Day 1
Waiting - 17 hrs total travel
our first sighting of Greece
Specifically Athens
Nice alphabet...
All the gear ,none of the time ??
Sights...
Not very western European....
Home in Athens
Eat and crash , zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Day 2
Today we explore...
Our usual ride...
The city is quite interesting.
First we start at the port.
This has been a port for about 2500 years...
Nice views...
The Aegean sea :-) :-)
Unfortunately a lot of this here...
Typical Greek fishing village scene
Oopps :-P
Now to the city proper...
Interesting :-P
We are headed up there
To see the most famous sight in Greece
As we work our way up...views..
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Seen as we make out way up
Thousands of years old...
Getting ready for a concert...
The city of Athens
A last look...
Still a ways up...
Here is the entrance...
Majestic...
The marble is worn with centuries of use...
More views...
Majestic columns...
So cool...
And here we are...
This is the temple of Posiden and Athena...
Carved so long ago..
Back to the main attraction...
Huge...
Really huge...
But awesome..
Don't check out the chicks ah...:-P
Nice huh...
This is what it originally looked like -wiki pic
In 1897 the Americans built a full scale copy.Cool huh.
After that awesome experience ..
The Theatre of Dionysus...
Temple of Zeus...
Leaving the Acropolis...
Now to see this up close...
First this...
Hadrian's arch...
Looking up at the Acropolis...
Now the Temple of Zeus proper
Massive columns...
Now we get a sense of scale
The acropolis in the background
Then we visit the Hippodrome...
This is a reconstruction at the actual site
Because there are earthquakes here.
Big huh...
The rest of the world were living in shacks...
Long day...
A short visit to the museum..
Sphinx..
A classic Grecian urn
Huge carvings...
Statue of Zeus...
My take home souvenir was one of this...
Ancient medical tools----2000++ years ago
I thought these were brooms...Papyrus to make paper..ha ha ha
So cool .Ancient Egyptian boomerang...
A real sarcophagus
A life sized painted statue.
Gold...
A long day but fulfilling.
Day 3
We saw all we wanted in Athens in the first day touring so what to do now?
My ride.
Time to visit a real place of legend.
Countryside views.
Finally reached...
The oracle of Delphi.....so damn cool...
Built on a side of the mountain.
People from all over the world came here..for thousands of years.
Ancient treasury.
The site of the temple of the oracle.
In its heyday
I heard of this since i started reading .
Going up...
What views.
Nice huh.
Further up...
An amphitheater.
Beautiful huh.
OOooooooooooooooo :-)
Even further up...
How did they do all of this?
There was a stadium even higher up but we had enough...Time for a break...
Then visit the Delphi museum.
Lots of gold.
Helmet crest :-)
Delphi layout..
Amazing...
This has been amazing so far...
A short lunch...
Then back to Athens...
All this is just common.
The real fun starts tomorrow :-)
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