Istanbul - Arrival Day
Welcome to Turkey, Istanbul Airport. Meet with local staff and transfer to your hotel for your first night. Transfer from airport & check in to your hotel. Overnight in Istanbul.
Istanbul - Arrival Day
Welcome to Turkey, Istanbul Airport. Meet with local staff and transfer to your hotel for your first night. Transfer from airport & check in to your hotel. Overnight in Istanbul.
Istanbul City Tour
(Open buffet breakfast and local lunch included)
Pick up at 08:30am from your hotel for the full day tour of old Istanbul city.
LUNCH (Drinks are extra)
After the tour, transfer back to your hotel.
Free evening and optional Istanbul evening shows or Bosphorus dinner cruise including traditional Turkish entertainment and dinner. Overnight in Istanbul.
Istanbul – Pamukkale
(Open buffet breakfast, local lunch, local dinner included)
After breakfast depart for Bosphorus Cruise tour. Enjoy a magical Istanbul Bosphorus Boat Cruise and Spice Market Tour starting at 08:30.
Lunch break at the Turkish restaurant.
After the lunch depart for Istanbul Ataturk or Sabiha Gokcen Airport for domestic flight to Pamukkale. Transfer from airport and check in to your hotel in Pamukkale.
Overnight in Pamukkale.
Pamukkale Tour - Kusadasi
(Open buffet breakfast, local lunch, local dinner included)
09:30 Pick up from your hotel and full day Pamukkale Tour starts.
First destination is Karahayit to see Red Spring Water. We will drive to Pamukkale and visit Hierapolis after Karahayit. The highlights of Hierapolis are Necropolis, Roman Baths, Domitian Gate, Latrina, Oil Factory, Frontinus Street, Agora, Byzantium Gate, Triton Fountain, Cathedral, Apollon Temple, Plutonium, Theater and Antique Pool.
Later we will take some photos from the nicest corners of Pamukkale. Free time for about 60 minutes to explore the natural beauties of Pamukkale. Then meet with the guide, start walking in the middle of travertines from up to down without shoes and socks.
We will have lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch, drive to Kusadasi and overnight.
Ephesus & Sirince Village Tour
(Open buffet breakfast, local lunch, local dinner included)
First we will visit Artemis Temple, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, standing today next to Ephesus antique city. Then we will drive to Ephesus. Ephesus was one of the most important harbor cities in antique world and also it is mentioned in the book of Revelations as one of the seven churches. Also Celsus Library and theater in Ephesus are the other highlights.
In Ephesus we will see, Celcus Library, Temple of Hadrian, the fountain of Trajan and the Theater. We will have lunch in a local Turkish restaurant and drive to Virgin Mary’s house. This place is discovered by Lazarist priests after a German nun described the house and the mountain as the last residence of Virgin Mary after she had some visions about the place.
Today this place is a Muslim and Catholic, being cared by Lazarist Fathers. Lazarist Fathers still celebrating the mass every day. The last stop is Saint John Museum in Selcuk on Ayasuluk Mountain. You can find the remains of the Basilica of Saint John.
16:00 End of the tour. Drive back to your Hotel. Overnight in Kusadasi.
Izmir –Kayseri – Cappadocia
(Open buffet breakfast, local dinner included)
After breakfast, transfer to the airport to take a flight to Kayseri. Upon arrival, transfer to the hotel. Overnight in Cappadocia.
Cappadocia
(Open buffet breakfast, local lunch, local dinner included)
Visit Devrent Valley to see the unique fairy-chimneys. Drive to Pasabag (Monk's Valley) to see the most interesting mushroom-shaped pinnacles. Drive to the city of Avanos. In the afternoon visit another beautiful open air museum at Goreme where the remains of rock-cut churches and Christian settlements date back hundreds of years. Lastly, before returning to your hotel, visit the natural castles at Uchisar. Overnight at Cave Hotel Cappadocia.
Cappadocia – Home via Istanbul
(Open buffet breakfast included)
After breakfast check out from the hotel
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