Greece: The Ancient Civilization: Visiting Athens and Three Islands in Aegean Sea

August 08, 2023

Greece: The Ancient Civilization:

Visiting Athens and Three Islands in Aegean Sea

Sachi G. Dastidar

Our interest to see the ancient civilization was fulfilled recently, with Dr. Shefali S. Dastidar. Taking part in tours in various parts of the city, its beautiful coast – a popular tourist attraction and place for relaxation – was nice to first hand.

Apart from the seeing the architecture of the old city of Athens, and its welcoming citizens, it was good to see how Greece has accommodated peoples from Africa and Asia. In some parts of the city those non-natives, now local, seemed to dominate the space highlighting Greece’s tolerant civilization. For a tourist it was also great to see how Athens has digitized its economy so that public transportation is completely based on self-verification, not connected with the driver. There were no ticket checkers.

Ethnic diversity was such that the first restaurant from our hotel was Bangladeshi-Islamic restaurant where we had our lunch. And in our public bus there were wonderful young men and women who identified as from Ghana, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan, and from many other countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh.

It was enjoyable to see how this ancient civilization attracted tens of thousands of tourists from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia.

During cruise of Islands, we met lots of tourists from developing countries including South America, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Africa.

One of the most difficult parts of visiting Greece during the summer of 2023 was its record heat, was that a result of Global Warming?

Here are few pictures from the ancient structures in the city many are 2,000+ years old, some areas of modern city, and three islands in Aegean Sea: Aegina, Hydra, and Poros. All the islands were picturesque, however, devoid of any greeneries. In Aegean Sea there are many uninhabited islands too.