Homecoming Journeys is a travel initiative of the Greek America Foundation, offering carefully curated experiences in Greece that connect people more deeply to the country’s culture, history, food, landscapes, traditions, and people.
Each journey is designed around a specific theme or host, creating a more personal and intimate way to experience Greece. Some journeys may focus on food and local producers. Others may explore wellness, history, art, heritage, nature, or contemporary Greek life. What they share is a commitment to access, authenticity, and storytelling, bringing participants into contact with Greece that exists beyond standard tourism.
Through shared meals, local encounters, meaningful conversations, and thoughtfully planned experiences, Homecoming Journeys invites participants to see Greece not only as a destination, but as a living culture. These journeys are created for people who want to experience Greece with greater depth, purpose, and connection.
Why this project?
From Gregory C. Pappas, President & Founder
Homecoming Journeys brings people closer to the culture, places, people, and values that inspire the Greek America Foundation’s programs. Through meaningful travel, we create opportunities for deeper connection to heritage, to community, and to the living spirit of Greece today. These journeys are another way we share Hellenic culture: not from a distance, but through lived experience.
Current Journeys
Our current Homecoming Journeys are open for booking through WeTravel. Each experience is intimate, carefully curated, and designed to bring travelers into deeper contact with Greece through food, culture, place, movement, memory, and meaningful connection.
CorePower Yoga Mykonos Yoga & Wellness Retreat
Mykonos, Greece
September 14-20, 2026
A week of light, balance, and effortless beauty in the heart of the Cyclades, led by CorePower instructors Beth O’Reilly and Dave Porter and created through Homecoming Journeys by the Greek America Foundation.
Highlights include daily yoga, a luxury private villa stay in Mykonos, private chef cooking experiences, a Delos excursion, a catamaran cruise with lunch, curated meals, meaningful downtime, and seamless logistics.
Homecoming Journeys — Kazani Weekend 2026
Archanes, Crete, Greece
October 22–25, 2026
A four-day Homecoming Journey in Archanes, Crete, hosted and curated by Greg Pappas and built around the island’s autumn kazani tradition of raki, food, music, and gathering.
Highlights include Cretan wine and shared meals, shepherd and cheesemaking traditions in the Psiloritis region, Anogeia, a Minoan-inspired ceramics workshop, and a private kazani celebration with food, raki, live music, and dancing. Accommodation is booked separately.
A Pre-Lenten Homecoming Journey with Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos
Athens & the Peloponnese, Greece
February 28–March 8, 2027
An intimate pre-Lenten journey through Athens and the Peloponnese with Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos, created for Greek Americans seeking a deeper connection to Orthodox faith, heritage, history, food, village life, and ancestral memory.
Highlights include Ancient Corinth, Agia Moni, Mycenae, Kalavryta, Mega Spileo, Patras and Tsiknopempti, Pylos and Messinia, kolyva-making and Saturday of Souls, Ancient Messene, and Mystras.