Peloponnese 4-Day Food & Sightseeing Tour: Corinth – Olympia – Sparta – Mystras – Arcadia Mountains & Monasteries- Wine Tasting & more!
€2,500
It’s for those that love history, culture, landscape, authenticity but are also food lovers!
A fully flexible and PRIVATE 4-day food & culture experience for those seeking a personalized tour a long way away from the tourist traps. Every day is a different experience adding up to what you need to do, see & more importantly taste.
Visit and explore the Corinth Canal and the Unesco World Heritage sites of Ancient Corinth & Ancient Olympia or Sparta with Mystras. Taste wine in the most famous vineyard area; picturesque Nemea. Explore the stalagmite/stalactite formations in the Chambers of Wonder at Kapsia Caves.
You will experience a different, unique, authentic food treat every day. However, there is the food & cooking specific day, when you’ll enjoy a privately catered/prepared lunch with drinks from the perfect Greek housewife & cook at the top of the Arcadia mountain range. The most relaxed day of the four!
On a different day, we’ll hike (not a lot!), explore the amazing cliff-hanging monasteries and watch local life & people that very few visitors will experience. We cross the Lousios river bridge to see a small part of the Ancient Gortys ruins; a big city of the past hidden under the mountain grounds.
You stay at an amazing location away from the big city of Athens; saving yourselves the traveling back & forth every day.
Enjoy, like a Greek would, the real & authentic hospitality that this country is famous for, with the help of your tour leader.
It’s a fully flexible tour, so you can adjust the itinerary to skip or add sites or activities depending on your likes & dislikes. The options are limitless; more wine tasting or less wine tasting? more or less historic & cultural sites? landscape & mountains? hiking? people? evening exploring? Olympia or Mystras & Sparta or both!
Duration: 4days – 3nights
Language: English
Departure: 8:00 a.m. from Athens or Nafplio
You can book this tour online now. Pricing shown is for 1 or 2 people (not per person).
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This is a “different” food and culture tour away from the usual touristy “stuff.” Ideal tour for those looking to visit some amazing sites without wasting time driving in & out of Athens, but instead base themselves and overnight at an authentic “Greek” location facing the gorge of Mainalon range. For up to 8 (related only) people but we can do bigger groups too.
Day 1: Corinth Canal – Ancient Corinth – Nemea Wine Tasting – Chambers of Wonder Caves
The Corinth Canal connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnese from the Greek mainland, arguably making the peninsula an island.
Ancient Corinth (Archaia Korinthos) was inhabited in the Neolithic period (6500-3250 BC) but the big prosperity begins in the 8th century BC. Corinth was a city-state on the Isthmus (canal) of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnese to the mainland of Greece, roughly halfway between Athens and Sparta.
Wine tasting at one of the many wineries of the Nemea area in Corinth; the Greek Napa Valley!
Ancient Nemea. Authentic Greek lunch & drinks! An important part of all 4 days!
Kapsia Cave. Visit the amazing Chambers of Wonder of the Kapsia cave with its beautiful formations of stalagmites and stalactites. One of the 10 most impressive caves in Greece that ranks among the top 100 that have been deemed suitable for exploitation from a total of approximately 7,500 nationwide.
Day 2: Ancient Olympia & Museum
Archaeological Site of Olympia is one of the most influential ancient Greek sanctuaries, located in western Peloponnese, in Elis. It is positioned in a serene and rich valley at the confluence of the Alpheios and the Kladeos rivers. In antiquity, it was famous beyond the borders of mainland Greece for hosting the Olympic Games every four years, starting in 776 BCE.
Lagkadia village; the stone builders’ home. We access Olympia through the top of the Arcadia mountain range passing by the beautiful villages which are the home of the first stone builders in Greece.
Day 3: The Cooking Experience; maybe the highlight of the tour.
We do a short drive through the Arcadia mountains to meet your lady cook for today, enjoying Greek coffee or even Ouzo on the way. She will open her home for us to watch and taste her traditional cooking. And of course, we will know all about your likes & dislikes to make lunch a treat!
Lousios River. We explore the amazing Lousios gorge and the river while waiting to be treated to our lunch & drinks. Lunch and drinks the way even locals would love to do.
Day 4: The Arcadia cliff-hanging monasteries, Ancient Gortys & the Water Power Museum
Offshore Hydropower Museum. The open-air museum highlights the importance of water-power in traditional society. Focusing on the main pre-industrial techniques that take advantage of water to produce a variety of goods, it links them to the history and daily life of the local society over the ages.
Moni Agiou Ioanni Prodromou. The most amazing cliff-hanging monastery!
The Menalon Trail. It grows to a length of 75 km. It passes through the villages of Stemnitsa, Dimitsana, Zygovisti, Elati, Vytina, Nymfasia, Magouliana, Valtessiniko, Lagadia most of which we will see while exploring. We will walk and follow the trail signs to one of the monasteries.
Stemnitsa. The jewelers’ village! Beautiful, authentic, stone-built! Our lunch place before heading back to Athens via a different route through the forests and the mountains.
Ancient Gortys. It is among the most important Arcadian cities of the ancient world. Remnants that have come to light include fragments of the old fortification, ruins of houses and public buildings, a sanctuary of Asclepius and baths that were probably connected to this deity, with a curative purpose. The baths are among the most important ones to be discovered from the ancient world. They included a special heating system, which was considered by the researchers to be an Arcadian innovation.
In antiquity, it was one of the most important cities of Arcadia and, according to what little is known, one of the oldest.
The city is situated next to River Lousios, at an altitude of 350 meters in mountainous Arcadia. It was one of the stops on the route followed by Spartan athletes when traveling to compete in the Olympic Games, as the ancient road of Olympia – Megalopolis – Mycenae – Corinth Canal – Athens passed through here.
Day Χ-Option: Sparta, Mystras & Olive Oil Museum
This is an alternative for this tour. It includes a day visit to Ancient Sparta and more importantly the Byzantine Castle town of Mystras. This will allow you to substitute any of the other days aiming to adjust the tour to include what you enjoy most. So, for example, if culture, ruins, and history is your thing, you can skip the monasteries of Day4 and do both Olympia and Sparta/Mystras.
Mystras will also include a visit to the famous statue of King Leonidas of the 300 and the Olive Oil Museum in Sparta. Plus, this is the area to buy olive oil from and take home with you!
PS. Peloponnese is the BEST region in Greece and the options are limitless. So, there are even more options for this great tour but is beyond the scope of this description to drive you crazy with information :).
☼ Private tour!
☼ Hotel/airbnb/cruiseship pickup and drop-off.
☼ Private driver/guide.
☼ Non-smoking vehicle and driver.
☼ Three-night accommodation (including breakfast), all arranged at awesome stonebuilt countryside guesthouse/hotel. It is based on double or triple occupancy depending on your group/family. Contact us if in doubt.
☼ Lunch is also included on all 4 days and at selected locations. You might discover that this is a food tour that is included … within the tour!
☼ Each person is allowed one normal size suitcase and a small carry-on bag.
☼ Full and detailed itinerary of the trip.
☼ In-car bottled water & information booklet.
☼ Evenings out transport.
☼ Flexible itinerary.
☼ Free online consultation for all aspects of your planning and staying in Greece from the first moment you book the trip or any other day or multi-day trips of Eudaimonia. We will answer all your questions based on our insider knowledge and experience (best location to stay, eating out, safety, tips, dos & donts, etc).
☼ Optional: Vegetarian lunch can be arranged in most cases. Please let us know in advance.
☼ Excess luggage not allowed.
☼ Entrance to the sites.
☼ Dinner.
☼ Professional guide (optional).
☼ Shopping/touristy stops unless specifically required.
☼ Gratuities (optional).
The total price for up to 2 persons is €2,500.
For larger groups -of 3 or more people- please contact us to get the best rate depending on the exact number of people and age group. Also, if you are just a single person, we will provide a discount. All our vehicles are brand new (2018-2020). For 1-3 people, a large four-door saloon vehicle is used for the trip, whereas for 3 or more people a large minivan is used.
Payments made by Paypal are subject to an additional cost of 5% which the client must include in the amount and corresponds to the fees Paypal charges on all transactions.
From your Athens hotel, airbnb, or cruise ship (Piraeus port), Nafplio or a pre-arranged meeting point very near to your location. For other starting locations please contact us.
You can arrange to include two different wine tasting locations/wineries.
Please contact us for details, availability, and pricing. Not all add-ons can be included in all of our tours, either because of time limitations or because of the time of the year.
It is the magic of the Greek countryside, islands, local communities, food/drink plus the more efficient exploring of Greece’s best parts that have created this attitude of ours to tempt people to plan multiday tours away from the big city of Athens. So here are our suggestions to further explore and enjoy overnight at unique locations:
(a) Optionally extend your plan by one day to include Nafplio, Mycenae & Ancient Epidaurus.
(b) Furthermore, add the popular Odontotos rack railway, the Cave of Lakes tour, and the Mega Spilaio Monastery.
Please contact us for details and pricing.
☼ Children must be accompanied by an adult.
☼ Due to uneven surfaces, this tour is not suitable for people with walking disabilities or using a wheelchair. If in doubt, please contact us!
☼ If canceled due to bad weather (remember this is Greece, so… almost impossible!) or any other extreme situation, you will be given the option of an alternative date or full refund.
☼ We are flexible and the duration of the tour is flexible, so there is no rushing during the tour.
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ALL TOURS AND SERVICES HAVE THE FOLLOWING CANCELLATION POLICY
For “booking” dates on or after July 1, 2020
☼ Cancellations made greater than 15 days prior to the scheduled tour date will be fully refunded.
☼ Cancellations made between 7 to 15 days prior to the scheduled tour date will be refunded 80% of the agreed total tour fee.
☼ Cancellations made within 7 days of the scheduled tour date will be refunded 50% of the agreed total tour fee.
☼ Cancellations made within 48 hours prior to the scheduled tour date will incur a 100% charge.
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In all other cases: Eudaimonia reserves the right to make subtle changes to tour itineraries. Eudaimonia reserves the right to substitute vehicles and/or drivers should they arise. Eudaimonia reserves the right to change or cancel your booking in accordance with operating requirements or circumstances beyond its control. Should change and/or cancellation prove necessary we will give you reasonable notice thereof, in the circumstances, & where available, offer you a comparable alternative. If an alternative is not available or acceptable you will be entitled to either a full refund or monies paid by you to us or you can transfer to another Eudaimonia tour without payment of any transfer fee.
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Eudaimonia is not responsible for the costs of any other travel arrangements affected due to our cancellations or rescheduling of any tour departure.
The client’s booking does not cover travel insurance. Eudaimonia strongly recommends that the client purchases travel insurance.
Dietary requirements must be requested from clients and forwarded at the time of booking or at least one week before the tour.
VALIDITY
The above terms and conditions are valid for all booking dates from July 1st, 2020 to December 31st, 2021.
Any tours booked on previous dates (before July 1st, 2020) are subject to the initially agreed terms which, in all cases, would have been “non-refundable”. However, following the COVID-19 issues, it is also offered credit for the rescheduling of such tours until December 31st, 2021.
