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Greece- Archaeology and the Aegean - For the Love of Wanderlust
I spent a lot of my time in Greece on the Peloponnese (which is the bottom peninsula south of Athens). I already wrote about a couple of stops there, but I wanted to blog about a lot of the other stops I made into one condensed article. I arrived in Patras close to sunset, and left early the next morning. It was pretty much my stop between Delphi and Olympia, so I didn’t really do much there. However there is the Rio-Antirion Bridge, which is absolutely beautiful and I stopped at the beginning of the bridge (heading south) and there’s an observation area where you can walk over the road and look straight on at the bridge from an elevated position. It wasn’t many stairs and is pretty cool for a quick 5 minute stop. I went to the Ancient Olympia Archaeological Site the next morning and it was spectacular. I went to the museum first. It was a really interesting and it had a ton of artifacts from the site along with great descriptions and history behind not only the artifact, but the symbolism behind designs. My favorite piece of art in the museum was a statue head called […]
Paige Wunder