Olympia

Day 2 on the Coach Tour: Olympia

This is the site of the original Olympics that were held in ancient times (~ 500 BC to 200 AD). The site is in really good shape because there was an earthquake in the area shortly after the site was abandoned, and the ruins were buried and so were protected by the soil. Even though very little is still standing, some of the detail is amazing.

There is an opporunity to run the length of the original running track, but, since it is 190m one way, neither of us felt is necessary to commune that closely with the ancients. It is enough that we walked the same pathways, we didn't need to run it. (Plus a girl on our bus who did run it spent the next hour sounding like she was coughing up hairballs!) Here's a picture of us modeling the latest in fashion from a downtown Athens deptartment store.