Highlights:
Explore one of the most culturally enlightened cities in Greece. This is same day return ferry.
Program:
Its available to go Mytilini from Ayvalik everyday by Ferry boat. We meet you in TURYOL Office in Ayvalik at 8am for pasaport controls.Board on boat after pasaport controls and depart for Mytilini at 9am. After 1.30min traveling by Ferry we dock Mytilini port. You will have free time to explore Mytilini, is built upon seven hills and is full of history. Mytilini is in fact one of the most culturally enlightened cities in Greece perhaps due to its proximity to the coast of Asia Minor where the ancient Greeks flourished until 1922 when they were forcefully evicted by the Turks. Many of these Greeks had property in Mytilini and many Mytilinians had businesses in Asia Minor. For this reason the museums are full of interesting remnants of the last three thousand years of history and the town itself contains monuments, houses, churches, schools and other buildings from the various historical periods. But it is the Mytilini of today that holds the most interest for many because it is a small and manageable city full of great restaurants, cafes, nightlife, lots of interesting shops and friendly, people.
Also you get chance to visit enormous castle whose foundations were laid during the time of Justinian on the ruins of an even more ancient fortification, The marketplace is one of the most active in Greece with shops of every variety and closed to automobile traffic while the stores are open, Ermou Street, the main shopping street of Mytilene, in the area of the old market (palia agora), there used to be several antique shops (paliatzidhika), of which only two now survive, story stone apartment, ancient theater and old Greek Orthodox church.
Before you leave from this beautiful island you should taste fish, calamary and greek apperatives in tradational fish restaurant on seaside. After memoirable day we meet in Mytilini port around 5:15pm and after pasaport controls depart for Ayvalik at 6pm