Akrotiri Excavation, Oia & Fira Town

Enjoy a short trip by local boat to Athenios harbour after which you will meet your guide and vehicle and proceed to the archeological site of Akrotiri. Often compared to Pompeii, Akrotiri infact is much older. Its amazingly well preserved ruins date back to the second millennium BC. As you walk through well-kept passageways past beautiful pottery, two and three story houses, roads and squares, you will get a feel for what life must have been like in the city 3,500 years ago.

Later we’ll continue on through the beautiful countryside to Oia village. The village’s magnificent location, perched on the northern part of the caldera rim, has inspired many artists over the years. A guided tour combined with free time will be offered. After Oia, we will drive to Fira town. Fira is another attractive town located on the edge of a Caldera where the land slopes gently in one direction and falls steeply to the sea in the other. There you will have the choice either to enjoy the town at your leisure or perhaps return directly to your ship in the spectacular cable car.