3/12/2023 0 Comments Full Tourist ModeThis is the most geeky tourist I have felt while traveling, but I don’t care. I got up early this morning for my guided tour of the Acropolis, and was handed an iPod with one headphone so that during the tour we could hear the guide even when she was walking ahead of us. This was so cool and I totally get why people do this now! Our group was pretty small with only like 12 people, mostly from America. The group was made up of solo travelers or pairs. Our tour guide’s name was Artemis, and gave an AMAZING tour! She is a wonderful storyteller and got you really into the moment and could picture what people did and looked like back when it was all built and used. I’m so happy that I took pictures the day before, because while the others were focused on photo taking, I could really appreciate the history of what Artemis told us about.
in the theater towards the bottom, the seats have names marked in them for those fancy people that had permanent seats. Each of the chairs have different indent levels from the amount of turnaround from when the chair went to the next person, as they would just resmooth the stone and carve the new name. The ceiling to the Parthenon has been gone for a long time, as groups centuries ago bombed the structure, and with the armies keeping explosive powders in the Parthenon, it all went boom. It was interesting how across from the Acropolis you can see a large tomb marker for a Syrian prince that helped to finance and build a lot of the city. At the end of the tour, half the group split off to continue for a tour of the museum. The rest of us continued on to enjoy the day. Two of the women on tour were nice enough to take some photos of me and I took it of them. That’s the only hard part sometimes about solo travel, is getting photos of you at the places haha. But timed selfies work sometimes too. Overall, the tour was so amazing and I loved getting to dive deep into the history of the Acropolis.
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