This Greek Islands hopping tour gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sea and the sun visiting as many islands as possible and get a good taste of them. This is low budget tour for those they want to see more in short time and are not willing to pay too much.
DAY 1: ATHENS: Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred to your selected hotel. Balance of the day at leisure.
DAY 2: ATHENS: Morning sightseeing tour of Athens including all famous monuments: House of Parliament, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Adrian’s Arch, Temple of the Olympian Zeus, the Royal Palace, the Academy, the University and the National Library. Tour will end by visiting the Acropolis and the new Acropolis Museum, “State of the art” in museum construction and very rich in content. (On Mondays the Acropolis Museum is closed)
Afternoon free to visit the old Athens city (Plaka) with lots of restaurants, taverns and souvenir shops .
DAY 3: ATHENS – PAROS: At the indicated time, you will be transferred to the port in order to embark the ferryboat to Paros. Upon your arrival on the island, transfer to your hotel.
DAY 4: PAROS: Day at leisure in Paros, one of the most beautiful Greek Islands, to enjoy the sea and the sun or visit one of the countless small churches all over the island. Not to miss the Ekatontapiliani Byzantine church in Parikia nor the nearby archaeological site. The capital, Parikia, situated on a bay on the north-west side of the island, occupies the site of the ancient capital Paros. Shadowed by luxuriant vines, and surrounded by gardens of oranges and pomegranates, the houses give the town a picturesque aspect.
DAY 5: PAROS – NAXOS: At the indicated time, you will be transferred to the port in order to embark the ferryboat to Naxos. Upon your arrival on the island, transfer to your hotel.
DAY 6: NAXOS: Free day in Naxos to enjoy the sun and the clear blue waters of the Aegean see and to taste the local cuisine and especially the cheese of the area known all over Greece. Naxos is also known, not within the Greek Islands but also in the whole Greece for its potatoes.
Naxos is the largest island in the Cyclades island group in the Aegean. It was the centre of archaic Cycladic culture.
Naxos is the most fertile island of the Cyclades.
DAY 7: NAXOS – IOS: At the indicated time, you will be transferred to the port in order to embark the ferryboat to Ios. Upon your arrival on the island, transfer to your hotel.
A good opportunity to explore this island. Magnificent small bays, mountains with chapels, vineyards and beautiful sandy beaches. Ios is also famous for its incredible night life. Ios is a hilly island with cliffs down to the sea on most sides. Ios attracts a large number of young tourists, many of whom used to sleep on their sleeping bags during the 1970s on the popular beach of Mylopotas after partying through the night. Today Mylopotas beach has been developed to an equivalent mass package tourism resort like Platys Gialos and Paradise Beach of Mykonos.
DAY 9: IOS – SANTORINI: At the indicated time, you will be transferred to the port in order to embark the ferryboat to Santorini. Upon your arrival on the island, transfer to your hotel.
DAY 10: SANTORINI: Today enjoy a half day cruise to the small islands of Nea Kameni & Palea Kameni located inside the caldera, the Hot Springs with the green and yellow waters (with free time for swimming) and the island of Thirassia.
Pick up from your hotel and transfer to Vlyhada marina.
Orientation with the boat and sailing on the south coast of the island.
We will pass near the red and white beaches and continue sailing the deep blue waters of the Aegean Sea to the Caldera. Near the Nea Kameni (volcano island) we will see the old port and then go to Palea Kameni and Thirasia. We will see the hot springs with green and yellow waters and have time for swimming here or in another place depending on the season of the year.
We continue sailing below Imerovigli, Firostefani and Fira towns and will arrive in Vlyhada marina.
Transfer to your hotel
DAY 11: SANTORINI – ATHENS: At the indicated time, you will be transferred to the port in order to embark the ferryboat back to Piraeus. Upon your arrival on the island, transfer to your selected hotel.
DAY 12: ATHENS – AIRPORT: At the indicated time, you will be transferred to the airport for your departure flight.