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five or six Day Greece Excursion Help

I will be traveling to Greece Five/28-6/Two. I am traveling by myself and I am a woman in my 20s. I am flying into Athens and won’t arrive until nine pm on the 28th. I am looking to see the main historical sites in Athens, but would also like to unwind on the beach. Also, I love adventure-type activities, like snorkeling for example, or that yam-sized gorge that everyone hikes. I like going to restaurants and loving good food, but I don’t foresee going out to bars or anything like that because I am a youthfull lady traveling by myself.

According to your arrival/departure days, you will only have four total days in Greece.

I am afraid that you will not have enough time to visit any islands, as transfer to an island and back is very time consuming.

You could spend these four days in Athens and do some day trips.

You can book these tours through any hotel, i would recommend walking around at Syntagma Square and ask a few travel agencies for the price. You might get a better price.

There are also G.O Tours, Talk Tours, all have similar prices tho’

Plus the Plaka and Kolonaki, both areas where you can walk around have lunch and do some people watching.

These are safe areas, you won’t have any safety problems as a single female.

Thank you so much! I was thinking I could do everything in Athens on the 29th and 30th, then the evening of the 30th go to an island and stay there over night and wake up in the morning and go to a beach. Then that evening, go to a different island and spend the next day there. Will that not work?

I don’t leave until late on the night of the 2nd, or I may book a flight on the morning of the 3rd.

I like the very first posters suggestions. We spent two weeks in Nafplio (a super little town) and did day trips from there. Then added on time in Athens and Santorini. There is so much to see in Greece that is unique to Greece that I wouldn’t take time for the beach. I know you love it, but there are so many unusual sites to see that it would be a shame to miss them for sand. Spend a duo days in Athens, take a tour to the Peloponnese, visit Mycenae and Epidaurus,(there is a beach in Nafplio if you must), and maybe hit the island of Hydra. The culture of ancient Greece is it’s core, don’t miss it.

This is just a refreshment journey when I’m done with my very first year of law school, so the beach is a big interest of mine.

Another option would be the following :

28/Five Overnight near the Athens Airport

29/Five Early flight to Mykonos

1/6 Early flight to Athens

Trio/6 Flight from Athens to your next destination

On Two/6 you’ll have the entire day at disposition to visit the National Archeological Museum or any of the other museums or just detect Athens.

Here is a hotel that offers free transfer from/to Airport and has a reasonable price.

I was thinking I could do everything in Athens on the 29th and 30th, then the evening of the 30th go to an island and stay there over night and wake up in the morning and go to a beach. Then that evening, go to a different island and spend the next day there. Will that not work?

Thank you do much for your reply, I like the Mykonos idea very much. Would there be any options for me to go to either Milos, Paros, Santorini, or Sifnos? If not, I am ideally content with going to Mykonos, I am just attempting to check out all my options before booking anything. For example, i read online that you could get to Sifnos from Piraeus in two hours on a high speed ferry. Let me know your thoughts. Again, I’m not looking to go to museums or go out to bar at night truly, Id like to go to the beach, perhaps go windsurfing (which I’ve heard is fine in Paros), and I would love to visit a hit spring. Thanks again for all your help, I truly appreciate it!

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