1 Olives ripening on tree with the remains of am ancient temple in the background.
2 Our ship, the EasyCruise Life, is a no-frills cruiseship that allows you to spend almost all of your waking hours on land.
3 They have "Bugs Bunny on Ice" in Greece, too.
4 Tricky navigation during the pre-dawn hours through the 75-foot-wide Corinth Canal. This is the canal wall and the left side of the ship.
5 Right side of ship and wall of the canal -- a tugboat guides the ship through.
6 We only bumped the side a couple of times. See bridge ahead.
7 The canal widens a bit here. Construction of the canal was completed in 1893.
8 End of canal is ahead
9 The canal is about 4 miles long and was completed in the late 1800's. Don't be fooled by those lovely spas on the ship deck. They were only lukewarm.
10 Approaching Kiato
11 While docked at Kiato we took an excursion to the ancient acropolis of Mycenae.
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13 Beautiful Greek Orthodox church in Kiato
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15 Lions Gates at entrance of the palace of Mycenae
16 a tunnel leading to the outside of the palace wall
17 Some remains of the cyclopean (refers to style) wall that surrounds the citidel
18 Door hinge - hole carved into stone for the hinge of the heavy, wooden door of the city wall gate.
19 Northern gate
20 The palace of Mycenae thrived from about 1500 BC until 1200 BC when it was destroyed by fire.
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22 Back side of Lion's Gate
23 Entrance to some burial areas within the palace walls.
24 grave circles where shaft graves of royalty were found
