Greece (Final part!..... finally :P)
Day 6 (15th of April)
After breakfast, we dashed off to begin our sight seeing again. The place we're about to visit today is a truly amazing one. We're going to visit 2 monasteries on top of the gigantic rocks, Meteora.
See if you can spot 3 monasteries in the picture above! :P And in the picture below, beside my sister, there's this big hole in the rock. That's the prison for monks who lived in the monasteries. Monks who wanted to think over his wrongdoings or maybe receive the word of God will climb and stay in that hole for a long time. The hole is actually quite high and the way there is very steep. So if they slip and fall, that's be the end for them la.
Its really quite amazing how they could build these on top of these rocks.
The 1st monastery, Varlaam.
Before the stairs and walkway were built, they use to lift things up from the bottom using a lift from the balcony. They lift up food, building materials and even human!
Girls are not allowed to wear pants into the monasteries. They failed to inform us earlier to bring skirts, so we had to wear some wrap-around skirts provided by them.
Inside the monastery, the walls were painted with beautiful pictures all over - Jesus' picture, the judgement day and some other famous ones too. But we weren't allowed any photo shots. Too bad!
Our next stop, Holy Monastery of Saint Stephen.
More paintings inside. No photos allowed again. Well, we got at least a bit.
That's all for Meteora Monastery. We headed down, and journeyed our way back to Athens. A statue of Leonidas on the way to remember his bravery during war times.
That night we went up some hill (argh! I forgot its name!) overlooking Athens. It was beautiful. And we could see Acropolis far away.
Day 7 (16th of April)
Its cruising day! We visited 3 islands today boarding on Anna Maru.
A nice comfy cruise ship. Well, quite crowded too.
Our 1st stop island is Paros. We were only given 30 minutes on this island. Pretty short for some curious tourist I would say, but the purpose was to let us go up to its clock tower for the views.
Pretty nice heh.
After that, we had lunch on board and they had some stage performance. There were greek dance and greek music... pretty entertaining. The greek singer even sang 2 mandarin songs! That, certainly impressed all chinese on board.
Our next stop was Mikonos. A very beautiful town, with lots of cute cats! Yeah, cats. I don't know why, but there are just so many cats around, and they are really cute, fluffy and cuddly! Some sitting around, some playing and chasing each other around the harbour, some sleeping on couches and even flower pots! Oo... I love this place :D
Other than cats, donkeys are also a common animal around here. Not stray donkeys of course :P They use donkeys as transportation.
The islands are famous for the beauty of the buildings. There's a beauty in the way they paint them, in the narrow lanes. Indescribable.
They were selling these pictures everywhere. I really wanted to get one for myself. But they're just expensive! Forget it, I'll just snap a photo of it! :P
The 3rd island is more commercialized, more shops, more people. We were to spend one and a half hours here. The cruise also offers sight seeing packages on the island. However, we decided on it too late, and the tour was already fulling booked. So we just went around on our own. The island was famous for their pistachio nuts, and of course, we went to scout around for the cheapest pistachio nuts around town.... Typical Malaysian chinese huh.
We got off the cruise and headed straight for dinner... Chinese food, requested by most of our group members, coz too sick of Greek food! haha :P Well, can't blame us, we had that for the past 5 days.
We went back to stay at Hotel Ariston and mom fell sick :( She caught Greece flu! Poor thing.
Day 8 (17th of April)
Today we will head home! :( Head back to work... :(( The trip seemed so short now. Too short!
But before that, we visited around Athens, the tour we missed on day 1. The Olympic stadium in Athens!
On the bus ride, we saw...
A non-moving guard that stands outside the House of Parliament. Too bad we didn't get to snap photos with them or disturb them :P
Nice buildings...
Our next stop would be the long awaited Acropolis! In Greek, 'acro' means top and 'polis' means city. So Acropolis basically meant 'on top of the city'. Unfortunately, when we arrived, they were in the process of restoring the buildings. So there are quite a lot of construction frames around. Not exactly a very pretty sight la.
I'm touching the Temple of Athina!
A theatre beside the temple.
And we could see the remains of Temple of Zeus not far away.
Erechtheion, a building beside Temple of Athina, which was built for Goddess worshipping.
Well, a picture of how Acropolis looks like now from above. Very nice. Very expensive. *click* I have the picture now! hehe
This is how Acropolis is suppose to be.
We headed down to town to do some last minute shopping, and had our lunch at a Greece famous fast food chain, Goodys. Its not bad at all. They should open a chain here :P
And that's the end of our trip! :( I'll miss Greece....
Hmm.. where shall I go next? kekeke...
See if you can spot 3 monasteries in the picture above! :P And in the picture below, beside my sister, there's this big hole in the rock. That's the prison for monks who lived in the monasteries. Monks who wanted to think over his wrongdoings or maybe receive the word of God will climb and stay in that hole for a long time. The hole is actually quite high and the way there is very steep. So if they slip and fall, that's be the end for them la.
Its really quite amazing how they could build these on top of these rocks.
The 1st monastery, Varlaam.
Before the stairs and walkway were built, they use to lift things up from the bottom using a lift from the balcony. They lift up food, building materials and even human!
Girls are not allowed to wear pants into the monasteries. They failed to inform us earlier to bring skirts, so we had to wear some wrap-around skirts provided by them.
Inside the monastery, the walls were painted with beautiful pictures all over - Jesus' picture, the judgement day and some other famous ones too. But we weren't allowed any photo shots. Too bad!
Our next stop, Holy Monastery of Saint Stephen.
More paintings inside. No photos allowed again. Well, we got at least a bit.
That's all for Meteora Monastery. We headed down, and journeyed our way back to Athens. A statue of Leonidas on the way to remember his bravery during war times.
That night we went up some hill (argh! I forgot its name!) overlooking Athens. It was beautiful. And we could see Acropolis far away.
Day 7 (16th of April)
Its cruising day! We visited 3 islands today boarding on Anna Maru.
A nice comfy cruise ship. Well, quite crowded too.
Our 1st stop island is Paros. We were only given 30 minutes on this island. Pretty short for some curious tourist I would say, but the purpose was to let us go up to its clock tower for the views.
Pretty nice heh.
After that, we had lunch on board and they had some stage performance. There were greek dance and greek music... pretty entertaining. The greek singer even sang 2 mandarin songs! That, certainly impressed all chinese on board.
Our next stop was Mikonos. A very beautiful town, with lots of cute cats! Yeah, cats. I don't know why, but there are just so many cats around, and they are really cute, fluffy and cuddly! Some sitting around, some playing and chasing each other around the harbour, some sleeping on couches and even flower pots! Oo... I love this place :D
Other than cats, donkeys are also a common animal around here. Not stray donkeys of course :P They use donkeys as transportation.
The islands are famous for the beauty of the buildings. There's a beauty in the way they paint them, in the narrow lanes. Indescribable.
They were selling these pictures everywhere. I really wanted to get one for myself. But they're just expensive! Forget it, I'll just snap a photo of it! :P
The 3rd island is more commercialized, more shops, more people. We were to spend one and a half hours here. The cruise also offers sight seeing packages on the island. However, we decided on it too late, and the tour was already fulling booked. So we just went around on our own. The island was famous for their pistachio nuts, and of course, we went to scout around for the cheapest pistachio nuts around town.... Typical Malaysian chinese huh.
We got off the cruise and headed straight for dinner... Chinese food, requested by most of our group members, coz too sick of Greek food! haha :P Well, can't blame us, we had that for the past 5 days.
We went back to stay at Hotel Ariston and mom fell sick :( She caught Greece flu! Poor thing.
Day 8 (17th of April)
Today we will head home! :( Head back to work... :(( The trip seemed so short now. Too short!
But before that, we visited around Athens, the tour we missed on day 1. The Olympic stadium in Athens!
On the bus ride, we saw...
A non-moving guard that stands outside the House of Parliament. Too bad we didn't get to snap photos with them or disturb them :P
Nice buildings...
Our next stop would be the long awaited Acropolis! In Greek, 'acro' means top and 'polis' means city. So Acropolis basically meant 'on top of the city'. Unfortunately, when we arrived, they were in the process of restoring the buildings. So there are quite a lot of construction frames around. Not exactly a very pretty sight la.
I'm touching the Temple of Athina!
A theatre beside the temple.
And we could see the remains of Temple of Zeus not far away.
Erechtheion, a building beside Temple of Athina, which was built for Goddess worshipping.
Well, a picture of how Acropolis looks like now from above. Very nice. Very expensive. *click* I have the picture now! hehe
This is how Acropolis is suppose to be.
We headed down to town to do some last minute shopping, and had our lunch at a Greece famous fast food chain, Goodys. Its not bad at all. They should open a chain here :P
And that's the end of our trip! :( I'll miss Greece....
Hmm.. where shall I go next? kekeke...
posted by Amanda at 3:17 AM
2 Comments:
Try Tuscany, Italy. Very beautiful. Breathtaking countryside sceneries and the food looks nice too from the photos. ;)
Gotta save enough for a budget trip. Saw it from a financial mag (my cousin's). Gave tips on how to travel on a tight budget. Shiok! My cousin asks me interested? Sure interested laaa. Wonder if she wanna sponsor me? Wahahahaha... :D
hahah... definitely! I'm saving up for my next trip now. But you? Tuscany, Italy? And you said you don't have the budget to go Redang? Suin laaa!
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