Ya Sou (Hello) from Delphi. We started the morning with a typical Greek breakfast - coffee/juice, Greek yogurt and bread. They threw in cereal, milk, ham and cheese for us tourists to keep us happy, but at least one us wasn't. Opa!

Our Delphi Hotel

Normal room

Lucky room

We packed and went to the Delhi ruins. We toured the museum and walked the ruins with our tour guide for a few hours.

Outside the Delphi museum

 a recovered Sphinx

rare twin statues found

rare whole bronze statue found

model of Deplhi / Appollo's temple

ruins

more ruins

recorded history (that's how they know so much)

 Apollo's storehouse 

Temple of Apollo / home to the Oracles

possible floor piece of the Oracle's tripod chair

The hole is where the gases entered (mind altering / vision inducing gases)

at Apollo's temple

the Roman amphitheater

Apollo's temple ruins

at ancient Olympic arena / track

Picture stop at the picturesque mountain ski town of Arahova.

 

Lunch was on the way to Athens. Most chose to follow the waiter's recommendation and had a nice Greek country lunch. We arrived in Athens late afternoon. Talk about traffic.

Tonight we get our special Greek night out. More to follow.

Here it is:

A quick stop for ice cream

 

 



A walk thru some shopping areas.

The first Greek Orthodox cathedral

More shopping

dinner (that's Stelleos, our tour guide)

A night of Greek music and dancing

Greek Island dancers in costume

 

 

Latest night of the trip. Up early tomorrow for the Athens sites - Acropolis and Parthenon.