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Hellenic Hotspots: 5 Great Greek Island-Hopping Tours

Whether it’s your first visit or you’ve been there before, planning a vacation to Greece isn’t a casual task! There’s so much to see and do that you’ll likely need several vacations to visit all your dream destinations. But why not travel off the beaten path a little on your next Greek voyage?

Besides the famous historical landmarks in Athens , the Greek islands are popular tourist getaways for their soothing blue waters, golden beaches, and phenomenal cultural experiences. Since there are over 2,900 islands in Greece, a Greek island-hopping tour could have you exploring almost endlessly. Ready to see what we mean? Get started by checking out some of the must-see islands in Greece.

Santorini is a popular bucket-list Greek holiday destination. You’ve probably seen Instagram photographs of the area’s famed white-washed walls and blue-domed homes in the background. These homes, which are stacked against the craggy cliff-tops, are a sight to see. Some of the even house charmingly romantic places to stay.

Tourists freely stroll through the lovely, pedestrian-only streets, stopping by for refreshments at local tavernas. If you treasure your peace and your quiet siestas, find a room with a pool and terrace to avoid the cruise ships’ hustle and bustle throughout the day. 

Corfu is a culturally rich area influenced by German, French, Italian, British, and Venetian traditions. Beachgoers from all over the world come to admire the island’s beauty. The green hills, noble houses, Venetian fortresses, and Greek temples make for the ideal backdrops for cultural exploration and romantic getaways.

Many travelers like to see the famous golden triangle of Athens, Mykonos, and Santorini. Mykonos , in particular, feels more cosmopolitan than other islands. It has a vibrant party scene and ample opportunities for you to engage in a little retail therapy. The island has world-famous beach clubs and offers sunset cruises along the southern shores.

History lovers might want to consider a day trip to Delos Island, which is thought to be Apollo’s birthplace. Or, you can explore ancient monuments, like the famous Windmills, Paraportiani Church, and Ano Mera village.

Want to experience splendor on a budget? Paros could be the destination for you. It’s a wonderful mix of taverns, nightclubs, and classic Greek streets dotted with fantastic cafés and gelato shops. There are also several prominent tourist attractions here. These attractions include the Church of 100 Doors, the Archaic Temple of Athena, and the Venetian Port. 

Naxos , the largest of the Cyclades Islands, has some of the nicest long, sandy beaches to visit. Its wide, shallow, and calm waters make it an appealing alternative to Mykonos if you’re aiming for a vacation that’s a bit more family friendly. Enjoy the picturesque white-painted villages and towns that make up its relatively small populated area.

The Best Island-Hopping Tour Packages

We’ve rounded up some of the best Greek island holiday packages and island-hopping tour packages to consider. Keep in mind that prices can change at any time, but these are great examples to help you start to budget for your trip. If you wish to create your own island-hopping plan to match your exact taste, feel free to skip to the next section.

11-Day Greek Island-Hopping Tour

• Islands: Athens, Mykonos, Paros, Naxos, Santorini
• Available From: Tourradar

What’s not to like about this tour? It takes you on an 11-day Greek island hopping excursion from Athens to Santorini and beyond! The price includes all accommodations, meals, transportation, and tour guide fees. You’ll only be responsible for covering flights and personal expenses like souvenirs. 

5-Day Labyrinth of Crete Tour

• Islands: Heraklion, Spinalonga, Knossos, Crete

For a more in-depth cultural experience, the five-day Labyrinth of Crete Tour is a good choice. History buffs will enjoy this specially designed excursion to Zeus’ birthplace. Keep in mind that the journey will begin and end in Heraklion, the capital of Crete. All prior travel arrangements are up to you.

10-Day Greek Island-Hopping Tour

• Islands: Crete, Santorini, Mykonos
• Available From: Trailfinders

A more flexible, exploratory tour to consider is the 10-day Greek island-hopping tour from Trailfinders. While the tour only covers three islands, each stop allows you to freely stroll about and learn about the local cultures and cuisine. With at least a full day at each location, you’ll have plenty of time to check off the items on your must-do list at every island.

Ultimately, a vacation package spares you the trouble of planning every trip detail. An all-inclusive Greece holiday package usually manages everything from organizing travel arrangements to booking accommodations. The only catch is that these packages have fixed itineraries — your package might include passing through an island you’ve already been to or aren’t interested in visiting. 

Customizing Your Own Island-Hopping Plan

If you want more control of your island-hopping vacation, create your own itinerary. If you choose this route, you need first to identify which islands you want to visit. You should also look into all-inclusive Greek resorts to enjoy.

You’ll most likely use a ferry to island-hop throughout your trip. You can check into island-hopping ferry routes to take throughout your tour. Here are some examples of island-hopping routes that different ferry companies cover in each island group for your reference.

• The Argosaronic Islands – Aegina, Agistri, Poros, Hydra, Spetses
• The Sporades Islands – Skiathos, Skopelos, Alonissos, Skyros
• The Ionian Islands – Zakynthos, Kefalonia, Ithaca, Lefkada, Corfu, Paxos
• The Western Cyclades – Folegandros, Milos, Kimolos, Sifnos, Serifos, Kithnos, Kea
• The Dodecanese Islands – Rhodes, Symi, Tilos, Kos, Karpathos, Kalimnos, Nisiros, Leros
• The Eastern Cyclades Islands – Tinos, Mykonos, Paros, Naxos, Amorgos, Iraklia, Ios, Santorini
• The Northern Aegean Islands – Samos, Fournoi, Ikaria, Chios, Lesvos, Limnos- Samothraki, Thassos

Finally, it’s best to have a “home base” on one island and make day trips to others. Your “home base” should have an airport where you may fly in and out from your island-hopping trip. Consider selecting the capital of the island to serve as the starting and ending point of your island-hopping tour.

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Kangaroo Island sits just off the coast of mainland South Australia and is only a short ferry ride away. This protected nature reserve is home to native Aussie wildlife like kangaroos, koalas, sea lions, penguins and other birds.

Our Kangaroo Island tours from  Adelaide  will get you exploring this coastal giant and with wildlife experiences such as Seal Bay, and jaw-dropping sights like Remarkable Rocks and Admiral Arch, and wildlife reserves like the west Flinders Chase National Park, you'll be glad you did! 

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Kangaroo Island Backpacker Tours

Explore this stunning region by choosing the best Kangaroo Island backpacker tour. With golden beaches, epic sunsets and native wildlife, Kangaroo Island is no less than an idyllic oasis. Boasting 891 species of native plants, koalas, baby kangaroos and more, the Island is Australia’s premier wildlife destination. Grab the opportunity and immerse yourself in Australian wildlife – explore the landscapes, vegetation, food and interactive wildlife experiences which Kangaroo Island has to offer. Here are some great ideas for things to do in Kangaroo Island!

Kangaroo Island Backpacker Tour Must Do Activities

• 2 Day Kangaroo Island Tour
• Discover Vivonne Bay
• Sand Board at Little Sahara
• Explore Seal Bay
• Visit the Remarkable Rocks at Flinders Chase National Park
• Come face to face with a Kangaroo
• Enjoy some South Australian Wine

Kangaroo Island Climate

Kangaroo Island – like most of South Australia – has a Mediterranean climate with summers (December to February) being warm with cool evenings. During autumn (March to May), the pastures begin to green up, waterways and catchments begin to flow and it is a time for transition, a stunning time of the year with warm days and calm seas.

Activities on Kangaroo Island

If you miss the typically snowy Januarys in the northern hemisphere, you can enjoy some sand boarding on Little Sahara’s dunes in the late afternoon, while any animal lover will be eager to stop at Seal Bay, a long sandy beach with a large breeding colony of sea lions. You can often see newly born sea lion pups playing in the sand and the adults riding the waves or resting at the beach after three days feeding at sea. Sitting on the coast of Flinders Chase National Park, Remarkable Rocks is a great spot for some holiday photos. Formed by erosive forces over 500 million years, the rocks have taken on incredible shapes and set a challenge for photographers at all times of the day as the light and shade keeps changing. Another amazing rock formation is Admirals Arch, which has been shaped by the sea and provides a great place to spot the colony of long-nosed fur seals that call this place home. The boardwalk that leads to the Arch is an enjoyable experience in itself.

Kangaroo Island Adventure Tours

Kangaroo Island Wilderness Explorer Tours are led by fun-loving, professional guides who also happen to be Kangaroo Island specialists. Following your 45 minute journey from the mainland, the comfortable, 20-seater coach will be waiting as you disembark the SeaLink ferry at Penneshaw. Prepare for an entertaining and information packed journey filled with pristine wilderness, spectacular coastline and unforgettable characters from both KI’s human and animal kingdoms.

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Action and Adventure on Kangaroo Island

….continued from  Impressions of Adelaide

This morning we woke to another inclement day and after a shower, we head to the General Store for a quick bite of breakfast.

First stop on the agenda today was a good hour drive away at the far south-west of the island. We drove on the main sealed road past vineyards and paddocks before arriving at the Flinders National Park.

A quick stopover at the Visitors Centre was needed to purchase our park passes. In the center they had a great exhibition of animal skins and rock samples, it was quite an educational experience and would be very interesting for children (as everything is hands-on).

Another 15 kms into the park we encountered the Remarkable Rocks. These rock formations are perched on a cliff face near the ocean and make for a wonderful sight. We wandered around the rocks climbing and taking photos before heading to our next stop, Admirals Arch.

Only one kilometer along the road was a beautifully kept lighthouse that had been built in 1909 to try and put a stop to the large number of vessels that had been coming to grief nearby.

Walking down the boardwalk we encountered a large colony of New Zealand Fur Seals that were lazing on and around the rocks. There was a very pungent fishy smell but you couldn’t stop smiling at these magnificent creatures up close in the wild.

Admirals Arch was at the bottom of the boardwalk and made for a great snapshot as there were some seals perched below.

On our journey back we stopped again at the Visitor Centre and ate lunch. The food was delicious and I would highly recommend it. (So much so that we decided to grab some baguettes to have for dinner later that night).

We had planned to check out the seals at Seal Bay which was a short drive east of our cottage, but on arrival, the Park Ranger explained that it was another $27.50 pp fee to have a guided tour to the beach (really the only way you could get up and close), so we decided to give it a pass on this occasion.

The sun was now starting to fall so we headed back towards our cottage, stopping for a quick walk at Little Sahara (a number of white sand dunes that were just off the side of the road).

With the sun setting, we made it back home just in time for a brief stroll along Vivonne Beach before chilling out for the rest of the night.

After patches of rain overnight, we woke to our second day on Kangaroo Island to clear blue skies. If there’s one thing that we’ve learned about the Island, it can be sunny one moment and then drizzly the next.

With nowhere nearby to eat breakfast except Vivonne Bay General Store (and liquor shop and petrol station), it was a repeat of yesterday’s bacon and egg sandwich before we headed over to  Kangaroo Island Outdoor Action  to go quad biking and sandboarding (with time not on our side we decided to give kayaking down Harriet River a miss).

We had booked the 2.5-hour extreme adventure quad biking experience – which Lisette was slightly apprehensive about, given that she is rather uncoordinated on anything with four wheels and perches on the other side of ‘speed demon’ status.

However, with the company catering to children as young as six, we soon realized that quad biking is pretty easy to learn – the bikes simply need to have the ignition started, the start button pushed and the gear shifted to forward and you’re off.

Probably the only thing challenging is keeping your thumb continually pushed on the throttle to move – by the end of the adventure, it feels like your thumb is going to drop. You’re also more than adequately geared up – you get a helmet, gloves, and goggles before you jump on.

Our guide, Mick, was awesome – attentive, funny, and informative, he took us through open plains, windy paths, and incredibly bumpy trails where we encountered kangaroos, manmade lakes, sleepy koalas, funky native trees (including the spiky ‘black boy’) and lots of puddles!

We also had a brief pit stop to walk down to the beach below, admire the rugged coastline being lashed by some pretty ferocious looking waves, and check out a bee’s nest that had apparently been thriving there for years. Lisette still managed to almost run into a tree in line with her lack of coordination, but no serious damage to person or vehicle done.

Lunch was a drive 14 kilometers away to the Marron Cafe. Marron is a crustacean that is darker and bigger than a yabby – which looks like a cross between a lobster and a prawn. The Marron Cafe grows its own produce which means that the food is fresh and absolutely delicious.

Starving after the drive on the quad bikes, we practically inhaled our lunches – and if Lisette could have licked the bowl any further, she would have (the marron in garlic and parsley sauce, served with rice and salad with a balsamic dressing is divine, while the whiting with the cafe’s own lemon myrtle tartare sauce is worth raving about too).

Adjacent to the Cafe is the marron viewing area, where you can learn about the breeding process. In about a dozen deep vats, about 5,000 marrons were categorized by weight, awaiting their fate to land as cafe meals or to be sold commercially. We settled instead for some wine tasting, which lead to us getting five bottles of Pinot Gris and a pear liqueur being mailed to us within a week’s time.

The thought of scampering around the sand dunes of “Little Sahara” on a board, on our bellies, then doing it all over again was enough to make our seafood and wine-filled bellies churn. However, we drove back and tried it out. Michael was a natural at sliding while Lisette… well, if she’s uncoordinated on four wheels I’d say that she’s even more so on a board.

My tips for a successful sandboard? If you’re using a toboggan-style board, make sure it’s well waxed on the bottom each time, run across the top before sliding onto the board, and slide on your belly rather than sit on the board to get more control and speed.

Rushing back to our lodge to shower and pack, Michael used his newly-acquired speed demon skills to zoom halfway across the island in time for a quick dinner and ferry ride back to Adelaide. The only place open near the terminal was a rather classy-looking pub.

If there’s another thing we’ve learned about the Island, it’s that the food is absolutely delicious – and incredibly gourmet. How does dukkah-coated snapper served on a bed of Asian greens and mango mayonnaise, or a red chicken curry with julienned vegetables with a side of jasmine rice sound?

Just making it on time to catch the ferry, after 45 minutes it was back on the mainland and what felt like a long and tiring drive back to our hotel in Adelaide. Finally arriving, we both had hardly hit the pillow before we were sound asleep.

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