Tours in Greece

Start in the evening, on the harbour front in Chania. The light goes orange on the water, the tavernas pull their tables closer to the edge, and someone is always walking a dog past the old lighthouse. Behind the front, the lanes of Topanas and Splantzia twist off in every direction. Walk them slowly. Doors are painted, shutters hang open, and Venetian stone sits beside Ottoman wood without any fuss. This is the part of Greece where we have a tour, and it rewards a few unhurried hours.

Up from the coast, Aptera is a different mood. You drive up, the sea opens out below, and you step into a hillside of cisterns, walls and quiet. It is the kind of ruin where you can hear the wind and your own footsteps. Come back down and the old town feels layered in a way it did not before, because now you know what is under it.

Crete is the island many people picture first, but Greece is a country to be read in regions. Athens sits under the Acropolis and the Parthenon, and the Plaka below it is best on foot, early. Delphi hangs on its mountainside. Meteora's monasteries perch on rock pillars above the plain of Thessaly. Santorini and Mykonos draw the crowds in the Cyclades, while Rhodes keeps a walled medieval town you can wander for hours. The Peloponnese has Mycenae, Nafplio and Olympia, and the Mani is stark and rewarding if you have a car.

We do not list tours for most of these yet. If you want a local guide for the Acropolis, the islands or anywhere else, ask. Independent guides across Greece can take a request, and the best days here are usually the ones shaped around what you actually want to see.