Being my first train trip in Greece I was a bit expectant. Well... It started fantastic! The train line is not working at 100% so we had to take a bus that was waiting outside of the station. Half an hour or more through swamp-like plantations and zig-zag roads... Great! We then entered the train in a station somewhere. An old and slow train but okay for a trip like this.
Arriving at Pyrgos we waited a bit and took the next train to Olympia. A small one, looked like the urban trains in the portuguese North Line.
In a short trip we arrived at Olympia, last station of the line. Maybe because it was sunday, but the first thing we saw were big piles of garbage nears the bins... Poli orea! We then saw the map and we moved to the area of interest.The town looks like it only lives for the tourists, so it seems there is nothing more to see than the and the archaeo site.
Archaelogical Museum
Modern building, nice construction with some statues outside, video vigilance everywhere, "security" people everywhere (and one of them a bit annoying), better room lighting than in the Athenian Museum (which is great for taking pictures without flash)...
The expositions count with lots of statues, many of them from roman emperors and famous people and athletes, very nice glass objects, metal objects, tons of pots, war helmets and armor, shields, bronze griffins and very small statuettes, and a huge room with a sequence of statues or both sides.
In fact I discovered here in this last room, that mobile phone technology was already used in ancient Greece, as you can see in the next picture.
Anyway, we moved to the archaeological site after talking a bit! Archaeological Site
5 minutes of walking from the museum and we where there. We showed the tickets at the entrance and then we started a tiring trip!... In the beginning the place did not look so big. We passed by Gimnasium, then the Philippeion, then the Olympic Stadium, then the Echo Portic, then Nero's octagonal house, then the place where the Cryselephantine Statue Of Zeus was, one of the Old World Wonders, then the baths, then 2 more buildings and finnaly we were done!
It was a very hot day, we were tired, so we decided to go back to take the bus back to Pyrgos. Otherwise we had to wait 2 hours for the next bus back.
(The server is not uploading images. Later if I have the pacience I will upload some more...)Distance from Kalamata: ~110km
Transportation used: train, bus
Travel time: ~3hours x2 (10:30-19:15)
Total transp. price: 9,40 euros
Museum + site prices: free to EU students, 9eur normal ticket, 5eur non-EU students and <19
Photo count: 428
Photo artifacts found: 0
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