Athens Acropolis Jan 8

Viking Athens - Rone Cruise 

Acropolis Tour - Athens

January 28, 2026

This morning was an early one as suitcases had to be out side for pick up by 6:00 am.  Then down for breakfast and on the bus.  While the hotel was only a 25 minute walk to Acropolis it was on heck of a climb up to the Acropolis, which is located on a huge mountain top.   

After a short drive we started up the last climb up to the Acropolis.  The Acropolis was a a temple to Athena.  The Acropolis is absolutely huge and totally dominates the sky line of Athens.  The entrance to the temple grounds is dominated by this huge gate.  From the gate the there is a panoramic view of Athens.  We are so glad to be here in January as there was hardly anyone at the site, The at gate there are 6 sets of turnstiles so they must get a lot of visitors.  The temple is absolutely huge.   To give you an idea of how large the pillars are Agnes is standing beside one of the column drums which are 5 feet in diameter.  The temple was constructed around 550 BC and was used until around 500 AD.  

After our visit to the Acropolis we walked down to the Acropolis museum.  It is a very new an beautiful building.  It has hundreds of pieces of pottery and hundreds of statues.  The inside is modelled to represent the Acropolis.  With the different pieces laid out as they would have been.  The ends of the museum have the different statues from the pediments.  Outside Athena's owl, which is the symbol of wisdom stands guard.

Back on the bus and off the the ship.   Glad to be here and settled in.  Stay tuned for ship pictures.  As we were leaving lunch we were asked if we would like an additional reservation at the specialty dining steak house (no charge).  Wow.

Today's temperature is 17 C.

What a great day.

Terr