Visit the Highlights of Santorini island.
Overview
Welcome to Santorini! Come and check out this fantastic offer that gives you the opportunity to visit Akrotiri excavations, the unique Red beach and Fira, the island’s capital town.
Inclusions
- Private transportation
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Local English speaking licensed guide
- English speaking professional driver
- Bottled water
What to expect
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Fira, Fira, Santorini, Cyclades, South Aegean
We start our tour visiting Fira, the economic, political and commercial center of the island. Fira is a town of white-washed houses built on the edge of the 400 metres high caldera. Do not miss the chance to discover the heart of the city. You can take the opportunity to do some shopping or just enjoy the views until our departure to Akrotiri.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Akrotiri Archaeological Site, Akrotiri 84700 Greece
Akrotiri is a small fishing village but the fact that such a spectacle civilization had been developed here 3.600 years ago makes it a special destination and a definitely must see. The ancient city of Akrotiri is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean. The eruption (1600 B.C.) covered with lava the traditional city and preserved it in an excellent condition
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Red Beach, Akrotiri Greece
Next stop is at the unique Red beach , free time for taking fantastic photos.
Duration: 30 minutes
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Fira, Fira, Santorini, Cyclades, South Aegean
We start our tour visiting Fira, the economic, political and commercial center of the island. Fira is a town of white-washed houses built on the edge of the 400 metres high caldera. Do not miss the chance to discover the heart of the city. You can take the opportunity to do some shopping or just enjoy the views until our departure to Akrotiri.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Akrotiri Archaeological Site, Akrotiri 84700 Greece
Akrotiri is a small fishing village but the fact that such a spectacle civilization had been developed here 3.600 years ago makes it a special destination and a definitely must see. The ancient city of Akrotiri is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean. The eruption (1600 B.C.) covered with lava the traditional city and preserved it in an excellent condition
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Red Beach, Akrotiri Greece
Next stop is at the unique Red beach , free time for taking fantastic photos.
Duration: 30 minutes
Additional information
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Infant seats available
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Most travelers can participate
- Face masks required for travelers in public areas
- Face masks required for guides in public areas
- Face masks provided for travelers
- Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
- Social distancing enforced throughout experience
- Regularly sanitized high-traffic areas
- Gear/equipment sanitized between use
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
- Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Ticket delivery
You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.
Cancellation
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience.
Tommy599
December 2022
This island is the remnant of the rim of ONE GIGANTICE volcanic caldera, much of which was blasted away by a huge eruption in 1615 BC. The remains of the main island are about 12 miles long and 6 miles wide. This island looks like an ideal honeymoon destination! The town of Fira is perched on ...
This island is the remnant of the rim of ONE GIGANTICE volcanic caldera, much of which was blasted away by a huge eruption in 1615 BC. The remains of the main island are about 12 miles long and 6 miles wide. This island looks like an ideal honeymoon destination! The town of Fira is perched on the caldera rim, about 1,000 feet above the water. To get there, we took a funicular (a cable car) for an approximately 5-minute ride to ascend to the town. If you like there are mules, you can ride up to the town. WOW the gleaming white houses of Fira all look down hundreds of feet to the bay with a fantastic view out each window. We walked through town to the local museum that houses all the relics and decorative wall mosaic recovered from the ancient town we will visit later today the cliffside village of Oia. Oia is at the other end of the big island that is part of the rim of the Caldara (We thus covered both ends of the island extensively). We walked around for about one hour visiting shops and a view down into the water-covered caldera of the dormant volcano, while exploring the beautiful blue-and-white Church of Panagia Platsani in the village center. Most of the windmills where originally used to turn wheat into flour, but they went into disuse hundreds of years ago. Recent rebuild of the windmills have turned some into actual functioning units, but most are just a decorative object slightly turning in the wind for the tourist to admire or some structures turned into homes.