The essential Cyclades in a week
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora, Discovery, Adventure / Sports & Leisure, Free time, Relaxation / Well-being.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne.
Where to stay - Akrotiri ?
The map of your stay "The essential Cyclades in a week"
Detail of the stay : The essential Cyclades in a week
How to get there - Akrotiri
Athens
Acropolis tour and lunch in Plaka. Walk in the Agora, the temple of Zeus, and climb up to Parliament instead of the National Gardens. A look at the guard and coffee on Kolonaki Square. In the afternoon, ascent to Lycabettus Hill and dinner in Psiri or Gazi, in the new trendy areas of Athens.
Departure for Santorini
Departure by plane (30 minutes) or by boat, from Piraeus (between 5 and 7 hours). Spectacular arrival on this rocky island, shaped by the convulsions of the volcano, with its white houses on the side of cliffs. Stroll in Fira but sleep in Oia.
Oia Oia
From sunrise to sunset on the Caldeira. A possible excursion to the nearby island of Thirassia, the "antithesis" preserved from Santorini, separated from the island following a volcanic explosion.
Excursion on the volcano
Steps: Akrotiri
Swimming in the warm waters of the volcano. In the afternoon visit the site of Akrotiri, Greek "Pompeii", and walk on Red Beach, a few hundred metres lower.
Tinos
Steps: OIa - Ia
Visit of the church of the Miraculous Virgin and walk to the village of Triantaros, 5 km away.
Places of interest : ÉGLISE DE LA PANAGIA PLATSANI
Excursion to Delos
Visit of the famous open-air museum island, testimony of a lost world. Return to Athens.
