Discover Meteora in a Private Day Tour
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From $239.38
17 reviews (4.76)
Price varies by group size
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Departs: Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki
Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Free cancellation
Overview
This tour is an all day Meteora experience. Joining this tour you will discover the most important spots in Meteora by visiting three of the oldest monasteries of the region, take amazing photos of their stunning views, walk through narrow old paths and enjoy your lunch at Kastraki posing a nice back-round of the high cliffs.
What's Included
Air-conditioned vehicle
Bottled water
Tour escort English speaking
What's Not Included
Alcoholic Beverages
Entrance Fees to the monasteries (3 euros per person)
Gratuities
Lunch
Official licensed Guide
Traveler Information
- ADULT: Age: 1 - 100
Additional Info
- Face masks required for travellers in public areas
- Guides required to regularly wash hands
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Face masks required for guides in public areas
- Gear/equipment sanitised between use
- Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
- Regular temperature checks for staff
- Service animals allowed
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
What To Expect
Great Meteoron Monastery
The monastery offers amazing views to the surrounding landscape. During your visit you have the chance to visit the museum of the monastery, where historical codices and religious icons of high value are on display.
Moreover, take time to gaze at the artistic details of some of the best samples of post-Byzantine art of Greece, found inside the main church of the monastery.
60 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Varlaam Monastery
The chapel was finally decorated in 1548. The beautiful frescos in the monastery’s chapel of All Saints belong to the famous hagiographer of the 16th century Franco Catalano. The monastery has preserved the tower with the old pully system where you can see the net, used by the first monks to bring up people and provisions.
The visitors can also see a very large 16th-century oak barrel used for water storage over the previous centuries. The monastery of Varlaam has opened recently a brand new museum, where visitors can admire the excellence of religious painted icons – mostly contemporary to the Renaissance period – and precious holy vestments of the priests from the Byzantine period.
60 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Agios Stefanos
Visit Roussanou for a different view of the surrounding cliffs and the adjacent Meteora Monasteries. Follow the pathway from this monastery to the upper main road and discover an off-the-road panoramic view point spot that allows you to walk on bear rocks!
Don’t miss out on this photo opportunity!
60 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Kastraki
60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Reviews
Driver and guide made this the highlight of our trip to Greece.
