Six hours and three different busses from Nafplio around the top of the Peloponnese back through Corinth, we arrived in the small town of Olympia. Because of the obvious attraction, modern Olympia is a town sprung up solely to cater for the tourist market. We arrived at the site of Ancient Olympia an hour before closing, so it is just as well that the site is surprisingly small, maybe only 300 metres by 300 metres with a stadium tacked on the side. The ruins themselves are still very awesome and even cooler visiting in an olympic year. The stadium is still very much in its original shape, with even the original start and finish lines still intact.
Notice the pillars still in the position they fell:
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