What can you say that can truly capture the profound experience of making the same seemingly endless and tortuous trek across an expanse of mountainous Greek countryside that thousands of hopeful feet of both the low and the mighty had trod over millennia in quest of their fate as mouthed in oracular gibberish by an illiterate village woman high on the hallucinatory fumes exuded by the porous rock forming her mountain niche shrine. The long, dusty zigzag path up to the Oracle’s ruined Temple of Apollo is marked by other equally fascinating ancient ruins all the way up to the sacred mountain top. The sight and the experience is inexpressibly moving. If you can make this ancient pilgrimage, do it.

It was October 2023. It was in the evening when I walked to the temple with my other 2 friends. We left the hotel and walked to the temple. When I was about 500–600 metres from the temple, I started to feel the energies in my whole body, coming down from the top of my head to my spine. It was like being in deep meditation! Unbelievable!

The Temple of Apollo and its sister Archeological Museum plus the Temple of Athena Pronaia just a few hundred meters away are special sites. Their history is fascinating and I highly recommend hiring a tour guide to join you during your visit here. The Temple of Apollo housed the Oracle of Delphi under its main level--fascinating history!