10/22/2026
Our day started with a beautiful sunrise as we sailed into Kos, an island known as the "Floating Garden."
With a local guide and historian, we visited the Asclepion, a sacred healing centre on the hills outside town dating to the 4th century BC. It was named for Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, and ancient Greeks and Romans came here to recover and heal. Kos is also the birthplace of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, and we stood beneath the Tree of Hippocrates, where tradition says he taught his students. We finished with free time to explore the market in the Old Town.