Day 31
Saturday, July 22,
2006
Mykonos, Greece
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| View of Mykonos Town harbor |
Our ship docks at the Mykonos
port and we see that it is a very windy day.
We take a tour called the
Mykonos Island Tour.
Our tour guide is Niko and he is from Athens but lives and works in Mykonos
during the tourist season.
He gives us a
lot of history of the island
of Mykonos, which was
always a very poor island until the 1950’s.
What brought attention to the island was Aristotle Onassis
who started coming to Mykonos and decided that
he liked the original Greek architecture that is strictly preserved by the
Government. Celebrities starting coming
to the island along with partygoers, including hippies and gays. Mykonos is now considered the place to be
seen in Greece,
but that has caused the prices of everything to have increased.
On our tour, we stop to see the Panagia Tourliani
Monastery. There are still a few monks
who live there. There is a beautifully
carved marble fountain in the courtyard and a superb carved wooden screen in
the church specially made in Florence. Then we travel to Kalafati
Beach which is a world-famous beach in
Mykonos and has white sandy beaches which contrast with the deep blue Aegean Sea.
Our final stop is Mykonos
Town which is where the
jet set party. There are many
restaurants, shops, and of course the beaches.
Very beautiful but also very windy.
As we walk through Mykonos Town, we see where the last pirate of Mykonos was buried, the windmills, and the district
called Little Venice.
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