4th GPU Photo Festival 2017, updated July 16th to July 23rd 2017. GREEK ISLANDS (Santorini, Mykonos, Samos, Patmos, Rhodes) - Athens ACROPOLIS - TURKEY EPHESUS - CRETE Dear photo friends, As you already know, from 16th to 23rd of July 2017., GPU will be organizing its Photo Festival in Greece. We invite all of you to participate in this photo festival giving all of us the opportunity to meet all together and have a week knowing one another better, making stronger relationships, have fun and entertain ourselves and shoot some great photos from the places we will visit. The program will be as following: July 15th: arrival in Heraklion (airport HER Nikos Kazantzakis) transfer to the hotel-dinner. July 16th: Embarkation on the cruise boat for a cruise in Greek islands and Ephesus Kusadasi Turkey. First destination Santorini. Thira Oia Oia
July 17th: Piraeus Acropolis or Lavrio in the morning, Mykonos in the afternoon. Acropolis Lavrio Mykonos Mykonos
July 18th: Samos or Kusadasi Turkey. Ephesus in the morning, Patmos in the afternoon. Samos Ephesus Ephesus Ephesus Patmos Patmos
July 19th: Rhodes Rhodes Rhodes Rhodes
July 20th: Disembarkment on Crete. We will visit various places of the island. July 21st: Crete July 22nd: Crete July 23rd: Departure Rethimnon Knossos Knossos Arkadi
Heraklion The total cost will be 1100 Euros per person in a double room and 1500 Euros for a single room, including everything from the moment the participant arrives at the Heraklion airport till his/her arrival back to the airport on the departure day. The cruise boat is a 5* boat and all hotels will be 4* or 5*. In the cruise everything is included (food x3, drinks, excursions to all places, entertainment, etc). The same in Crete! In the photo festival anyone can participate even if he/she is not a member of our association. If you decided to participate, please fill out the participation form and send it to gpuphotofestival@gmail.com. PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS: The total amount of 1100/1500 euros must be paid till 10. February 2017. Send the money to: Global Photographic Union IBAN: GR96 0172 7540 0057 5408 5331 062 SWIFT-BIC: PIRBGRAA PIRAEUS BANK S.A. HERAKLION GREECE BANK 2754 L. KNOSOU
Every participant must write his/her name and the names for the participants he/she pays for and send a copy to the email: gpuphotofestival@gmail.com If someone else is paying for you, he/she should state your name in the payment, so we can avoid any possible confusion. The deadline for the payment is 10. February 2017. In case of cancelation: Up to 30 days before the trip: 75% will be refunded. From 30-20 days before: 50% will be refunded. From 20-10 days before: 25 & will be refunded. 10 days or less: No refund. VERY IMPORTANT - VISA Multiple Entry Visa is required for Greece, for all participants from non- Schengen countries and simple visa for all participants from Turkey. It is very important to know that no one can embark on the ship in Heraklion without the visa for Turkey. For this reason please contact your countries embassies of Greece and Turkey asking for visas details. Important note: For those who don t like to go to Turkey. If any of the participants doesn t wish to arrive in Turkey, Kusadasi Ephesus, they can disembark on the island of Samos which is a new destination of the cruises program. After Turkey the boat will return to Samos to pick them up. All participants must have the Turkish visa in case the weather is too bad and it does not allow the boat to approach the island of Samos. (Not very likely to happen). I hope to see you all next July in Greece!!! Metzakis Manolis GPU President