Olympia, Greece Travel Blogs

place of the first Olympics
Jul 16, 2008 (40 photos)

... nas podwiezc do Pyrgos. Zawiozla nas nawet 10km dalej! Byla przemila i bardzo rozmowna. Raczej nietypowa Greczynka. ENGLISH: To Olympia we were taken by a camp - trailer with Austians living in Czech Republic inside. Marcin was moaning that we arrived ...

The Road to Olympia
Nov 11, 2008 (2 photos)

... Once we got to the site, the burned trees were on the hill right above us. And Indy said the Olympia museum was spared by nothing but a miracle. The road between Vassai and Olympia was lined with arboral memorials to all of Creation lost to the flames.

Jane the Olympic Champion
Nov 11, 2008 (10 photos)

... temple where his Zeus statue would sit. In the following centuries, his workshop was turned into a Byzantine church. We left the Olympia site as the sun was setting, and dined together at a local taverna. That night, Sunshine and Indy went out to a ...

Stories in Stone at Olympia
Nov 11, 2008 (3 photos)

... left to do on our excursion to the Peloponnese before departing back to Athens was to roam through the Antiquities Museum at Olympia and the the Museum of the Olympic Games. At the Antiquities Museum, Indy showed us the sculptures that appeared on the ...

Olympia
Sep 28, 2000 (15 photos)

... itself was awesome with the sun beating down all day. The site of the ruins was spectacular and on a fairly large scale. Olympia was a sacred place of temples, priest dwellings, and public buildings as well as being the venue for the Olympic Games first ...

Welcome to Olympia!
Jan 17, 2009 (12 photos)

... an Archaeological site. All these things are just so old, most from anywhere between 600 & 300 B.C. We drove through to Olympia which is where we spent the night. 13/01 - First stop today was another Archaeological site which has the remains of the ...

Olympia
Oct 18, 2005 (5 photos)

... of Samothrace which is held in the Louvre in Paris. Although it is not well known, there was also an oracle at Olympia. This oracle gave prophesies mainly about war and battles, so there were often offerings of armor. It was some pretty cool stuff. ...

Olympia
Jun 3, 2007 (5 photos)

We arrived in Olympia mid morning and decided to search for a hotel first. We asked around 4 or 5 and settled on Hotel Pelops, which had been the original choice from Lonely Planet anyway. Although the rooms are quite small the hotel was comfortable, fresh ...

Light the torch
Sep 2, 2009 (40 photos)

... to get out of everyone. We arrived at the site and spent about two hours visiting mainly the archaeological ruins of Olympia. Among the ruins was the first Olympic track, Roman baths, a gymnasium, wrestling facilities, and Temples honoring Hera and Zeus ...

Olympia
Jun 23, 2007

... it's even considered bad luck to stare at someone for an extended period of time. Not much further and we are at our hotel in Olympia. Due to the opressive heat, the Olympic site tour has been pushed back to 5pm. It was quite interesting but in the heat, ...

Greece is the Word
Sep 10, 2006 (1 photos)

... taken in I was a drowned rat! :) Next day I stuck to the main roads and persevered the trucks until I made it to Olympia. Birth place of the Olympics in 776BC. Initially to the glorification of Zeus, but that ended later on. I'd forgotten that one of ...

Nov 03, 2009
Nov 3, 2009 (1 photos)

Olympia and Mycenae
Jul 13, 2008 (75 photos)

... (except they started as only summer games and winter games were added in the mid-20th century). People from all over Greece would venture to Olympia for the games, and at that time all wars were to stop and all Greeks were to unite under their common ...

Tour 5271 / 0820
Sep 2, 2007

... Olympia which was 2 hours away from Patros. We got there about 12.30pm and went straight to our hotel which was called the Olympia Palace. Cosmos have done us well again as it is great. Air Conditioning, King size bed and a balcony which has allowed us to ...

From Athens to Olympia
Jul 6, 2004 (8 photos)

... was the Palace of Agamemnon at Mycenae. We walked through the Gate of the Lions and saw the sinister beehive tomb before arriving in Olympia where the games were first held in 776 BC. We got to Olympia late at night. Had dinner went for a walk through the ...

Ancient Olympia
Jun 7, 2009 (7 photos)

From Areopoli and the Mani Peninsula we headed by car to Olympia and Andritsena, Greece Olympia was the location of the ancient Olympic games which were held very 4 years from 776BC to 393AD- that’s over 1,000 years. Consider that when realizing ...

Greece
Jun 11, 2009

... ; Katie came along looking like the goddess, Nike Athena.  Good fun!    I had a wonderful run this morning through Olympia and along roads lined with olive tree groves.  It was the birds and me at sunrise!  I thought I could hear ...

blankety blank, another day in greece
Apr 19, 2004

Ancient Olympia (I'm back, I'm pretending I'm there cos I was too busy eating and sleeping en route). Beautiful red bud/Judas trees, fine pure air, the fallen temple of Zeus which they're trying to reconstruct for the Games in August (HA!). I spooshed ...

Olympia at Night
Nov 19, 2005 (3 photos)

... Sparta. The ruins there were pretty disappointing, so we continued on our journey, via a stopover in Tripoli. When we finally arrived in Olympia, it was close to 11pm and it was pouring rain. We had no idea where to go, but thankfully a Japanese girl also ...

Final sea day - Cruise 3
Jul 18, 2008

This was the final sea day as we prepare to reenter the Venetian canals tomorrow morning.  This itinerary held many half or whole sea days, so those guests looking for more ship relaxation time and less long port days all in a row would enjoy this ...

Ancient Olympia and Cape Sounion
Nov 20, 2007 (8 photos)

not quite fulfilling the Olympic dream, but got close to feel it.

let the games begin
Aug 19, 2005

... the DeMartino's, I decided to explore a little Greek history. I took a bus, a ferry, a taxi and a train to get to Olympia and the site of the ancient Olympic games. The museum has some of the best examples of classical sculpture I've ever seen. But the ...

Olympia, Mikines, Mystras, Sparta - Its non stop!
Oct 30, 2005

... ___________________________________________________________ 30 Oct, Sunday Start point: Krestena End point: Agrapidochori, near Simopoulo Via: Olympia Odom(Km): 74.96 Moving(hrs.mim): 4.41 Ave(Km/h): 16.0 Total ...

Long trip to Greece
May 7, 2007

We arrived in Patras, Greece and made our way to Olympia, Greece were the Olympic games were furst started.  No accomadation, but guide book lead use to a cheap youth hostel after the usual being lost and confuse.  The direction and street signs ...

olympic sport of hitching
Sep 23, 2003

... train station, and a train came, and took me where I wanted to go, it was splendid. And even though I arrived in Olympia a couple hours after sunset and was starving, believe it or not, I managed to procure some sustenance and avert a dinnerless night. Oh ...

Olympia
Jun 22, 2008 (10 photos)

... we reached greener areas along the coast, but even there we saw evidence of scattered fires. The most upsetting was around Zacharo and at Olympia itself. As we saw when we arrived and walked the site, the fires had burned to the edge of town, to the edge ...

Built by giants time out of mind ago: Mykenai
Jun 22, 2008 (9 photos)

... ) Byzantine (330 - 1453 CE)   More info on the Wiki here -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece "Prehistoric" literally means before literacy, something that was gained in ancient Greece, sometime during the Minoan era, then lost in ...

Olympia
Feb 4, 2008 (56 photos)

... left a mark on Olympia. Olympia the next morning was fantastic, I got up early enough to watch the sun rise on Olympia, at breakfast and waited for the archeological site to open. The site was very cool especially reading about the history of the ...

Olympia
May 12, 2008 (5 photos)

... toured the sites of Patras while we were in Olympia. Hmmmm, after seeing all the Roman ruins, walled cities, fountains etc. in Italy - Olympia was disappointing to say the least. It was good to see it and get a feel for the size of it but the ...

Olympia Greece: Birthplace of the Olympics
Apr 22, 2008 (9 photos)

Historic sight of the first Olympic games