¿Whats the best itinerary visiting greece and turkey spending 7days each?

Question

I start the trip in athens and i'll be heading next to turkey. I was planning on spending 7 days in greece and 7 in turkey, my trip ends in tessaloniki.

The thing is, i start in athens, and i'm planning to go up towards turkey, so i wanna know some middlespots between those seven days in the road. I'm going by myself and i'm going by bus or train, i got no car. I might schedule Delphi and Meteora in between athens and istambul, so what else can i see on the way?

Answer 1

First of all, there are no goats etc on public buses in Greece. Are you going to fly to Turkey? If yes, stick around Athens, with some excursions, like:
1. Egina (nearby island)
2. Delphi and Hosios Loukas (2 hour drive)
3. Nafplio and Epidaurus (2 hour drive)
4. Monemvasia and Mistras (3-4 hour drive, you must spend the night in Sparti probably)
5. Syros- Mykonos (4-5 hours by ferry boat, on the same ferry line, nice islands, won't be deserted in the winter either).
and then fly to Constantinople (Istanbul), and then drive back to Thessaloniki to end the trip.
If you go to Turkey by a vehicle, there is no point in ending the trip at Thessaloniki, you'll pass from Thessaloniki on the way. Also, you can pass from Meteora and Pelion.
By the way, in Greece you don't need to be daring or anything, just organised and informed, because you can be stuck somewhere with no bus until the next morning or something. But there is no danger.

Answer 2

That depends a lot on how DARING you are.. I, in Greece, went by BUS a lot.. along with the goats, chickens, etc and went over a lot of Greece to the North of Athens.. It was exciting. Keep in mind that on the bus, they charge you extra for every piece of luggage that you bring along. Going from Greece to Turkey, you could go by tourist bus.. that would be the best.. Remember also in Turkey that there are bandits/thieves who prey on tourists of which MOST goes unreported.

Answer 3

i believe the in effortless words "barrier" between the greeks and the turks is in effortless words the language and the religion.maximum greeks and turks are very non secular so international places of the same religions count to them.(eg: turkey "forgave" the arab states (and helps palestine plenty),for revolting adverse to them merely because they're muslims. both simmilar cultures they have may be more beneficial simillar and the chilly conflict they have been having for years may be very close relatives instead. playstation :right here in cyprus the same applies.the christian cypriots contained in the south whinge that the churches contained in the north are not any further being treated and blame the muslims cypriots for no longer respecting their faith.such issues as this are between the significant complications of the cyprus dispute and that i believe if all the cypriots had the same faith a cyprus dispute may have not in any respect taken position.