Secret escape by boat to a remote island (Rhenia)        €150 per person

Escape to a remote small island just 20min boat-trip away from Mykonos island. Our captain will bring you on the island on 15:00 and he will come back to pick you up on 18:30. Your trip will include a Delos historic town view by boat and a wonderful 20min trip to a virgin beach on the remote Rhenia island. Your only companions will be an umbrella, a picnic basket with water, snacks,fruits, chocolates & wine. The rest program of your time on the remote island is up to your imagination. Daily 14:30-19:00 except weekends and in case of very windy weather.    

Discover Mykonos by horseback riding        €100 per person

Adventure, 3 hours long, horseback ride to the north beaches of Mykonos island for nature and horseback riding lovers. It includes transfers to/from the start point. Daily 10:00-13:00 & 16:00-19:00.    

Boat excursion to Delos Island - History and culture        €50 per person

Cultural, 4 hours long, excursion to the ancient Delos island. It includes transfers to the port, roundtrip boat tickets, museum entrance tickets and multilingual speaking guide. Daily 09:30 - 13:30 except Mondays.    

Delos island

What makes Delos one of the most outstanding archeological sites in Greece is the fact that it is an entire ancient city, complete with its own port, temples, and sanctuaries, market places, theater, gymnasium, stadium, and many private residences, which remain in a well-preserved condition. The birthplace of Apollo, a very important place of worship, a cosmopolitan town, and a busy port, Delos was all of these rolled together. Discover Delos: As one leaves the modern, cosmopolitan Mykonos behind, heading for Delos for the first time, one cannot but wonder why the ancient Greeks chose this small rocky island (5 sq. km.) as the birthplace of God Appollo and as his most important sanctuary, rather that any one of the bigger, more fertile neighboring island. What is certain is that in ancient Greece nothing occurred truly by chance, thus the location , founding and functioning of shires, temples and oracles complied with specific criteria. Moreover it is a well-known fact that the sunlight over Delos is of even greater brightness and penetrating clarity that that of any other sun-drenched islands of the Cyclades. Is it really any wonder then, that Delos was the most suitable choice as the birthplace of Apollo, the god of light and the sun god?

History

Human habitation on the island of Delos dates back to at least the 3rd millennium BC. Its first inhabitants must have been Carians. This at least is argued by Thucydides who associated with them the iron weapons found in graved during the Cleasing of 426-425 BC. Myths about Anios, father of the Delians, and about Rhadanabthus of Crete, indicate that the Cretans must have had relations with the little island of Delos because of its special geographic location in the Agean. The Carian was succeeded by the Mycenaeans, and then by the Ionians, who came from the coast of Asia Minor, and whoa s early as c. 700 BC organized splendid festivals there. Visitors from all parts of Ionia would come and worship Apollo with dances, hymns and contests. Excavations on Delos started in 1873 by the French School of Archaeology at Athens. Between 1904 and 1914, under the direction of M. Holleaux and thanks to the donation of Duke de Loubat, the most significant sections of the ancient site were uncovered.

Delos Archaeological Museum