Kos Kalymnos Island Tours
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Ferries run everyday from Cos Harbour.
We will organise your transfer from hotel to harbour.
Departure from Cos is at 09:30
45 min journey will take to Kalimnos
We organise a day island excursion by coach and have lunch in one of the select restaurants in the island.
Return departure is at 17;30
Arrive to Kos at 18.30
On two day tours we provide a select 3* 4* hotels at the island with HB overnight stay options.
In antiquity Kalymnos was known as Kalydna, or ‘good water’. The first settlements on the island date back to the Neolithic period (4000 BC), and the island has been inhabited ever since. Diving for sponges has its roots in antiquity, and it brought significant economic prosperity to the island, which minted its own silver coins in the 6th century BC featuring the lyre of god Apollo. In The Iliad, Homer reports that the island contributed 30 ships to the Trojan War. During the Persian Wars, Kalymnos was conquered by the Persians but then liberated by the Athenians; later, it came back under Persian rule. Roman occupation ensued. In the 7th century AD, Kalymnos was invaded by Arabs and pirates; the residents barricaded themselves behind castle walls built at high points, many of which survive to this day (something to see on your rest day). In the 14th century, the island came under the Order of the Knights of St. John, then the Ottomans. Italians occupied Kalymnos from 1912-1943, while the Germans took over in 1945. Following WWII the Dodecanese Islands, including Kalymnos, officially joined the Greek state in 1948.
