Greece
Medicinal & Cultural Practices Across Ikaria
Exercise your body and mind in Ikaria through transformative experiences including yoga, hiking, and visits to local medical institutions. You’ll explore several sites across Ikaria including Therma, Armenistis, and Rahes, each offering in-depth learning opportunities focused on the natural world and human body. Additionally, you’ll have the unique opportunity to learn medicinal and cultural practices from across Ikaria.
For groups of 15+
Highlights
- Discover the daily challenges faced by doctors and staff at a hospital in Agios Kyrikos.
- Learn about local anthropology, biology, and medicinal skincare in Rahes.
- Expand your knowledge on medicinal plants, natural history, and local culture through an herbal biodiversity hike beginning in Rahes.
- Renew your body with two yoga lessons including Vinyasa and restorative practices in Armenistis.
- Immerse yourself in Ikarian culture through a Tsantiris Winery tour.
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival
Depart home, fly to Ikaria, and transfer to accomodations in Therma. Upon arrival, enjoy a full day at the professor's discretion. (no scheduled program activities)
Day 2: Therma
Today you will walk from the hotel to the hospital in Agios Kyrikos to visit the premises and discuss the everyday challenges that the doctors and staff face during their service.
Day 3: Therma & Armenistis
In the morning transfer from Therma to Armenistis. Stop in Seychelles beach for 3 hours and have a meal near Evdilos on the way to Armenistis.
Day 4: Armenistis
Today, your bus will pick you up at hotel and transfer to Rahes, for a laboratory workshop at Synempe Lab to learn about local anthropology, biology and medicinal skincare.
In the evening, your bus will pick you up to visit Rahes area for a beekeeping activity. Learn about beekeeping techniques and the equipment necessary to harvest honey. You will go through the key steps to get to know bees, their lifecycle, their role in nature and the rich flora of Ikaria which offers different varieties of honey to be produced. Later stop for dinner in Rahes.
Day 5: Armenistis
Today, your bus will pick you up at the hotel and transfer to Rahes, the starting point of an herbal biodiversity hike. You will learn about medicinal plants, natural history and local culture.
Then transport to Nas beach for swimming and dinner.
Day 6: Armenistis
Transfer from your hotel to yoga center. Enjoy a 75-minute yoga lesson at 10 am (yoga Vinyasa), then return to your hotel. In the evening, your bus will take you to visit a Tsantiris winery and learn about the importance of wine in Ikarian culture, then return to your hotel.
Day 7: Armenistis
In the morning, you will walk to Messakti beach to attend a surfing lesson.
Enjoy the rest of the day at the professor's discretion.
Day 8: Armenistis
In the morning, you will depart from your hotel and visit Upper Chalaris Gorge to start a hiking tour, including a local snack. After the tour, return to the hotel.
Day 9: Armenistis
Transfer from your hotel to yoga center. Enjoy a 75-minute restorative yoga lesson at 10:30 am, then return to your hotel.
In the evening, bus transfer to visit the Thea’s Farm for a cooking class with the owner, Mrs. Thea. Return to your hotel.
Day 10: Armenistis & Athens
Today, transfer to Ikaria airport for a departure flight to Athens, where you will connect for your return flight home.
Optional Add-Ons Available Upon Request
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You can adjust the number of days, choose the level of accommodations or change the sites visited. We'll create a complete package, including: flights, meals, meetings space or whatever else you may need.
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