hours: Kalavryta tour from Nafplio. If you wish to extend it, additional time/ per hour: 35€ (Sedan) - 50€(Minivan) - 65€(Minibus).
This private tour offers: Drop off to your Hotel/ Apartment, or Port in Nafplion, at the arranged time of your tour return .
Suv, Sedan, Minivan, Minibus: Sedan for a family of 4 persons (2 adults & 2 kids) or up to 3 adults. Minivan (up to 7 persons) Minibus (up to 14 persons).
Children Free: Kalavryta private tour from/ to Nafplion offers: 2 children up to 10 years old free.
Pickup included

Starting time: 07:45
Price details
€400.00 x 1 Adult€400.00
Paid at activity€30.00
Total
Price is €430.00
Until Wed, 7 Oct

Athens To Kalavryta/ sedan

  • Activity duration is 10 hours10h
    10h
  • English

Pick up/ Drop off in Athens: Pick up/ Drop off - From/ To your Hotel or Apartment in Athens up to 7 km from center.
This is private tour/ activity: Only your group will participate. Your driver provides informative documentary & historical details as you travel .
Our A'class service offers : Non - smoking driver and vehicle, with a high level of cleanliness. The vehicle is exclusive to your team .
Duration: 10 hours: Kalavryta private tour from Athens. If you wish to extend trip, additional time/ per hour: 30€ (with Sedan)
This private tour from Athens : Offers drop off to your Hotel/ Apartment or other location (up to prior request), at the arranged time of your tour return .
Sedan Air-conditioned : Kalavryta/ Caves private tour with a luxury Sedan. Up to 3 adults or family of 4 (2 adults + 2 kids up to 11 years old free)
Pickup included

Price details
€480.00 x 1 Adult€480.00
Paid at activity€30.00
Total
Price is €510.00
Until Wed, 7 Oct

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Your driver provides informative books, map, audio documentary with historical details as you travel
  • Inclusions
    Professional English speaking experienced Tour driver for the day
  • Inclusions
    Government Fees
  • Inclusions
    Pick up / Drop off, from/to your hotel/apartment in Athens, or request another location
  • Inclusions
    Private Transportation & includes: (Fuels, Toll Roads, Parking Fees)
  • Exclusions
    The Municipal Museum of the Kalavryta Holocaust
  • Exclusions
    Admission fee - Ancient Corinth (Site & Museum) Summer from 1st April to 30th October 15€ . Ancient Corinth (Site & Museum) Winter from 1st November to 31st March 8€ . EUR 8.00 per person
  • Exclusions
    Train fee 10€ (Diakopto- Kalavryta/ one way) For weekends or holidays, purchase your tickets online.
  • Exclusions
    Tips are at your descretion

Know before you book

    • Specialized infant seats are available
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • Train fee 10€ (Diakopto- Kalavryta/ one way) For weekends or holidays, purchase your tickets online in advance. Your return from Kalavryta to Athens or Nafplion, it will be by car, so will see another view of the mountain and we will have the chance to visit the Monastery of Mega Spilaeon, the oldest in Peloponnese.
    • You Have the options of 3 different Vehicles types: Sedan up to 3 adults or family of 4 (2 adults + 2 kids - up to 11 years old free) - Minivan ( from 1 to 7 persons - 2 kids/ up to 11 years old free ) - Minibus ( from 1 to 14 persons - 2 kids/ up to 11 years old free). Price varies by Group Size or Vehicle type.
    • Your tour is private & flexible and available from/ to Athens or from/ to Nafplio. However we only request to have in mind the agreement hours. But if you like to extend it, please make a fair arrangement with your tour driver/ leader. Additional charge per hour is 35€ (Sedan) - 50€ (Minivan) - 65€ (Minibus).
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Corinth Canal

  • 15m
The marvelous man-made Corinth canal connecting the Aegean and Ionian seas, as well as the Peloponnese peninsula with the central part of Greece. More than 2500 workers digging 6.400m for twelve years (from 1881 to 1893). Stop for photography, walk across on a pedestrian bridge and admire the canal from 80 m high

Diakopto

  • 15m
Diakopto is a town and a former municipality in Achaea / Peloponnese. The town of Diakopto is situated on the Gulf of Corinth, near the mouth of the Vouraikos river and at the lower end of the Vouraikos Gorge. From Diakopto train station you will buy your tickets for this unique rack rail way train to Kalavryta. Train fee 10€ (Diakopto- Kalavryta/ one way) For weekends or holidays, please purchase your tickets online in prior time.

Mouseio Odontotou

  • 1h 8m
  • Admission ticket not included
You’ll be hard-pressed to find a train journey as spectacular as that of the rack railway that links the seaside village of Diakopto to picturesque Kalavryta. Take the Diakopto–Kalavryta Railway, an historic 750 mm gauge cog railway in Greece. It runs 22 km (14 mi) through the Vouraikos Gorge, stopping on route at Zachlorou. It is one of the most beautiful natural sights plus one of the most spectacular railway rides. The little train travels through streams, climbing the majestic narrow gorge, up into the mountains, through bridges and tunnels, over waterfalls, along cliffs and through forest of pine and oak trees. When the incline gets really steep it switches form regular track to a cog system.

Kalavryta

  • 1h
Kalavryta a popular traditional mountain village. Visit Museum & town. In early December 1943, the German Army's 117th Jäger Division began a mission named Unternehmen Kalavryta (Operation Kalavryta), intending to encircle Greek Resistance fighters in the mountainous area surrounding Kalavryta. During the operation, 78 German soldiers, who had been taken prisoner by the partisans in October, were executed by their captors. In response, the commander of the German division, General Karl von Le Suire personally ordered the "severest measures" — the killing of the male population of Kalavryta — on 10 December 1943. Operation Kalavryta was mounted from six cities: Patras, Aigion, and Cornith on the Gulf of Corinth and from Argos, Pyrgos and Tripolis in central Peloponnese. All "Battle-Groups" were aimed at Kalavryta, although the divisions from Pyrgos, Argos, and Corinth returned to their bases soon after.

Agia Lavra Monastery

  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included
Agia Lavra is a monastery near Kalavryta, Achaea, Greece. It was built in 961 AD, on Chelmos Mountain, at an altitude of 961 meters, and can be described as the symbolic birthplace of modern Greece. It stands as one of the oldest monasteries in the Peloponnese. It was burnt to the ground in 1585 by the Turks It is famously linked with the Greek War of Independence, since it was here that the call for Eleftheria 'ι Thanatos (Ελευθερία ή θάνατος) was first heard on 25 March 1821, launching the revolution against the Ottoman Empire.

The Municipal Museum of the Kalavryta Holocaust

  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Kalavryta a popular traditional mountain village. Visit Museum (optional) and town. In early December 1943, the German Army's 117th Jäger Division began a mission named Unternehmen Kalavryta (Operation Kalavryta), intending to encircle Greek Resistance fighters in the mountainous area surrounding Kalavryta. During the operation, 78 German soldiers, who had been taken prisoner by the partisans in October, were executed by their captors. In response, the commander of the German division, General Karl von Le Suire personally ordered the "severest measures" — the killing of the male population of Kalavryta — on 10 December 1943. Operation Kalavryta was mounted from six cities: Patras, Aigion, and Cornith on the Gulf of Corinth and from Argos, Pyrgos and Tripolis in central Peloponnese. All "Battle-Groups" were aimed at Kalavryta, although the divisions from Pyrgos, Argos, and Corinth returned to their bases soon after. Holocaust Museum is closed on Mondays

Mega Spileo Monastery

  • 45m
  • Admission ticket included
The monastery is located in a large cave in a sheer cliff, where the western slopes of Mount Chelmos drop down to the gorge of the Vouraikos river. The cave was known in antiquity, and the geographer Pausanias reports that the daughters of Proetus found refuge there during their madness. In the first Christian centuries, Christian hermits occupied the cave. According to tradition, the monastery is one of the oldest in Greece, reputedly founded in 362 by the Thessalonian brothers Symeon and Theodore, who with the help of Euphrosyne (a local shepherdess, honored as saint for her part in these events) discovered in the cave the icon of the Theotokos painted by Luke the Evangelist. Several of the monks became members of the Filiki Etaireia and took part in the Greek War of Independence. On 8 December 1943, the German 117th Jäger Division destroyed the monastery and executed 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta.

Ancient Corinth (Archaia Korinthos)

  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
Here are the remains of Ancient Corinth, one of the largest cities in Ancient Greece. Walking in the ancient City of Corinth is like to walk back in time. For Christians, Corinth is well known from the two letters of Saint Paul in the New Testament, First and Second Corinthians. Corinth is also mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as part of the Paul the Apostle's missionary travels. Combined ticket for Ancient Corinth is 8€ for summer or 4€ for winter (Ticket Includes Museum / Winter time closed on Tuesday)

Athens (Pass by)

Return to Athens this time by car. Tour is private, if you wish other location (up to prior request & agreement)

Location

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    Corinth Canal
    • 201 00, Isthmia, Greece, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Corinth Canal
    • 201 00, Isthmia, Greece, Greece

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