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What Makes Us Unique

Our goal is to help you create the most exciting and educational custom tour possible, and to be hospitalbe and helpful during your stay. Here are some things that make us stand out from alternative tour companies: We are highly specialized, geared toward the countries we offer tours in and commited to almost daily contact with groups while they are active in our countries. We also offer guide permits for teachers leading groups, and offer professional guides familiar with specific regions to assist professors in providing the most accurate and thorough experince possible for their students. All of the hotels on your tour have been personally selected by our staff, and all of our guides and drivers have been as well. This is not mass tourism, this is a specialized, highly personalized opportunity for you and your students to have a unique cultural experience.

LECTURES by noteable Scholars and Classicists from the American School of Classical Studies on their excavation sites in Athens, Crete and Corinth.
Meetings with local students or residents for joint cultural events, outings, or entertainment with local music
HIGHLY QUALIFIED GUIDES/LECTURERESand a team of staff dedicated to the highest quality of service in educational travel
STUDY EDUCATIONAL VISITS to out-of the beaten track locations such as the American Farm School, a truly unique institution in Thessaloniki, The Vorres Museum, a private collection with thousands of paintings in an authentic, traditional Greek home, and the Paros School of Art and Painting in Cyclades
SPECIAL VISITS to wineries including wine tasting, traditional ceramics and alabaster workshops, "flokati" (sheep rugs) and carpet workshops, olive presses, and orange groves.
GUIDE LECTURE PERMITS are arranged for qualified professors to lecture their students on sites (instead of local guides), a saving of $ 2.000 and 50% Reduction on Admission Fees for qualified groups of students, in all subjects, a saving of $95 p.p.
SPECIAL CULTURAL EVENTS such as folk-dancing by local dancers, concerts, ancient drama and opera in Greece and Turkey.
STAYS IN TRADITIONAL GUEST HOUSES all with modern facilities, in the Mt. Pelion villages, Epirus mountain villages and in Istanbul, Turkey as well as selected 3 & 4 star hotels.
DELICIOUS DINING EXPERIENCE with local specialties and excellent wine prepared by local chefs in small villages or island tavernas while in Greece (including village recipes for popular Greek dishes)
AND 35 YEARS of experience organising educational group travel in Greece & the Mediterranean region.

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