First day: Acropolis and Parthenon
View from the Acropolis. The arrow points to our hotel. The new Acropolis museum is the modern building.
The Parthenon
View from the Acropolis - Monument of Filopappos and the Port of Piraeus behind
View from the Acropolis
The Erechtheion temple on the Acropolis
View from our hotel roof restaurant. This was taken at 10pm. It shows the Parthenon lit up on top and the new Acropolis museum filling the screen below. The museum is to open in a few weeks and they worked all evening. A view that shows the odd justaposition of old and new.
Temple of Poseidon at Sounion - an hour bus trip from Athens - David's favorite ancient site.
View from Posdiedon's temple
More temple
Temple of Zeus built by the Romans with Acropolis in the background.
Election poster: "Together we go forward with Greece"
Looking down on restaurant in Athens
Looking up at restaurant in Athens
Greek coastline from ferry
At Golden Beach on Paros
Town of Lefkes on Paros
Unintended drive to mountaintop celltowers on Paros
More on same drive
View from our hotel, Kanale's Suites, in Naousa, Paros
We took a 7 hour kayak halfway around the island of Antiparos. Here we stopped for lunch on a little beach and had it all to ourselves.
Caves on Antiparos
More caves
Antiparos coastline
Coastline kayaking
View into a dead end
Notice kayak coming out of left cave
View from inside large open cave
David inside this cave
Double door
Ferry to Naxos
Temple of Demeter, Naxos - in an isolated valley with no view of the sea
Portara - door to nowhere - Naxos harbor
Portara
Naxos chora and port on right
View from our hotel room - Liannos Village - Naxos
Lunch break on remote beach on drive around Naxos
Wild windsurfing at St. George's beach, Naxos
Evening horseback riding on Naxos
Octopuses at a taverna on Naxos
David hurt his back and this was his favorite seat - notice store in background.
Canal at Corinthian isthmus
Theater at Epidauros, seats 14,000!!
Theater at Epidauros
Lion's Gate at Mycenae: 1500 BC to 1100 BC, home of Agamemnon
Mycanae - treasury - triangular arch above the lentil to relieve the pressure. It was cool inside.
Stadium at Olympia - It was election day and was closed so we viewed from outside the fence.
Olympia - Burned hill on right - composite photo
Olympia, stadium is on right, everything is burned on left and some on right.
St. Andrews cathedral in Patras - very cavernous and decorated inside
New bridge over Corinthian Gulf - longest suspension bridge in the world - finished 1 week before the Olympics in 2004
Another view of the bridge
View from hotel in Delphi down to the sea
Sanctuary of Athena below Delphi
View up to Delphi covering the mountainside
Theater at Delphi
Athletic stadium for the Pythian games at Delphi - way up at the top
Another view of the stadium
Apollo's temple - this is where the priestess Pythia made her predictions.
Another view of Apollo's temple and the valley below
Navel of the earth - in the Delphi museum
Our tour guide - Casandra.
