INSTAP RONDLEIDINGEN
Instap rondleidingen
Ga met ons mee langs de hoogtepunten van Athene!
Een rondleiding van Little Owl brengt je naar het hart van de Griekse hoofdstad. Sluit aan bij een Akropolis rondleiding voor maximaal 20 personen en ga met ons op reis door het mythische en historische verleden van de Akropolis in Athene.
Athene is de hoofdstad van Griekenland met een lange geschiedenis doordrenkt met uitbundige godenverhalen. Volksoverleveringen gaan al eeuwenlang van mond tot mond, en die traditie willen wij graag voortzetten. We zijn dan ook een fanatiek voorstander van storytelling tijdens een rondleiding. Hierin wordt een combinatie van historische feiten, architectuur, en mythologie met elkaar verweven zodat een Nederlandstalige rondleiding informatief maar ook ontspannen is. Kom met ons mee en ontdek in kleine groepjes welke verhalen er achter de hoogtepunten en de Akropolis schuilgaan!
EXCELLENTVerified Loved it! Thank you Jessica, thank you Little Owl Tours! We had such a wonderful time on our private tour for my sister‘s birthday in November. Jessica is so knowledgeable and an all around nice person and showed us all the sights in and around the old town, the Acropolis and its neighborhoods. We really enjoyed our 3 hour walk. Kostas was a pleasure to communicate with during the planning and scheduling of our tour and even made sure we had a bunch of great restaurant recommendations.Efcharisto! Hope to be back again some day soon.Verified Kind, patient guide, great for kids Jessica was our guide for a lovely tour through the Acropolis with our two kids (8 and 10). She was kind, patient, and had a calm, laid back energy. She had a literal bag of goodies and props she used to keep the kids engaged, and even snapped a polaroid of our family as a cherished souvenir. She set a great pace on a hot day, and knew just how to navigate the crowds. Our oldest is very interested in Greek mythology, and he would have enjoyed a little more depth of information. Our youngest is not, and we appreciated how Jessica managed to keep her interest.Verified Little Owl Tours— Amazing! We had an amazing time touring various sites around Athens with Jessica from Little Owl Tours! She was very knowledgeable about Greek and Roman history and was a fantastic storyteller. Our family truly enjoyed our time together over several days. Kostas was great helping us organize our itinerary, and our driver Nikos was great as well. Highly recommend them, do not hesitate!Verified Excellent and very entertaining private tour with Maria (PhD in Archiology) -made a difference We booked a private guide -what we always go to get the most out of a sightseeing tour -and it was fantastic. Our guide, Maria, born and raised in Athens told us not only historic facts on history, architecture, making-of-the-temples, etc…. but also interesting stories around the many goddesses and their relations to each other. We learned about links current political and European issues and it was extremely interesting. The 4 hours passed by too fast…….highly recommendable!Verified Great kids tour Akropolis with Jessica We booked a kids tour with Jessica to the Akropolis and we we couldn’t have been happier. It turned out great for everyone in our family (aged 3 - 80) and we loved all the stories Jessica could tell about the Akropolis and the Greek mythology. Kids loved the puzzle.Verified Acropolis and Highlights of Athens We just finished our Highlights of Athens and Acropolis tour with Alexander. It was incredible! He gave us an insight into the city and it’s history that we could not have gotten anywhere else. Alexander is knowledgable, very friendly and super considerate, answering all our questions in detail. Anyone visiting Athens would be extremely lucky to have Alexander as a tourguide!Verified Wonderful guided tours with Jessica !! Jessica and Kostas of the “Little Owl Tour “ travel agency, GreeceHave you ever dreamed to bring your family with post adolescent children (25-23-22 and 19 yrs old, among which three girls beautiful as their mother) one week to Greece during the winter holydays ? Have you ever dreamed to let them experience the real Greek culture, getting in touch with local people, learning them a lot of habits, heritage, monuments, history, language, delicious Greek cuisine of street food ? Have you ever dreamed to enjoy beautiful Greeks landscapes as well as the sunrise from te Licabettus Hill in Athens of the sunsets of the marvellous Cap Sounion ? And what if in your dreams you also imagined that a very nice, universally knowledgeable and extremely caring Dutch (but also German or English or Greek) speaking guide accompanies you and your family during the whole period, telling you a plenty of mythological stories, explaining you a lot of interesting things about the old Greeks habits and patiently answering all the question you and your children are posing her ? And what if in your dreams you also imagined that you do not have to stress to organized the day or to buy any ticket or even to que up because this fantastic guide brings you safely everywhere and keeps the time table sharp but in a very agreeable manner ? And what if in your dreams you imagine that all what above just mentioned financially affordable is for you, who have collect enough saving to reward your family with an unforgettable holyday in Greece ?If you suddenly wake up and you really want to realize all these dreams, there is only one organization in Greece who will do its very best in helping you ! Its name is “Little Owl Tour “ a small travel agency run by Jessica and Kostas, with its main office in Piraeus.Jessica is a very bright, highly educated ( Master in Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam !) professional guide as well as a very respectful person, who can communicate with you in at least four languages which she perfectly speaks.Moreover she knows everything about ancient Greece, from history to habits and she is able to tells in details fascinating stories such as the raise of the democracy in the agora of Athens of the rol of the oracle in Delphos. And as a romance, she will show later in musea more objects which prove her story more credible. Her specialty is definitely the ancient Greek culture, and her passion on this is very contagious. How did I find Jessica and her “Little Owl Tour “ travel agency ? I’ve got the name and number of Jessica from the official website of the Greek Ministry of Tourism, as Jessica is a fully recognised tourist guide, a title which is really not easy to achieve in Greece, especially for a foreign citizen. As I said before, Jessica was born in the Southern of the Netherlands, and completed successfully her academic master in Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. Of course I did not know who Jessica was, but her Curriculum Vitae and the website of the “Little Owl Tour “ convinced me at glance to contact her for my purpose. Since the very first e-mail. I received quick and adequate feed-back from her man Kostas, who was very keen in keeping in touch with me through all the very important e-mails of the first orienting phase. His seriousness and accuracy in answering all my question and helping me in organizing the program of the week were very good. Also, my doubts vanished when I received the mobile telephone number and whatsapp of Jessica, with whom I could arrange our visit in great details. As you may read in other recensions, lot of positive and loving things have already be said about Jessica and about the “Little Owl ” travel agency .However, some peculiar aspects of Jessica have still to be highlighted. Therefore I asked my 4 adolescent children to suggest some quality of her: • Enthousiastic• Punctual and accurate, very professional• Huge knowledge about ancient (but also modern) Greek history • Contagious passion• Lot of pieces of advice how to have a pleasant stay in Athens, from the best roof top bars to restaurant tips or bakery’s, etc. etc) • Gifted narrator and story teller of mythological stories right in the place where they happened, such as the Pantheon, the Agora or the Archaeological museum in Athens of the theatre and Archaeological museum in Delphos• Digital guide => she uses her I-pad to complete with illustrations her story• Photograph using a Polaroid camera => she takes a foto of your group in the most salient moment of the tour • Knows her limit => when I asked Jessica to be guided through the Byzantinic Athens, she admitted het lack of knowledge and she arranged for us another very expert guide with whom she collaborates• Jessica was very patient with all the “requirements” imposed by my post adolescent children • Teacher : through asking questions to the group during the visit, she keeps alive the interest as a very good teacher, making the visit an interactive experienceMoreover, Jessica, Kostas and their her “Little Owl Tour “ travel agency are surrounded by good and trustable people, as for instance Dimitri, a very agreeable and safe taxi driver. The last day, when we must left each other, it was very sad moment for me and for us because we are very found of Jessica. Whenever I’ll be back in Greece, I will surely first contact the “Little Owl Tour “ travel agency of Jessica and Kostas. I hope you will do the same after having read this report.Best regardsGiorgio Porro, MD, PhDVerified The best way to learn essential highlights about the Acropolis and key context We had the luxury of having our guide Jessica all to ourselves, which was so worth it. She welcomed us at the bottom of the Acropolis hill and with several short stops to share information we climbed to the top. Her enthusiasm for archeology and history was evident and contagious. We would have missed many interesting details if we had done this visit on our own. The same goes for visiting the museum. Jessica took us around focusing on interesting highlights. What I found particularly interesting about her style, was that she kept asking us questions and made us think, before giving away answers/information. It really helped us stay alert, which is a challenge in an environment dense with things to notice.Thank you Jessica for making this a highlight during our trip to Athens!Verified Excellent tour, especially for kids! We had a tour of the Acropolis in English from Jessica who was AMAZING. So kind, patient and did a great job of engaging our kids in the story of the Greek Gods, even the teenagers!!!! This would have been a hot and terrible disaster without Jessica taking time along the way to stop and pause and give the kids puzzle pieces for each new God we learned about. Even though it was HOT out, the kids barely complained and really enjoyed it. They watched and are reading everything they can about the Greek Gods now. Wonderful tour and highly recommend this!Verified Great tour! Great tour! I am not a Dutch native speaker, but my familiy is. Travelling with kids aged 6 and 10, the Dutch speaking tour was perfect! They were able to follow everything and were very enthusiastic. Jessica was great, she could involve the kids in the story and keep them interested till the end (note that kids have a free entrance in the Acropolis).As a history lover myself, I would definitely recommend the tour - it was a good and measured amount of information combined with well chosen pictures (from ipad) to give us a better impression of the surroundings.Thank you very much! I would definitely recommend.
