7 Days Konya, Cappadocia, Gobeklitepe and Mount Nemrut Tour from Istanbul

Meal: Lunch

05:00 - Pick up from your Istanbul hotel and transfer to the airport. (Pick-up time may change according to your flight and hotel location.)

07:35 - Flight from Istanbul to Konya. (Flight time and airport may change according to season, airline schedule, and operational availability.)

08:35 - Arrival in Konya, airport welcome, and transfer to the city center.

• Mevlana Museum: The Mevlana Museum is the spiritual heart of Konya, built around the tomb of Mevlana Rumi. Its tiled dome, dervish heritage, manuscripts, and ceremonial spaces make the city feel connected to centuries of Sufi tradition.
• Selimiye Mosque: Selimiye Mosque stands beside the Mevlana complex and reflects the Ottoman layer of Konya. Its balanced courtyard and elegant interior create a calm architectural transition from shrine atmosphere to city life.
• Karatay Madrasa: Karatay Madrasa is a Seljuk theological school famous for its refined tile work. The building helps explain why Konya was one of the intellectual and artistic centers of medieval Anatolia.
• Meram panoramic area: Meram is the green, open side of Konya, known for gardens, water channels, and wider city views. The stop gives a softer landscape break after the monumental city center.
• Alaaddin Mosque: Alaaddin Mosque sits on the historic hill of Konya and preserves the memory of the Seljuk sultans. Its location shows how the old capital was organized around power, faith, and public space.

17:00 - The tour ends and you will be transferred to your hotel.

Overnight stay in Konya.

Meal: Breakfast

After breakfast and check-out, transfer to Konya Bus Station for your intercity bus to Cappadocia.

12:00 - Bus to Cappadocia. The journey takes about 3.5 hours with 1-2 short breaks on the way.

15:30 - Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel and check in.

Overnight stay in Cappadocia.

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

09:30 - Pick up from your hotel and start the north Cappadocia route.

• Devrent Valley: Devrent is known for imaginative volcanic rock shapes that resemble animals and figures. It is a visual introduction to Cappadocia, where erosion turns soft stone into a natural sculpture field.
• Pasabag: Pasabag has some of the most dramatic fairy chimneys in the region, including multi-capped formations linked with early hermit life. It is one of the clearest places to understand Cappadocia geology.
• Avanos Pottery Workshop: Avanos sits beside the Red River, whose clay has supported pottery production for thousands of years. A workshop visit connects Cappadocia landscapes with a living craft tradition.
• Zelve Open Air Museum: Zelve was once a cave village and monastic settlement spread through several valleys. Its abandoned homes, churches, tunnels, and passages show how people adapted the volcanic rock to daily life.
• Goreme panoramic view: The Goreme viewpoint gathers the valleys, cave dwellings, and volcanic forms into one wide frame. It is one of the best places to understand the scale of central Cappadocia.
• Uchisar Castle exterior view: Uchisar Castle rises above the region as a natural rock citadel. From the outside, it shows why this high point became both a settlement landmark and a defensive lookout.

17:00 - The tour ends and we will transfer you back to your hotel.

Overnight stay in Cappadocia.

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

09:30 - Hotel pick-up for the south Cappadocia route.

• Rose Valley: Rose Valley is known for warm pink and red tones created by mineral-rich volcanic layers. The valley also hides cave rooms, walking paths, and small churches carved into the slopes.
• Underground City: The underground city reveals a hidden Cappadocia below the surface, with tunnels, storage rooms, ventilation shafts, and defensive stone doors designed for protection during unstable periods.
• Pigeon Valley: Pigeon Valley is lined with dovecotes carved into the cliffs, once used to collect fertilizer for vineyards. The viewpoints also give wide looks toward Uchisar.
• Gulludere Valley: Gulludere combines soft-colored rock formations with cave churches, vineyards, and walking paths. It brings a quieter, more textured side of Cappadocia into the day.
• Cavusin Village: Cavusin is an old rock-cut settlement where cave houses and churches climb the cliff face. It shows how village life once blended directly into the stone.

17:00 - The tour ends and we will transfer you back to your hotel.

Overnight stay in Cappadocia.

Meal: Breakfast

After breakfast and check-out, your driver will meet you at the hotel and you will travel by private vehicle from Cappadocia to Sanliurfa. This is a driver-only transfer without a guiding service. The scenic journey takes about 7 hours, with planned comfort stops and time to break the road on the way.

Overnight stay in Sanliurfa.

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

• Gobeklitepe: Gobeklitepe is one of the most important prehistoric sanctuary sites in the world, older than settled farming communities as we usually imagine them. Its T-shaped pillars and animal reliefs reshape the story of ritual life before cities.
• Sanliurfa Archaeology Museum: The Sanliurfa Archaeology Museum gives context to Gobeklitepe and the wider prehistoric landscape, with original finds, early human figures, and displays that connect the region across thousands of years.
• Haleplibahce Mosaic Museum: Haleplibahce Mosaic Museum protects refined Roman mosaics discovered near the old city. The Amazon mosaics and delicate floor scenes show a very different layer of Sanliurfa history.
• Pool of Abraham: The Pool of Abraham is one of Sanliurfa s most sacred places, associated with the Abraham tradition and surrounded by courtyards, mosques, and shaded walking areas.
• Hasimiye Square: Hasimiye Square keeps the old bazaar atmosphere alive, with stone passages, local shops, tea houses, and the everyday rhythm of the historic city center.

After the tour, drive to Adiyaman or Kahta for hotel check-in. The transfer takes approximately 2 hours.

Overnight stay in Adiyaman/Kahta.

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

After breakfast at the hotel, tour pick-up will be done and the Adiyaman heritage route will begin.

• Karakus Tumulus: Karakus Tumulus is a royal burial mound from the Commagene period, marked by surviving columns and animal sculptures. It introduces the dynastic world behind Mount Nemrut.
• Arsemia Ancient City: Arsemia was a royal sanctuary and summer capital connected with the Commagene kings. Its inscriptions, reliefs, and hillside setting give important context before the Nemrut summit.
• Cendere Bridge: Cendere Bridge is a remarkably preserved Roman bridge built with massive stone blocks over the ancient river gorge. It shows the engineering strength of the region after the Commagene era.
• Mount Nemrut: Mount Nemrut requires a mountain approach and a final uphill walk to the summit terraces. The colossal heads, royal tomb sanctuary, and high-altitude views make the site feel both archaeological and ceremonial.

At the end of the tour, we will transfer you to Adiyaman Airport.

20:30 - Flight from Adiyaman to Istanbul. (Flight time and airport may change according to season, airline schedule, and operational availability.)

22:40 - Arrival in Istanbul and transfer to your hotel.

The tour ends after hotel drop-off in Istanbul.