Greece Travel Guide

Most people choose to visit Greece for its long sandy beaches and varying landscapes, but Greece offers the visitor more than just beach resorts and attractive scenery. Historic sites, endless coastline, and the diverse influences that make up modern Greece make it a fantastic destination to discover and explore. Our Greece travel guide is a great resource for the planning of your trip, we have researched attractions, events and useful telephone numbers to give you a head start in the preparation for your trip.

Greece Tourist Board The official website for the Greek National Tourist Office – a useful resource for planning your trip to Greece or the Greek Islands.

Things to see and do

• Greece offers some good locations for windsurfing, the best locations for this are Vassiliki on Lefkada, Kefalos on Kos, Kokkari on Samos, Lalisos on Rhodes, Chrisi Akti on Paros, and Agios Georgios and Mikri Vigla on Naxos.
• The shallow fast flowing rivers of mainland Greece offer excellent facilities for water based adventure sports such as rafting, kayaking and canoeing. Sea kayaking is also becoming popular on the Greek Islands.
• Take part in some wine tasting at one of the various vineyards which open their cellars to the public.
• There are numerous thermal springs, visit one of the various spas and hydrotherapy centres which have developed around these throughout the country and get some well deserved pampering as part of your trip.
• A visit to Greece is not complete until you have visited one of its world famous archaeological sites.
• Visit Athens and the great Acropolis and the surrounding area and museum at the summit and ruins of this ancient city.
• Stay in one of the popular tourist resorts on one of the Greek Islands where there are lots of opportunities to enjoy the sun, sea and sand.
• Visit Meteora, the exquisite Byzantine monasteries of Meteora, perched on top pinnacles of rock; these are arguably Mainland Greece’s most extraordinary sight.
• You may be lucky enough to see a loggerhead sea turtle as the Ionian islands is home to one of the Mediterranean’s main concentrations of the endangered loggerhead sea turtle.
• Vikos Gorge in the Zagori regions offers a lovely setting for hiking and some spectacular views.
• Visit the Temple of Poseidon on Cape Sounio, it is dramatically set on a cliff above the cape and is a familiar landmark to boats at sea.
• See the dormant volcano on the island of Nissyros.

Festivals and events

• Athens Festival, includes a range of performances including modern and ancient theatre, ballet, opera, jazz and classical music, most of the performances are held at the open-air Herodes Atticus Theatre. (February-March).
• Independence Day and Annunciation is a religious and a national holiday. There are major festivities in many towns. (March 25)
• The feast of Ayios Yeoryios (St George), the patron of Shepherds, is a big rural celebration, there is much feasting and dancing at many towns. (April 23).
• Night of the Full Moon – on the night of the full moon in August, Athens opens up its monuments and archaeological sites to the public for free (August).
• Dodoni Festival – performances at the Ancient Theatre of Dodoni (July-September).
• Dhimitria Cultural Festival takes place in Thessaloniki. (October).

Useful Telephone Numbers

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