If you want to get away from it all when traveling in Greece, head for the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Driving about an hour west of Athens, you cross over the Corinth Canal—a four-mile-long shipping lane neatly sliced through the isthmus that connects the Peloponnese with the rest of Greece—and pass the ruins of ancient Corinth to enter the fabled peninsula.
Studded with antiquities, this land of ancient Olympia, Mycenae, and Sparta offers plenty of fun in the eternal Greek sun, with pleasant fishing villages, sandy beaches, bathtub-warm water, and none of the tourist crowds that plague the much-scrambled-after Greek Isles.
