Athina Hotel Olympia
, Krestena Olympia, Peloponnese, 27055, Greece
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Day 15: PATRAS–OLYMPIA. Wednesday 13 July
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CITY: Olympia
Olympia Archaeological Site
This ancient site is the most famous of Greek sanctuaries, where Zeus was worshipped and where his ivory and gold statue was counted among the ...
Birthplace of the Olympics
... a wander. The others were complaining how hot it was (34C), but I was loving it. I admired my last view of the Acropolis and then back to the hotel for my taxi to the bus port. This time, Athens was a lot more safer feeling – maybe because it was a weekday and loads of people going about their business. Maybe I was too harsh criticising it before, however it does remind me a lot of the movie 'I am Legend’ with Will Smith where the planet is over-run by zombies ...
Olympia - home of the ancient Olympic Games
... commissioned by Phillip of Macedon and later completed by his son, Alexander the Great. Given that the Ancient Olympic Games played such an important part of life back then, we reasoned it probable that Phillip and Alexander most likely would have visited this site to inspect a temple they had commissioned. To think that we were likely standing on the same spot as these giants ...
Olympia, Greece
... as could be interpreted.
We then travelled to Athens where we attended an evening tour of the Plaka district and saw the Acropolis by night. The Greeks have a thing for dogs. Stray dogs roam the streets and the people feed them so the amount of dog **** per square meter ...
Big site... small town.
... a photo at the start (finish) line. We goofed up, we posed at the wrong side then went back after the tourist left to pose at the correct start line. We like to be different.
We walked through ruins for several hours, what a marvelous place (that's for you Justin) It's fascintating to think we were walking through places ancient Greeks walked through during the first Olympics. To think they competed in August during the high heat. It's unbelieveable. Today was so hot I would die if ...



