1 day

Private

Full Day

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Itinerary
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Stop At: Offshore Hydropower Museum, Kefalari Ai-Yianni, Dimitsana 220 07 Greece

The openair 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.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Lousios River, Lousios Gorge, Dimitsana Greece

One of the most historic villages in Greece, at the center of the Mythical Peloponnese.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Moni Agiou Ioanni Prodromou, Stemnitsa Greece

The most amazing cliff-hanging monastery!

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Pantopolion en Stemnitsa, Agias Paraskevis, Stemnitsa 220 07 Greece

The jewelers' village! Beautiful, authentic, stonebulilt! Our lunch place.

Duration: 1 hour

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Included

Private tour for 1-7 related only people
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Private local driver with very good knowledge of the sites to be visited
Brand new vehicles 2017: 1-2 people > 5 door vehicle or 3-7 people > large minivan
Non smoking vehicle and driver
Authentic Greek lunch & drinks (traditional Greek "meze") in a convenient location. The highlight of the tour
In car Wi-Fi, information booklet and bottled water
highly recommended if you enjoy the scent of countryside, food and local life]
Accommodation/breakfast in a traditional guesthouse, based on double or triple occupancy depending on your group
Exploring with your guide in the evening of Day1 & free time to self explore around our base/village
Dimitsana village & library/museum
Lunch is again your guide's/driver's treat
Visit to the beautiful Lagadia village - home of the best stonebuilders in Greece (see "Additional Info"
Lousios river, Ancient Mantineia (see "Additional info") & Kapsa cave
One suitcase & carry on bag/person
Optional white water rafting, winery visit/tasting, horse riding, icons, jewelry
Return to your base in Athens or Nafplio town/cruise ship
Lunch
Bottled water

Not included

Pickup and drop-off in areas outside of Athens or Nafplio (additional cost)
The Corinth canal stop is not included if the pick up location is Nafplio
Entrance fees to the Open Air Water-Power Museum (€ 3,00)
Excess luggage not allowed
Shopping stops, unless requested
Gratuities
Dinner on Day-1, if you optin for the 2-Day / 1 Night Tour
Entry/Admission - Offshore Hydropower Museum

Additional

Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
Not wheelchair accessible
An optional overnight stay in one of the villages' stone built guesthouses is highly recommended as a great option as a get away from Athens and enjoying the scent of real Greece and people even from the first evening. Definitely a more relaxed tour with real experiences.
A maximum of 7 related only people per booking
Each traveler is allowed one carry-on bag. Oversized or excessive luggage are not allowed for the day trip
After your booking, please specify your optional additional arrangements (white water rafting, overnight stay, dietary requirements)
Lagadia village:
A very picturesque Arcadia town with fresh water springs, two and three storey stone houses that are amphitheatrically built on a steep slope. Lagadia is the homeland of the best stone builders who for many generations built houses & churches and schools all over Arcadia, Messinia and the rest of Greece. In this way their reputation was spread everywhere in Greece. The village houses themselves are a living proof of the builders' skills and art.
At an altitude of 900 m, Lagadia is built on a steep canyon on with houses that are amphitheatrically built on the slope and facing the ravine. The beautiful central square of the Lagadia village is positioned on the edge of a ravine full of walnut trees, plane trees and fresh water streams. At this point Thoa canyon begins and stretches crossing a big part of Gortynia and eventually ending up at river Ladona.
The upper part of Lagadia, called Pano Getonia, has a magnificent view and is ideal for photo shooting. The important places to visit are the house of Deligiannis, and the historic churches of St. Taxiarchon and St. Apostolon.
Ancient Mantineia:
Ancient Mantineia was, along with Tegea, a city in ancient Arcadia. Mantineia had been a member of the Peloponnesian League, but during the Peloponnesian War, the city joined Athens.
The archaeological site includes the Ancient Theater, the ruins of the temple of Zeus, the Parliament and the ruins of the Market. The digs revealed an ancient theater, close to the Market, with its stage still intact today. The digs also revealed the temples of Iraiou and Sotiros Dios, the Parliament, a wealth of sculptures (including works by Praksitelis) which are now kept at the national Museum in Athens, as well as a Byzantine church. From the theater the stage has been dug out and is still intact, along with the orchestra and some of the lower boxes of the concave.
Just opposite the Mantineia site, the church of
Agia Foteini
is a must visit! A paradoxical church. The number of visitors to this area is not small and that’s mainly because they have heard about the ‘myth of stone’. It is exactly opposite the archaeological area of Mantinia. It is a piece of eclectic architecture. It combines ancient orders with details influenced by the byzantine period.
Kapsia Cave
The first scientific investigation Kapsia cave was in 1892 and it was opened to the public in 2011. Its size, the human remains, the plurality and the amazing colors have made the cave one the most important in Europe. Some fo the rarest and most spectacular formations of colourful stallagmites in Greece's entire speleological kingdom explored up to date, are to be found in the so-called "Chamber of Wonders. Google "spilaiokapsia" for more details.
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

Features

Tourism

95%

Cultural

55%

Reviews

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Duayne A F

5 | 2017-09-06

The trip to the mountains was spectacular...kind of scary getting there on the narrow, winding roads. The people we met on the trip were very friendly.The river rafting was a high light of the adventure. Nikos, our guide was superb. He is very knowledgeable about Greece and Greek history. He had a good sense of humor and was very gracious.

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jlt7595

5 | 2017-03-11

We had an amazing day with memorable experiences on this excursion. Our guide, Nikos, was friendly and knowledgeable and truly delivered on showing us this amazing area of Greece. We stopped at the Corinth Canal and several monasteries, where monks gave us individual tours, complete with coffee and tsipouro. We also stopped in several mountain villages where we were able to hike around old alleyways and had an authentic Greek lunch at a local coffee shop. We traveled a different path than we did on the way in and were able to see a gorgeous forest and river. The best day trip of our vacation by far! Highly recommend to anyone looking to do something outside the beaches and islands!

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