Olympia Uncovered: Exclusive Tour with a Professional Archaeologist

We highly recommend Michael as our guide to Olympia! He is extremely knowledgeable as he has worked on an excavation team on the site for years. He did an excellent job of making the ancient Olympic grounds come alive! Our tour was delayed because of heavy rain, but when the rain let up a bit, we donned Ponchos and started exploring. The benefit was that we had the place to ourselves and instead of cutting our tour short, Michael stayed with us until we saw everything. His knowledge of the history and culture of the ancient Olympic games helped us imagine what it was like. He has a academic approach to his tour, but keeps you laughing with unexpected humor. Do not skip the museum part of the tour. There are unexpected treasures inside!

You not get a better tour guide Olympia and the company archaeology museum than an archaeologist who is actually presently working on a dig in the site! He was engaging, told wonderful stories that brought the site to life and pointed out the locations of the items we would see later at the archaeological Museum to give it context. We went with our Viking included Tour to get back-and-forth from the ship, Michael negotiated with the Viking reps on the site to get our tickets and then time the tour so we could meet our group for the return to ship. The boat tour was just the site and most people had no idea of the extraordinary treasures that the archaeological museum held nor where they had once been located on the site. He also kindly shared some restaurant at places that we were visiting the following week independently Highly recommend doing a tour with Michael!

Michael was an excellent tour guide. Smart, kind, funny, knowledgeable and patient. His English is excellent and he knows the history and the highlights incredibly well. Very friendly guy. Highly recommend a tour with him!

We had a wonderful time exploring Olympia with Michael! He is so knowledgeable and a great teacher. My two daughters (12 & 17) were very engaged and also enjoyed the tour. Highly recommend touring the site and museum together with Michael as you’re able to connect all that you learn on the site with the artifacts within the museum.