We spent a day and a half in Joshua Tree National Park before heading to Death Valley. Donna has visited briefly many years ago.

We spent a day and a half in Joshua Tree National Park before heading to Death Valley. Donna has visited briefly many years ago, but Steve has never been there. It was a bit less expensive at Death Valley to delay our arrival a couple days and put Joshua Tree first.

Donna wanted to visit Delphi, which is a day trip from Athens. Delphi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We booked a tour that started at a hotel that was a short walk away from where we were staying.

Steve is feeling a little better today.

Still not feeling well, Donna carried the camera bag for me.

We leave the ship and transfer to a room in Athens for a few days.

The primary attraction in Kusadasi is a trip to Ephesus. We saw Ephesus on our trip to Turkey the year before, so we chose to walk over to Pigeon Island also known as Güvercinada, to see birds and the old fort.

The ship arrived at 7:30 am and docked in Heraklion. We saw a number of tour groups headed to Knossos right away, so we decided to head to the Archeological museum first.

We had booked a tour to Delos from the ship for today. Delos is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The ship arrived at 9 am, and Santorini is a tender port. Santorini was once known as Ancient Thera. We were not able to book the ship’s tour of Akrotiri, because those tours filled up before we booked the cruise. But we figured out how to do it on our own.