14 nights, Piraeus (Athens) to Piraeus (Athens)

The itinerary, port by port

12 calls over 14 nights, round-trip from Piraeus (Athens). Open any port for my full day-ashore guide, what to see, when to go, and how the day actually runs.

Getting there: Flights to Piraeus (Athens) (ATH) are already bookable for these dates. I watch the fare for booked clients so you book at the right moment. When to book your flights →

1. Embark
   Piraeus (Athens)

   Piraeus is the port of Athens, and the day belongs to the ancient city about 10 km inland. Port guide →

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   Nafplio

   Nafplio is a Venetian-and-Ottoman seaport on the Argolic Gulf in the Peloponnese, and Greece's first capital after independence. Port guide →

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   Paros

   Paros sits in the heart of the Cyclades, and ships call at Parikia, its main town. Port guide →

4. 4
   Skiathos

   Skiathos is a small, green Sporades island whose whole appeal is concentrated in one compact harbor town and a coastline of pine-backed coves. Port guide →

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   Volos

   Volos is a working Thessalian port city at the foot of Mount Pelion, the mythological home of the centaurs and the launch point of Jason and the Argonauts. Port guide →

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   Kusadasi (Ephesus)

   Kusadasi is a Turkish Aegean resort town whose real draw lies 19 km inland: Ephesus, one of the best-preserved classical cities in the Mediterranean and once the second city of the Roman Empire. Port guide →

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   Istanbul

   Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus across two continents, a city layered from Byzantine Constantinople through the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish metropolis. Port guide →

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   Marmaris

   Marmaris is a Turkish resort town on a deep, pine-rimmed bay where the Aegean meets the Mediterranean, with a small old quarter and castle tucked behind a long marina and seafront. Port guide →

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   Bodrum

   Bodrum is a whitewashed resort town on Turkey's southern Aegean coast, built over the ancient Greek city of Halicarnassus on a double bay split by a castle headland. Port guide →

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    Patmos

    Patmos is the small Dodecanese island where, by tradition, Saint John received the visions of the Book of Revelation, and that history sits compactly above the harbor town of Skala. Port guide →

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    Milos

    Milos is a volcanic Cycladic island whose colored rock and more than 70 beaches come from its mining past, and where the Venus de Milo was unearthed in 1820. Port guide →

12. Disembark
    Mykonos

    Mykonos is a Cycladic island whose main town, Chora, is a whitewashed labyrinth of cube houses, blue domes, and bougainvillea pressed against the Aegean. Port guide →