Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Greek Trip 31/05/12: Olympia Archaeological Site

The site of Olympia, located in a valley of Peloponnesus. This is the birthplace of Olympic Games that is being held every four year since 776 B.C. Olympia became a centre for the worship of Zeus in the 10th century B.C., and it has one of the highest concentrations of masterpieces from the ancient Greek world. Whatever we see today are the remains of all the sports structures erected for the Olympic Games.

I know some might see only "rocks" and "stones" in this post but hey, we were at the birthplace of Olympic which were around centuries ago, so it wasn't that bad after all.

Happy viewing!!!

Landed




Again, six of us (including cab driver) in the cab


Horse and carriage, hmm, no time for that








This toilet is the coolest I've ever been to, it feels like air-conditioning system was installed in it

Woon capturing his journal


As I told earlier, rocks everywhere...








At least this Corinthian columns looks like a proper structure












This is where they used to lit the famous Olympic torch













Some young archaeologists



Fooling around

The leaves for covering up important parts











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