10 Days Turkey Package Tour Starting from Istanbul

Meal: Lunch

Between 06:00 and 07:00 am - Depart from Istanbul for the Gallipoli Peninsula in the morning.

Pick-up is available only from centrally located hotels. Central hotel areas are Sultanahmet, Sirkeci, Beyoglu, Taksim, and Fatih.

The journey takes about 5 hours and includes one stop on the way. You may have breakfast during this stop at your own expense.

Around 12:00 - You will arrive in Canakkale and enjoy lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, you will be transferred to the Gallipoli tour area.

• Beach Cemetery: A quiet coastal cemetery where many ANZAC soldiers rest only a short walk from the landing shore.
• ANZAC Cove: The narrow beach where Australian and New Zealand troops came ashore in 1915 under intense fire.
• Ari Burnu Cemetery: A peaceful cemetery with open sea views, holding graves from the earliest days of the campaign.
• ANZAC Commemorative Site: The symbolic gathering place for dawn ceremonies honoring everyone who served on this peninsula.
• Respect to Mehmetcik Monument: A moving tribute to the Turkish soldiers who defended their homeland during the campaign.
• Lone Pine Australian Memorial: A key Australian memorial area where trenches, cemetery rows, and remembrance plaques tell a powerful story.
• Johnston's Jolly: Preserved Turkish and Allied trench lines show how close the opposing sides lived and fought.
• Turkish 57th Infantry Regiment Cemetery: A solemn cemetery dedicated to the regiment remembered for its sacrifice during the first landings.
• The Nek: A narrow ridge remembered for tragic charges and one of the campaign's most haunting battlefield stories.
• Chunuk Bair New Zealand Memorial: A high ridge with dramatic views, marking the hard-fought New Zealand advance of August 1915.

17:00 - Transfer to your hotel in Canakkale after the tour.

Overnight stay in Canakkale

Meal: Breakfast

08:15 - Pick up from your hotel in Canakkale and transfer to Troy.

• Troy Ancient City: Alexander the Great came to Troy in 334 BC, honored Achilles, and used the city to connect himself with Homeric legend. With that story in mind, the Bronze Age walls, altars, gates, and later Roman layers feel less like isolated ruins and more like a stage that shaped rulers for centuries.
• Trojan Horse Replica: The wooden horse replica gives a visual anchor to the legend before you walk into the archaeological layers. It is not an ancient object, but it helps connect the literary Troy of the Iliad with the excavated city under your feet.

12:30 - Continue south by intercity transfer toward Kusadasi/Selcuk after the tour. The bus departure time may change according to the intercity schedule.

Around 17:00 - Once you arrive at Izmir Bus Station, we will welcome you at the bus station and transfer you to your hotel in Kusadasi/Selcuk.

Overnight stay in Kusadasi/Selcuk

Meal: Breakfast

This is a free day in Kusadasi/Selcuk. You can rest at your hotel, go shopping, walk along the seafront, or explore nearby places independently at your own pace.

Overnight stay in Kusadasi/Selcuk

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

08:30 - After breakfast at your hotel, you will be picked up for a full-day tour of Ephesus.

Transfer to Ephesus Ancient City.

• Ephesus Ancient City: Marble streets worn smooth by millions of ancient footsteps lead you past temples, fountains, and public buildings frozen in remarkable condition. Ephesus was once a city of 250,000 people, and its Great Theatre, still seating 25,000, makes that number feel real. Standing on the stage, looking up at row after row of stone seats, you begin to understand just how powerful this ancient Roman city once was.
• House of Virgin Mary: Located on a forested hillside about seven kilometers from Ephesus, the House of Virgin Mary offers a natural contrast to the open marble ruins of the ancient city. The drive up through pine trees, the cool air at the higher elevation, and the hush of the chapel interior all combine to make this feel like genuinely different experience. Most visitors appreciate the pace change after the busy main site.
• Temple of Artemis: Visitors who arrive at the Temple of Artemis site expecting to see dramatic ruins sometimes feel surprised by the modest reality of one reconstructed column in an open field. But that first impression quickly gives way to something more interesting once a guide explains what the field represents, the footprint of a building that defined an entire era of ancient architecture. Seeing nothing can be as powerful as seeing everything, when the story is told well.

16:00 - The Ephesus tour ends.

You will be transferred back to your hotel in Kusadasi/Selcuk.

Overnight stay in Kusadasi/Selcuk

Meal: Breakfast

This is a free day in Kusadasi/Selcuk. You can rest at your hotel, go shopping, walk along the seafront, or explore nearby places independently at your own pace.

Overnight stay in Kusadasi/Selcuk

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

08:00 - After breakfast at your hotel, you will be transferred to Pamukkale for a full-day tour.

• Pamukkale: Nature spent thousands of years building Pamukkale one thin mineral layer at a time. Thermal water loaded with calcium carbonate overflows the hillside and slowly hardens into smooth white terraces as it cools. The result is a UNESCO-listed landscape in Denizli that has fascinated visitors since ancient times.
• White Calcium Terraces: Pamukkale's travertine looks bright white in photographs, but standing on it you notice subtle textures: ridges, ripples, and mineral patterns left by thousands of years of flowing water. The surface underfoot shifts between smooth and slightly rough depending on how recently each section was active. These small details remind you that this is not a built structure, it is geology in slow motion.
• Hierapolis Ancient City: Walking through Hierapolis, you cover roughly two kilometers from the city's northern necropolis to its southern gate, with the theater and main temple area roughly in the middle. That distance sounds manageable but the open hillside provides no shade in summer, so comfortable shoes and water are essential. The site above Pamukkale rewards slow exploration, there are details carved into nearly every fallen column worth stopping for.
• Cleopatra Antique Thermal Pool: Cleopatra Antique Thermal Pool delivers a genuinely unusual combination: swimming in open water surrounded by ancient Roman columns at a comfortable 36 degrees Celsius. The columns fell into the pool during a powerful earthquake centuries ago, and conservationists have left them in place as part of the site's history. If this sounds like your kind of optional extra, bring money for the on-site entry fee, which is not covered by the tour.

16:00 - The Pamukkale tour ends.

You will be transferred to Pamukkale Bus Station.

17:00 - Departure by bus to Antalya. The departure time may change; the trip takes around 3 hours with regular stops.

Around 20:00 - Arrival at Antalya Bus Station.

You will be transferred to your hotel in Antalya.

Overnight stay in Antalya

Meal: Breakfast

After breakfast at your hotel, you will have the entire day free to enjoy Antalya at your own pace. You may choose to relax on the beach, take a stroll through the old town, or simply unwind with the sound of the Mediterranean waves.

Overnight stay in Antalya

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

08:15 - Transfer to the first touring area and meet your guide.

You will have lunch at a local restaurant during the tour.

• Perge Ancient City: Perge was one of the great cities of ancient Pamphylia and features a well-preserved colonnaded main street, a substantial Roman theatre, large thermal baths, and a columned agora. It receives fewer visitors than Ephesus and feels more spacious, which makes the guided experience here especially clear and unhurried.
• Aspendos Theatre: The Aspendos theatre is widely considered the best-preserved Roman theatre in the world, with both the stage building and seating tiers standing to near-original height. The acoustic quality of the space is still tested in the live performances staged here each summer.
• Side: Side occupies a narrow peninsula between two beaches and contains a well-preserved main street, a temple of Apollon facing the sea, and a Roman theatre that competes with Aspendos for scale. The combination of ruins, coastline, and small-town atmosphere gives it a different mood from the inland sites.

Around 17:00 - The Perge, Aspendos, and Side tour ends.

You will be transferred to Antalya Bus Station. With an available overnight bus to Cappadocia, you will travel overnight to Cappadocia. It takes about 9 hours with 2-3 breaks on the way.

Overnight intercity bus to Cappadocia

Meal: Lunch

Around 07:00 - Arrival at Cappadocia Bus Station. You will be transferred to your hotel to wait for the day tour in the lobby. Early check-in is available only if the hotel allows it.

Transfer to the first touring area and meet your guide.

• Devrent Valley (Pink Valley): A short walk from the parking area takes you into Devrent Valley's main formation field, where the most recognizable animal shapes are clustered together. Your guide will give you time to explore independently and find your own favorite formation.
• Pasabag Open Air Museum: Pasabag's popularity means it attracts large groups at peak times, typically between ten and noon on summer days. Red Tour guides generally time the Pasabag stop either early or after the midday peak to give visitors a quieter experience.
• Avanos Pottery Workshop: Avanos is a small working town, not a purpose-built attraction, and walking briefly through its streets before or after the workshop visit adds useful context to what you see inside. The river, the market, and the workshop all make more sense when seen together.
• Goreme Panoramic View: Morning light is the defining quality of Goreme Panoramic View: the eastern sun casts long shadows across the valley floor and turns each chimney's western face into warm gold. Arriving before ten is a genuine recommendation, not a marketing phrase.
• Zelve Open Air Museum: Zelve's 1952 relocation is one of modern Cappadocia's most significant events, prompted by the structural instability of cave sections that had been continuously carved and expanded for over a thousand years. The residents were moved to Yeni Zelve, a new village built nearby, and many of their descendants still live there.
• Uchisar Castle (exterior view): Uchisar Castle's exterior stop works well as the Red Tour's final sightseeing moment because the scale of the formation provides a natural sense of visual closure. After a day of valleys, chimneys, and cave sites, ending at Cappadocia's largest and most commanding landmark gives the tour a satisfying structural conclusion.

17:00 - The North Cappadocia tour ends.

You will be transferred to your hotel.

Overnight stay in Cappadocia

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

09:30 - Breakfast, hotel check-out, and departure for the day program.

• Red Valley: Sunlight behaves differently inside Red Valley than it does on open plateaus, filtering between tall rock columns and casting long geometric shadows across the trail. Photographers who understand light make specific visits to Red Valley timed around mid-morning, when shadows are sharp and the warm tones of the rock are fully saturated.
• Rose Valley (Gulludere Valley): Local guides in Cappadocia describe Rose Valley as the most consistently beautiful stretch of canyon in the region, citing its combination of natural color and carved heritage sites. Repeat visitors to Cappadocia often return to Gulludere Valley specifically, citing it as the experience they remember most vividly from previous trips.
• Cavusin Village: Recent stabilization work at Cavusin has secured some sections of the cliff face and improved access paths through the upper settlement without altering the site's fundamental raw character. Visitors who explored old Cavusin a decade ago will notice changes in which areas are now accessible, reflecting ongoing efforts to balance heritage preservation with visitor safety.
• Pigeon Valley: A dramatic canyon stretches the length of Pigeon Valley between Uchisar and Goreme, with sheer cliff walls on both sides rising steeply above a trail that follows the canyon floor. Looking up from below, you can count hundreds of carved pigeon house openings arranged in rough rows across the cliff faces at every accessible height.
• Underground City: Ancient wells and water collection points inside Cappadocia's underground city gave residents access to fresh water without surfacing, a critical infrastructure element for a community under siege. Some wells reached natural aquifer layers deep in the volcanic bedrock, providing a reliable water source independent of surface rainfall or river access.

17:00 - South Cappadocia tour ends.

The guided program ends and you are transferred to the airport.

19:30 - Flight from Cappadocia to Istanbul. (Flight time may change.)

20:50 - Arrival at Istanbul. (Arrival airport and time may change according to availability.)

Your tour ends here. If you need an airport transfer or hotel reservation, please contact us and we will share price and availability details.