12 Days Maximum Turkey Package Tour

Ziua 1 · Istanbul: Arrival

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   Sultanahmet District

   Trecere fără oprire

   Upon your arrival to Istanbul, we will welcome and transfer you to your hotel.

   You may spend the rest of your day freely to relax.

   You will spend the night in Istanbul.

Overnight in Istanbul

Ziua 2 · Istanbul: Full Day City Tour

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   Sultanahmet Square

   7 ore Intrarea inclusă

   Following your breakfast, your guide will pick you from your hotel for a full day Istanbul City Tour.

   Highlights you will visit: Sultanahmet (Blue) Mosque, Hagia Sophia, The Hippodrome, Balat Colorful Houses, Iron Church and Bosphorus Boat tour.

   In the end, you will be accompanied back to your hotel.

   You will spend the night in Istanbul.

Overnight in Istanbul

Ziua 3 · Canakkale: Full Day Gallipoli Tour

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   Gallipoli Battlefield

   6 ore Intrarea inclusă

   Around 6:30 AM in the morning, you will be picked up from the hotel by your guide for about 5-hour bus ride to Gallipoli. We will stop to have breakfast on the way optionally.

   As soon as you arrive, following your lunch in a traditional restaurant, the highlights will be: Brighton Beach, Beach Cemetery (John Simpson’s Grave), ANZAC Cove, Ari Burnu (First ANZAC landing place), Lone Pine Cemetery (Australian memorial), Johnston’s Jolly (walk in the ANZAC trenches), View of Shrapnel Valley, Turkish Memorial, The Nek and Walker´s Ridge, Chunuk Bair (main New Zealand memorial).

   In the end of your day, you will be taken to the ferry for Canakkale where you will spend your night.

Overnight in Canakkale

Ziua 4 · Canakkale: Full Day Troy and Pergamum Tour

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   Troy (Truva)

   6 ore Intrarea inclusă

   After your breakfast and check out from your hotel, around 8:30 in the morning, you will be picked up from the hotel by your guide to visit ancient Troy city.

   You will be amazed with cheerfully influenced Trojan Horse and you to will find more than 10 antiquated urban areas constructed one on another, from 3500 BC, passing through Apollo Temple believed to be the place where Anthony met Cleopatra. We will visit Roman Theatre, Greco-Roman Senate building once hosted democracy deputies with its round shape.

   Following Troy, we will drive to Pergamum where you will have your lunch. After that, we will visit Pergamum ancient city, a home for many important libraries in the old times.

   In the end of the tour, we will drive to Kusadasi to transfer you to your hotel for check in.

   You will spend the night in Kusadasi.

Overnight in Kusadasi or Selcuk

Ziua 5 · Ephesus: Full Day Ephesus Tour

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   Ephesus Ancient City

   6 ore Intrarea inclusă

   Right after your breakfast and check out from your hotel around 9AM, the full day Ephesus Tour will start.

   Highlights we will visit: Temple of Artemis -considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Celcius Library – while most libraries serve only the function of archiving books and documents, this one served as the final resting place of Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, in whose honor the library was built. Ephesus Ancient City with its marvelous highlights. House of Virgin Mary – is believed to be where she lived and died.

   Also, we will see old theatres, hammams, passing through harbour.

   In the end, you will be transferred to your hotel in Kusadasi.

Overnight in Kusadasi or Selcuk

Ziua 6 · Pamukkale: Pamukkale and Hierapolis Tour - Bus to Antalya

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   Pamukkale Natural Park

   6 ore Intrarea inclusă

   Following your breakfast around 7:30AM, we will pick you up from your hotel to start your full day Pamukkale Hierapolis Tour.

   Deriving from springs in a cliff almost 200 m high overlooking the plain, calcite-laden waters have created at Pamukkale (Cotton Palace) an unreal landscape, made up of mineral forests, petrified waterfalls and a series of terraced basins. We will also visit a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hierapolis which is one of the sacred sites of Turkey, dates back thousands of years and also admire the white limestone terraces, known as travertine’s of Pamukkale.

   We will see Necropolis – a large burial site generally it was located outside the settlement including Sarcophagus of a general of Marcus Aurelius. You will a chance to swim in famous Cleopatra Swimming Pool.

   During your tour you will have lunch.

   In the end we will transfer you to bus station for your approx. 4 hour bus to Antalya.

   Upon your arrival, we will welcome and transfer you o your hotel in Antalya.

Overnight in Antalya

Ziua 7 · Antalya: Perge, Aspendos Amphitheatre and Manavgat Waterfall Tour

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   Aspendos Ruins

   7 ore Intrarea inclusă

   Following your breakfast, your full day Perge, Aspendos Amphitheatre and Manavgat Waterfall Tour will start.

   Perge was an important city in ancient Pamphylia where there are important monumental structures from the Hellenistic period. It is believed that Perge was founded after the Trojan War by Greek settlers led by the seers Calchas and Mopsus.

   Then we will go to Aspendos, the theater here is one of the Roman Empire’s greatest remaining pieces of architecture. Later, we will visit one of the best Waterfalls in Antalya region.

   In the end, you will be accompanied back to your hotel.

   You will spend the night in Antalya.

Overnight in Antalya

Ziua 8 · Konya: Antalya to Cappadocia via Konya

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   Mevlana Muzesi

   5 ore Intrarea inclusă

   Following your breakfast and your check-out from the hotel, we will depart for Cappadocia.

   On our way we will visit Konya, which has been a home for the first Christian settlement and sanctuaries, also known as the embraced home of Rumi (Mevlana), the Sufic spiritualist who established the Whirling Dervish.

   Besides, Konya was one of the most vital exchanging center on the Silk Road in the past. After your optional lunch, we will depart for Cappadocia by around 3-hour minibus drive.

   You will be transferred to your hotel to spend the night in Cappadocia.

   Overnight in Cappadocia.

Overnight in Cappadocia

Ziua 9 · Cappadocia: Full Day North Cappadocia (Red) Tour

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   Goreme National Park

   6 ore Intrarea inclusă

   Optional Hot Air Balloon Ride Experience in Cappadocia is available this morning and subject to an extra cost.

   After your breakfast, we will pick you up for a full day North Cappadocia Tour.

   Highlights you will visit: Goreme Open Air Museum consisting of five Byzantine Orthodox churches, Devrent Valley and Pasabag where you will see animal and fairy-tale like rock formations, the ancient towns of Urgup and Avanos famous for its red clay pottery. You will also have fun trying to make potteries after a small demonstration.

   In the end, you will be transferred back to your hotel.

Overnight in Cappadocia

Ziua 10 · Cappadocia: Full Day South Cappadocia (Green) Tour – Flight from Cappadocia to Istanbul

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   Goreme Tarihi Milli Parki

   6 ore Intrarea inclusă

   After your breakfast and check out from your hotel, your Full Day South Cappadocia Tour will start with a pick-up.

   Highlights: Hiking in Red & Rose Valley, Cavusin Village, one of the oldest settlements in the region with its cave houses, Love Valley, Kaymakli Underground City, Pigeon Valley and Uchisar Castle.

   In the end, you will be transferred back to your hotel to wait for your pick-up to airplane terminal for your flight to Istanbul.

   Upon your arrival to Istanbul, we will welcome and transfer you to hotel in Istanbul.

Overnight in Istanbul

Ziua 11 · Istanbul: Free Day

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   Sultanahmet District

   Trecere fără oprire

   After having your breakfast, you will have a free day to explore the amazing city of Istanbul.

   You may buy souvenirs for yourselves, your families, friends and/or you may experience a Turkish bath (hammam), join a half day tour on the Bosphorus. You may also ask for other recommendations.

   Overnight in Istanbul.

Overnight in Istanbul

Ziua 12 · Istanbul: Departure

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   Sultanahmet District

   Trecere fără oprire

   We will lead you to the airport depending on your flight time for checking in after your breakfast and check-out from your hotel.

   Your memorable journey ends here.