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Regarding Private City Tours, you may choose or combine any of the following:
3 1/2 hours Normal Athens City TourYour guide, will come to collect you from your hotel to commence Athens city tour.You will visit the sacred rock of the Acropolis and it's museum and temple of Parthenon and Erechtheum. Also drive on to Lycabetos Hill for another exceptional view of the city from it's slopes, other interesting sites of the driven tour include Queen Sofia str Hotels and Embassies, Syntagma square, University street, Omonia square, Stadium Street, Panathenean Marble Stadium, drive through old part of town.


5 1/4 hours Normal Athens City Tour
+ National Archaeological Museum.Same as above + visit to National Archaeological Museum (weblink: http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3249).



4 1/2 hours Cape Sounion Tour
Departing from the center of Athens, you will be driven through the coastline to the Temple of Poseidon (web:http://www.greece-athens.com/place.php?place_id=55). Driving of approx. 1 1/2 hours from the center of Athens to Sounion, where the Temple of Poseidon is located. You will enjoy the trip as you will be driven through the most "beautiful" Athenian road, right next to the sea, going south of Athens. As watching the sunset from the Temple of Poseidon is something you don't want to miss, we suggest an afternoon departure from Athens center.  On your way back, and after sunset, you may combine dinner at "posh" hotel restaurants or traditional Greek Tavernas next to the sea.


1/2 Day Tour to Ancient Corinth (Duration approx 5 hours)
You will depart from Athens leisurely for the canal of Corinth, uniting the Ionian and the Aegean Sea since 1893, visits of the area, including the ancient Corinth. Please find more information at:  http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh351.jsp?obj_id=2388

Full Day Delphi or Argolis (Duration approx 11 hours)
DELPHI
You need approx 3 1/4 hours driving from Athens to the famous Archaeological site of Delphi. Please read extensive site description at the following link: http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh351.jsp?obj_id=2507. A 3 hour tour of the site including the museum will follow. Continuing, you can have lunch locally, and finally you return back to Athens and your hotel.
ARGOLIS
You depart from the center of Athens, and after driving approx 1 1/5 hours you arrive at the canal of Corinth, uniting the Ionian and the Aegean Sea since 1893. You have 20 minutes for photos and rest. Continuing, and after 45 min of driving, you arrive at  Mycenae site, please read extensive informations at the following link: http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh351.jsp?obj_id=2573. You need approx 1 1/2 hour for a detailed guided tour at the ancient site of Mycenaes. Following, and after another 45 min driving, you arrive at the Quaint of Nafplion, the capital of Greece before Athens. Enjoy your lunch there, and possibly try some of the best fried asparagus you have ever tasted. Following your lunch, 35 min driving from Nafplion, you arrive at the famous Ancient Theater of Asklepiou EPIDAVROS. Please read extensive details at http://www.epidavros.cc/english/theatres/index.htm. Continuing, you will enjoy the guided tour of Epidavros (theater + museum) for approx 1 1/2 hours. Finally, drive back to Athens and your hotel, approx 3 hours driving.


Full Day Olympia Tour (Duration approx 14 1/2 hours)
You depart from the center of Athens, and after driving approx 1 1/5 hours you arrive at the canal of Corinth, uniting the Ionian and the Aegean Sea since 1893. You have 20 minutes for photos and rest. Driving time from Corinth to Ancient Olympia is approx 3 hours, and you can add 30 minutes here if you feel like visiting the St Andrews Cathedral, the patron-saint of Patras, located in the city center. Upon arrival at Olympia, we suggest a quick lunch at a local Greek Traditional Taverna for about 1 hour and then head for the Archaeological site and a 3 hour guided tour. Please read extensive details of the Ancient Olympia at the following web link: http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh351.jsp?obj_id=2358. After tour, we suggest 30 minutes walking at the main street of Olympian (shopping-walking) and then head back for Athens and your hotel. As the suggested day visit to Ancient Olympia is a long drive from Athens, we suggest an early morning departure (07:30am) in order to be back at your hotel in Athens approx at 21:00pm.

Rates on all above suggested private excursions, depending on number of people, car/minibus type chosen.

If you would prefer to have a city tour of Athens and Sounion by HELICOPTER, that can be arranged at the rate of 1700 euro for 5 passengers (flight time approx 1 hour). Bare in mind that all suggested tours above, can also be arranged by helicopter transfers.