Rajah Travel Corporation

Intra Tour Air

• Intra Tour Air Athens to Heraklion

Intra Tour Air Tax

• Intra Tour Air Tax Athens to Heraklion

Transfer Airport

• ARR Chargeable Transfer Athens Airport to Hotel

• Arrival Transfer Athens Airport to Hotel

Gold Seal Protection

• Gold Seal Protection

Transfer Airport

• DEP Chargeable Transfer Hotel to Chania Airport

• Departure Transfer Hotel to Chania Airport

Dining Summary

• 14 Breakfast (B)
• 6 Dinner (D)
• 1 Lunch (L)

Choice Highlights

• Thessaloniki: Join your Local Expert for an introduction to Thessaloniki’s historic centre, exploring key districts shaped by successive empires. You’ll move through the city streets before continuing to the Upper Town for views across the harbour and Thermaic Gulf.
• Thessaloniki: Walk with your Travel Director through central markets and bakeries, tasting sesame koulouri rings, local cheeses, cured meats and bougatsa pastry. You’ll see how Balkan, Anatolian and Mediterranean influences shape the city’s everyday food culture.

Additional Included Highlights

• Personal radio headsets give you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights, without missing any of your Local Expert's fascinating commentary.
• Hotel and restaurant tips are included - you'll never have to worry about how much to give, nor search for foreign currency. We also include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.
• We carry your bags for you and promptly deliver them to your hotel door.
• From time to time, your Travel Director will delight you with an Insight Flourish, which is a local specialty representing the destination.
• Stay connected with friends and family with our complimentary coach and hotel Wi-Fi (where available).
• If your arrival and/or departure flights are as per the itinerary start and end dates, then transfers are available at scheduled times. If your flights are outside these times, or you have booked additional nights accommodation with Insight Vacations, you may purchase transfers or make your own way from/to the airport.

Authentic Dining

• Athens: Taste seasonal dishes built around olive oil, grains, legumes and coastal produce, paired with wines from native grape varieties grown across mainland and island vineyards.
• Heraklion: Share a Cretan menu with your Small Group. You’ll try island dishes such as dakos, built on barley rusk with tomato and mizithra, and kaltsounia pastries finished with honey and cinnamon. Raise a first toast with raki, Crete’s traditional grape spirit.
• Chania: Join your Small Group for dinner in a traditional Cretan restaurant. The menu features local specialities and seasonal ingredients, typically including dishes built around olive oil, vegetables, herbs and local cheeses, with regional wine served alongside.

Insight Choice

• Thessaloniki: Join your Local Expert for an introduction to Thessaloniki’s historic centre, exploring key districts shaped by successive empires. You’ll move through the city streets before continuing to the Upper Town for views across the harbour and Thermaic Gulf.
• Thessaloniki: Walk with your Travel Director through central markets and bakeries, tasting sesame koulouri rings, local cheeses, cured meats and bougatsa pastry. You’ll see how Balkan, Anatolian and Mediterranean influences shape the city’s everyday food culture.

Insight Experiences

• Athens: View key originals from the Parthenon, Erechtheion and Temple of Athena Nike, including the Caryatids and sections of the frieze. Your Local Expert will highlight how sculptural styles evolved across centuries, and explains the Parthenon frieze’s role as political storytelling during Athens’ Golden Age. 
• Vergina: Visit the Royal Tombs at Vergina with your Local Expert and see the tomb traditionally identified as Philip II’s. You’ll learn how the discovery of the burial complex reshaped understanding of Macedonian royal history and funerary practice.
• Nafplion: Meet an expert sommelier at a Nemea winery and learn about the evolution of Greek wine making, dating back to antiquity. After touring the winery, sample some of the delicious and elegant Greek wines, expertly paired with piquant local cheeses and tasty cured meats.
• Heraklion: Explore the Palace of Knossos with your Local Expert, Crete’s largest Bronze Age palace complex and traditionally linked to King Minos. You’ll walk through the Central Court and Throne Room and see reconstructed frescoes, examining how the scale, layout and surviving details reflect the administrative and ceremonial role of the site.

Make Travel Matter

Nafplion: Meet Anthony and Sophia at their family’s organic beekeeping facility in Arcadia, where three generations have tended bees with care and curiosity. Put on a beekeeper’s suit and step into the hives to witness these remarkable pollinators in action, before enjoying a guided tasting and discovering why Greek honey is prized around the world for its purity and flavour. Your visit directly supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15: Life on Land.

Tasting

Nafplion: Stop at a local olive grove to learn the steps from harvest to pressing, including how timing and temperature affect flavour. You’ll taste olive oil and learn how producers assess fruitiness, bitterness and peppery finish as markers of freshness and quality.

Top Rated Highlights

• Athens: Ascend the Acropolis with a Local Expert to admire the Parthenon, built in 5th century B.C. Steps away you'll see the Temple of Athena Nike, also known as the Temple of the Wingless Victory, and the six stone-carved caryatids that make up the Porch of the Maidens on the Erechtheion.
• Athens: See Hadrian’s Arch, built in AD 131 to mark the boundary between ancient Greek Athens and the Roman city rebuilt under Emperor Hadrian. Its inscription reflects the city’s dual identity during the Roman period.
• Thermopylae: View the monument to King Leonidas, erected near the site of the 480 BC battle between Greek forces and the Persian army of Xerxes I. The statue commemorates the Spartan-led defence of the pass, where terrain played a decisive role in delaying the Persian advance into mainland Greece.
• Metsovo: A mountain town in the Pindus range with a long Vlach heritage and a strong tradition of trade across the high passes of Epirus and Thessaly. Built on steep slopes, the town is known for stone-built houses, carved timber balconies and small churches that reflect its 18th- and 19th-century prosperity.
• Ioannina: Cruise across Lake Pamvotis to the Island of Ioannina, a rare example of an inhabited lake island. Once ashore, the lanes lead past small churches and monastic sites that connect directly to the city’s Ottoman-era history, including places linked to Ali Pasha.
• Nafpaktos: See how Nafpaktos marks the Battle of Lepanto on its waterfront, with memorial inscriptions near the Venetian harbour and a statue of Miguel de Cervantes, who fought in the 1571 naval battle. The harbour’s enclosed shape and defensive walls remain the clearest present-day reminder of why this port mattered strategically.
• Delphi: Explore Delphi with your Local Expert, following the Sacred Way past the Treasury of the Athenians and the Polygonal Wall as the sanctuary climbs the slope of Mount Parnassus. You’ll reach the Temple of Apollo and learn how the oracle’s consultations shaped decision-making across the Greek world for centuries.
• Nafplio: Join your Travel Director for an orientation of Nafplion. See why this town was chosen as Greece’s first capital after independence, with neoclassical public buildings and waterfront promenades set beneath the Palamidi fortress.
• Archaeological Site of Mycenae: Explore Mycenae with your Local Expert, entering through the Lion Gate and walking the citadel where Cyclopean walls protected one of the most powerful centres of the Late Bronze Age. You’ll visit tholos tombs and learn how archaeology connects the site to Mycenaean society, trade and kingship.
• Heraklion: Take an internal flight to Crete, your home for the next four nights
• Corinth Canal: See the Corinth Canal, opened in 1893 to cut a 6.3-kilometre passage through the Isthmus of Corinth and link the Aegean with the Ionian. From the crossing point, you’ll view the steep limestone sides and the narrow channel that shortened sea routes around the Peloponnese.
• Heraklion: Join your Travel Director for an orientation walk in Heraklion, introducing the city’s Venetian and later layers. You’ll view key landmarks including the Koules fortress on the harbour, the Venetian Loggia and Morosini Fountain, then pass Agios Titos, the Cathedral of Agios Minas and the former Monastery of St. Catherine.
• Heraklion: Visit the Heraklion Archaeological Museum with your Local Expert to view artefacts from Knossos and other Cretan sites. You’ll see Minoan ceramics, jewellery, seals and fresco fragments displayed in chronological order, offering a clear view of craftsmanship and daily life across the Bronze Age.
• Rethymno: Walk through Rethymno’s old town and see how Venetian and Ottoman layers sit side by side. You’ll follow cobbled lanes past Venetian-built houses and civic buildings, then notice Ottoman domes and minarets added after the 17th-century conquest.
• Chania: Explore Chania with your Local Expert, beginning in Splantzia. View the Church of Agios Nikolaos, built in the 14th century under Venetian rule and later converted into a mosque during Ottoman occupation, with a minaret added. Continue to the Etz Hayyim Synagogue in the Jewish quarter, restored in the 20th century and one of the few surviving Jewish monuments on Crete.

Well-being

• Enjoy the comfort of Insight's luxurious, air-conditioned, 40-seat coach with double the standard legroom and onboard washroom. Our customized luxury coaches are sanitized before the start of your tour and are maintained to very high standards. Physical distancing measures have been implemented on our customized luxury coaches.
• Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.

• Divani Palace Acropolis, New, Athens, Athens Marriott
• MonAsty, Thessaloniki
• Du Lac, Ioannina
• Ganimede, Galaxidi, Epavlis Boutique Galaxidi, Nostos, Galaxidi
• Ganimede, Galaxidi, Nostos, Galaxidi, Epavlis Boutique Galaxidi
• Ippoliti, Nafplio, 3Sixty, Nafplio, Castellano, Nafplio
• Megaron, Heraklion
• Samaria, Chania

Ancient civilizations dating back to 2700 BC, Greece has lured the most curious of travellers for centuries. Your Insight host meets you at the airport and transfers you to your hotel where you have time to settle in. Begin your time on Greece Undiscovered joining your Travel Director and fellow travellers over a delightful evening of Greek favourites and wine.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Divani Palace Acropolis, New, Athens, Athens Marriott

Sites so iconic they will leave you spellbound, starting with the Acropolis, one of the most important ancient sites in the Western world. Crowning the top is the Parthenon, visible from almost everywhere in the city. Gain further insight at the Acropolis Museum, where original sculptures and artefacts from the site, including the Caryatids and sections of the Parthenon frieze, are brought into focus by your Local Expert. View the Panathenaic Stadium where the first modern Olympic Games were held, Hadrian’s Arch, Temple of Zeus, Parliament building, the tomb of the unknown soldier and the trilogy of Athens. This evening, choose to join an optional dinner experience in lively Psiri.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Divani Palace Acropolis, New, Athens, Athens Marriott

Embark north from Athens to the mountain pass and battle site of Thermopylae. Learn how at this very spot King Leonidas led his Spartan army, along with fellow Greek soldiers, into battle against the Persians in 480 B.C. See the memorial dedicated to Leonidas and his Spartans as you pay homage. Your next stop is the archaeological park of Ancient Dion, located at the foot of Mount Olympus, the mythical home of the 12 Greek Gods illuminated by your Local Expert. Hear the insightful stories and myths of this fascinating site also known as the city of Zeus. This afternoon’s destination is Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city. After settling in, enjoy dinner in a local restaurant with northern Greek cuisine.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: MonAsty, Thessaloniki

From ancient archaeological sites to contemporary art exhibitions, the port city of Thessaloniki is yours to discover today with Insight Choice. Explore with a Local Expert, walking the quaint narrow streets of the old town or “Ano Poli” to take in views of the city below. Spot the landmark White Tower, the Rotunda Monument and the beautiful church of Saint Demetrius. Alternatively, indulge your foodie side with your Travel Director, sampling local delicacies along the way. On your walking tour of the city’s markets, taste treats such sesame rings, fragrant cheeses, cured meats and the famous bougatsa - a creamy custard and filo pastry dessert. Conclude your excursion with the stroll along the harbour, enveloped in a sea breeze and views of the White Tower.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: MonAsty, Thessaloniki

Full of curiosities, the UNESCO World Heritage site of Vergina – historically known as Aigai – is a treasure trove of important remains including a monumental palace and burial ground with more than 300 tumuli. Your Local Expert reveals the excavations and the tomb where Alexander the Great’s father Philippos is believed to be buried. Continue your discovery at the Polycentric Museum of Aigai, where you can peruse artefacts of the life, culture and history of the Kingdom of Macedonia. Culinary delights await as you visit the traditional mountain town of Metsovo, famous for its cheese and grilled meats as well as stone architecture. Stroll at your leisure and perhaps sample some of the local fare before arriving at your hotel in the lakeside town of Ioannina for dinner.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Du Lac, Ioannina

The town of Ioannina will inspire the mind of any curious traveller. Delve into its history as you walk within the castle walls of the old fortified city, the Kastro, punctuated with ancient towers. From striking architecture to natural beauty, admire the stunning Lake Pamvotis before hopping on a local boat to cruise to the Island of Ioannina. This car-free escape invites you to stroll along quiet streets, visit the Ali Pasha Museum, and see the Monastery of Saint Nicholas of Philanthropinoi. Savour the good life and perhaps treat yourself to freshly made baklava.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Du Lac, Ioannina

The Summer version of this tour will overnight in Galaxidi. The site of the Great Sea battle of Lepanto, scenery and history are revealed on your visit to the Venetian town of Nafpaktos. Begin your discovery exploring the sights and insights where the 1571 Battle of Lepanto in the bay of Nafpaktou marked the victory of the Spanish Empire and their European allies against the Ottoman Empire. The Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes even fought in the battle and lost the use of his left hand. Nafpaktos Port, once used to defend the city, is now home to gorgeous private yachts. Admire the yachts, an old lighthouse and two statues depicting the Greek national hero Anemogiannis and Cervantes. Continue your travels to Galaxidi, your home for the next two nights, where you'll unwind sampling local dishes at a seaside restaurant.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Ganimede, Galaxidi, Epavlis Boutique Galaxidi, Nostos, Galaxidi

No visit to Greece is complete without a trip to Delphi. Ascend the Sacred Way of Delphi, once lined with offertory temples, with your Local Expert. Pass the Parian marble Treasury of the Athenians and Polygonal Wall, with its interlocking stones still intact after thousands of years. Approach the Temple of Apollo where for 14 centuries the mysterious Oracle of Delphi breathed her ‘words,' rumoured to have predicted events related to the Argonauts expedition and the Trojan War.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Ganimede, Galaxidi, Nostos, Galaxidi, Epavlis Boutique Galaxidi

With the impressive Rio–Antirio bridge—one of the longest in Europe—guiding your journey, travel into the heart of the Peloponnese. In Nemea, enjoy a light lunch and sample the region’s renowned wines during a guided tasting. Continue to a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience at an organic beekeeping facility, where you’ll meet a local family dedicated to pollinator conservation and sustainable honey production. Arrive in Nafplion, the first capital of modern Greece, where your Travel Director introduces you to the elegant charm of the Old Town. Stroll past neoclassical facades draped in bougainvillea, through lively squares and narrow laneways, before catching sight of the hilltop Palamidi fortress, bathed in golden light as day turns to dusk.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Ippoliti, Nafplio, 3Sixty, Nafplio, Castellano, Nafplio

Classical Greek culture is revealed on your visit to the ruined city of Mycenae with a Local Expert. Gain insight into these ruins of the two of the greatest cities of the Mycenaean civilisation, which helped shape classical Greek culture and are closely linked to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Walk through the Lion Gate, visit the royal beehive tombs and see the giant Cyclopean stones used to build the city walls. Continue your exploration of the ancient world visiting the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, one of the best-preserved amphitheatres in Greece. Built in the 4th century BC, the Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus was once a sacred healing centre, attracting visitors seeking treatment from resident priests. Today, the theatre is best known for its excellent acoustics due to the steps’ “acoustic traps” and is still in use for live performances. Before returning to Nafplion, stop at a local olive oil grove to learn about the olive oil-making process and enjoy a tasting of extra virgin olive oil, a staple of the Mediterranean diet.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Ippoliti, Nafplio, 3Sixty, Nafplio, Castellano, Nafplio

Rich in history and natural beauty, Crete lives up to its name, “the island of the gods.” Travel to Athens crossing the mighty engineering feat, the Corinth Canal, for your flight to Crete, your home for the next four nights. In Heraklion, enjoy an orientation walking tour viewing sites such as the ‘Koules’ fortress, Venetian Loggia, Morosini Fountain, Basilica of St Mark, Churcof Agios Titus, the medieval Monastery of St Catherine and the Cathedral of Agios Minas. You’ve surely worked up an appetite and Cretan cuisine is traditionally considered some of the best in Greece. This evening, sample local dishes accompanied by the “fiery” local drink, raki.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Megaron, Heraklion

Visit Knossos with your Local Expert and explore Crete’s largest surviving Minoan palace complex, first established in the Bronze Age and rebuilt after earthquake damage. You’ll move through the Central Court and the Throne Room and see reconstructed frescoes including the ‘Prince of the Lilies’. Continue with your Local Expert to the Heraklion Archaeological Museum to view objects recovered from Knossos and other Cretan sites, including ceramics, jewellery, seals and sculpture from the Minoan period.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Megaron, Heraklion

Spend the morning in Rethymno, a Cretan port town shaped by Venetian rule and later Ottoman administration. Join a walking tour through the old town, moving along cobbled lanes where Venetian facades sit alongside Ottoman domes and minarets. You’ll pass courtyards and shaded alleys, then continue towards the waterfront to view the lighthouse and the 16th-century Venetian fortress above the harbour. Later, continue to Chania for the night, a former Venetian stronghold known for its preserved old town and working harbour that remains central to the city’s daily life.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Samaria, Chania

Explore Chania with your Local Expert, focusing on the old town’s layered neighbourhoods. Begin in Splantzia, the former Ottoman district, and walk through Splantzia Square to view the Church of Agios Nikolaos, a landmark shaped by changing religious use over time. Continue into the Jewish district to understand the city’s long multicultural history through its streets and surviving communal landmarks. The afternoon is at leisure. You might walk the Venetian harbour to the lighthouse, visit the Maritime Museum of Crete for the island’s seafaring story or browse the covered market halls for Cretan products such as thyme honey, herbs, olive oil and graviera cheese. This evening, join your Small Group for dinner in a traditional Cretan restaurant.

Duration: 1 Day

Accommodation: Samaria, Chania

Sadly, all good things must come to an end. After breakfast, you'll be transferred to the Chania airport for your onward flight.

Duration: 1 Day