Through The Lion's Gate

Every weekend, a field trip somewhere in the Peloponnese is planned.  On our first weekend in Greece, we visited the ancient site of Mycenae ---  very appropriate, considering we are excavating at a Bronze Age site ourselves!
I had only a slight idea of what this site would look like because of the pictures I've seen in my textbooks.

It is OUT OF THIS WORLD!
The Cyclopean walls that surround this site are amazing --- and to enter the actual complex, you must walk through the Lion's Gate --- UNBELIEVABLE!

Once you reach to top of the complex, you feel like you are on top of the world and surrounded by mountains!

There is a cistern as well which people can go down and reach the bottom where it is nice and cool... Yes, I went!

It was pitch black and thank goodness my friend had an extra flashlight!  We reached the bottom and took a bunch of pictures goofing off with little there was to goof off with --- Good times!

We toured the museum at the site afterwards and saw impressive and beautiful artifacts.

Then, we toured the shaft graves which are colossal -- holy crap!

We were also scheduled to visit the nearby town of Nafplion later in the afternoon, and so after our visit to Mycenae, we headed over to this very picturesque town that looks like it came straight out of a postcard.  More about Nafplion when my roommate and I will spend a full day in a couple of weeks!