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Mini Van of 9 seats, full air-conditioned
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08:00 am from Monastiraki square, Ermou 80 str. / Pick up is available by arrangement if you live in the center of Athens
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Day tour, out of town, local experience, museums & culture, youth & family, nature & landscapes / Youth & Family / Greek islands
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English
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Light
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I am not a licensed guide and will not be able to guide you inside of the archaeological sites or museums. But you are going to have any detailed information you need, before your entrance in an archaeological site. Also, you will get for free a small Book guide for the site.
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Overview
Avoid a long ferry ride from Piraeus and take the scenic route to Hydra instead on this intimate door-to-door tour that includes a stop to photograph the Corinth Canal. You’ll pay for your own boat tickets, any entrance fees, and lunch, and enjoy free time to explore the island’s winding alleys, rugged landscapes, and secret beaches.
Spend the day touring Hydra, once home to Leonard Cohen
Admire the Corinth Canal, a marvel of 19th-century engineering
Numbers are capped at just eight travelers for a more intimate experience
Stress-free round-trip transfers direct from your Athens hotel
Why this experience?
Hydra is the island that invites you to stop time and relax.Beautiful cobbled streets next to the endless blue, paths for demanding walks and traditional settlements of natural beauty.
It is one of the most attractive islands you will ever visit. From the very first minutes you walk in its alleys you feel like you are in another era.
The city of Hydra is one of the most beautiful you will find and is full of traditional houses, of the 17th and 18th century with tiled roofs, dark blue doors and windows.
Donkeys and horses are, along with sea taxis, the only means of transport on the island, since wheeled vehicles are prohibited on the island. Everything in this place is transported by hand, mules or carts.
Many movies have been shot here.The windmill of Sophia Loren is also mentioned here, from the characteristic scene of the movie “Boy on the Dolphin”. Many painters and artists have chosen to live here, one of them Leonard Cohen, who bought a house in Hydra in 1960, an initiative which, he said, proved to be the smartest of his life, as the island gave him confidence,calm and inspiration.
Once, in one of his travels, the American writer Henry Miller wrote about the island: “There are only two colors, blue and white, and white is freshly whitewashed every day.Aesthetically it is perfect, the very epitome of impeccable anarchy that it replaces, because it includes and transcends all the standard settings of the imagination.Hydra is a pause in the score of the creation of an excellent calligrapher “.
It is not possible to visit Greece without seeing even one of its islands.
Highlights
- Hydra island
- Corinth Canal
- Landscapes of Peloponnese
