{"id":11815,"date":"2026-08-02T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/?p=11815"},"modified":"2026-08-02T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:18:10","slug":"southern-peloponnese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidstravelworld.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/02\/southern-peloponnese\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Peloponnese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

R’s parents decided to join us for a months while we explore Greece’s Peloponnese. We started in the south, near Kalamata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arfara<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We based ourselves in the small town of Arfara. The town was very cute with everything you need: 3 supermarkets, 1 pharmacy, 1 butcher, 1 bakery, 1 Gyros restaurant, and 2 bars. Our house was positioned in an olive grove just a 2 minute walk into the center of town. The view over the olive trees and onto the mountains was beautiful – especially at sunset. The gardens also included several fig trees, an orange tree, a lemon tree and tortoise named Sugar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On one of the first days, we went to the local beach to have a swim and discovered a great bar that had cheap drinks and played reggae music. The kids especially loved it and kept begging to go back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ano Arfara<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our apartment host told us that there was going to be a festival up in the mountains in the town of Ano Arfara starting around 9pm. Usually, the ‘Ano’ (meaning Old) is located near the ‘new’ town, but not in this case. We found ourselves going for a 1 hour drive through very narrow, windy mountain roads. It seemed that we were heading for nowhere. But, eventually we made it to the town and there were a couple of hundred people there, eating food from a food truck, drinking beers and listening to local music. We found out later that it was a festival for a saint that the church in the town was named after. The priest from our town sat with us and a few others at our table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you want to hear some of the music, you can play this video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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