Argolide - Excursion d'une journée complète au départ d'Athènes

We spent an enjoyable day seeing the countryside on our tour to the Peloponnese. Our guide was the very experienced and knowledgeable Vasilios. In addition to his narrative during the drive, he used a dash mounted tablet to play videos of a professor of archeology explaining each site as we were heading to visit it. These videos provided an exceptional context that allowed us to better understand what we were seeing at the site itself. We were very glad to have a chance to see more than just Athens during our short stay in Greece. We had many questions about the flora, fauna, and lifestyles along the way, and learned a lot about Greece and its people as Vasilios responded. He was an excellent driver, very professional, attentive to all the details to keep us comfortable and to tailor the day to what we wanted to see and do. It was such a great experience, we booked a second tour with this company for a following day.

We had a great guide. We loved old Corinthia. The site was much larger than expected. We also loved the old bridge across the canal and got to see it being lowered and raised. Nafplia was charming.

There is only one way to describe our trip - FANTASTIC. Pick up form our hotel was timely and we were kept informed throughout about what we would see an timing. It is all due to the the guide, Markos Vasalos, a highly educated professional whose family has been in the tourism industry for years and who is very knowledgeable about the area and Greece as a whole. He shared the history and customs with us even of out of the way spots we could see form the road but not visit. We went places on the spur of the moment which deviated slightly from the planned itinerary, seeing far more than was described. What were described and we visited as highlights - Theater at Epidaurus, the ruins of Corinth, the Corinth Canal, and Mycenae were the main foci and are well worth the trip. However, a visit to (for a late lunch) and sauntering around Navplion an Aegean seaside city on the other side of the Peninsula from Corinth, with its floating Venetian Fortress surrounded by yachts, was an unexpected treat, especially when accompanied by Markos' town history lesson. If you make this trip (and you should) you would be missing out hugely by not asking specifically for Markos or "his" people. We use guides on more than 8 occasions in Greece. I cannot more strongly recommend any tour than this one with Markos. It makes all the difference in the world for long day which is well worth it even in 98* heat.