Athens

Hanging out with five of the Caryatids before visiting five of them in the Acropolis Museum later. Let's hope the sixth will be returned from the British Museum someday to join her sisters!
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Avoid the crowds at the Acropolis: Pristine Parthenon Tour in Athens

ByMalia Yoshioka

My first visit to Athens was in 2008 on our way to a cruise of the Greek islands – which also included my first ever stop in Turkey. That trip, we visited the Acropolis ruins in the middle of a sweltering summer day and I was too hot and weary of the crowds to truly…