Day 1 - Arrival in Istanbul
Meal: No Meal
When you arrive in Istanbul, our confidential transportation service will pick you up from the airport, and transfer you to the hotel. You should rest after the tiring journey. Or you can explore the city on your own.
Stay overnight in Istanbul.
Day 2 - Full Day Istanbul City Tour
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
08:30 ─ After having breakfast at the hotel, our staff will come to pick you up. And you will be transferred to the first destination of the Istanbul city tour.
The places you will visit are; Hagia Sophia Museum where you can see the unique relics, Blue Mosque which is one of the magnificent structure of Ottoman Empire, Hippodrome which was used as a sports center in old times, the Grand Bazaar where you can find anything around the world and Topkapı Palace which a headquarter of Ottoman Empire. And also, you will have a lunch break during the tour.
17:00 ─ The Istanbul old city tour will be over.
You will be transferred to your hotels.
Stay overnight in Istanbul.
Day 3 - Bosphorus Cruise & Two Continents Tour
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
You will have breakfast at the hotel and you will meet our professional tour guide at the hotel lobby. Then, the tour will begin by visiting the Spice Bazaar, one of the oldest closed markets, which has many species all over the world you can find. Soon after, we embark on the Bosphorus ferry for an unforgettable cruise along the Bosphorus connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara and it is about 30 km long. After a lunch break, we continue driving across the first Bosphorus Bridge & head for the summit of Camlica Hill which one of the highest hills of the city, located on the Asian side, from where you can have a great panorama over the city and the Bosphorus. Driving back to Europe over the Bosphorus Bridge, we visit Dolmabahce Palace one of the most glamorous palaces in the world with more than 340 rooms & eight Turkish Baths the Imperial Residence of the last six Sultans.
17:30 ─ Istanbul tour will be over.
You will be transferred to your hotels.
Stay overnight in Istanbul.
Day 4 - Fly to Izmir & Ephesus Day Tour
Meal: Lunch
05:00 am ─ After the checkout from the hotel, you will be picked up.
You will be transferred to the Airport.
07:00 am ─ Flying to Izmir from Istanbul.
(Please note that flight departure and arrival time may change according to season and month)
08:00 am ─ Landing to the Izmir Airport.
When you will arrive at Izmir, you will be taken to Selçuk to start the magnificent tour with accompanying professional tour guide.
The Temple of Artemis, which has 127 high columns of which thirty-six of them sculpted with the freezes and gifted to the temple by the neighboring kings, is become our first destination point. Then, to Ephesus which its heyday in the first century BC, it was the second-largest city in the world, with only Rome commanding more power we will drive. After visiting this impressive site, you will have a break for lunch. After lunch, you will visit the House of Virgin Mary, a small house in the Bulbul Mountains as the final resting place of the Virgin Mary. Afterward, you will visit the Isabey Mosque.
16:00 ─ The Ephesus tour will be over.
You will be transferred to your hotels in Kuşadası.
Stay overnight in Kuşadası.
Day 5 - Pamukkale Day Tour
Meal: Lunch
08:00 ─ You will be picked up from the hotel in Kuşadası, and taken to the meeting point in Selcuk where the full group will first meet.
08:30 ─ Transportation takes three hours and has a break for personal needs, will begin with the departing from Selçuk to Pamukkale
11:45 ─ Arriving in Pamukkale. You will have a lunch at a local restaurant.
13:00 ─ The guided tour will begin in Pamukkale which is the center of natural thermal spring waters with healing properties. Due to the chemical properties in the water, pure white colored travertines and stepped water terraces have been created on the mountain slope. Then, we also see the biggest Necropolis of Anatolia in the ancient city of Hierapolis which is not located not on earth or rock, but on solid limestone layers formed. At the end of the guided tour, you will have some free time to explore the area on your own. As an option, you may choose to swim in the Pamukkale antique pools (at own expense) during this free time.
16:00 ─ The Pamukkale tour will be ended.
You will be transferred to your hotels in Kusadasi.
Stay overnight in Kusadasi.
Day 6 - Fly to Cappadocia & Free Day
Meal: Breakfast
You will have breakfast at the hotel in Kusadasi, and check out. You will be picked up from your hotel and transferred to Izmir Airport to take your flight to Kayseri or Nevsehir via Istanbul. When you arrive at the destination point, our transportation service will meet you, and take you to Cappadocia. Rest of the day is free.
Stay overnight in Cappadocia.
Day 7 - North of Cappadocia Tour
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
09:30 ─ After the breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotels and transferred to the first location.
The first Cappadocia tour will start with a visit to the Devrent Valley famous for its red color lunar landscape with the best-formed and most thickly clustered different rock formations. Next address will become Paşabağ Monks Valley contains some of the most striking fairy chimneys in Cappadocia with twin and even triple rock-caps. After this visit, you will drive to the city of Avanos where the ceramic trade in this area and its numerous pottery workshops date right back to the Hittites. After lunch, you will visit the beautiful open-air museum of Goreme, the center of painted frescoes. Towards the end of the day tour before returning to your hotel, you will be able to visit the natural castles in Uçhisar, a troglodyte village.
17:00 ─ The first Cappadocia tour will be ended.
You will be transferred to your hotels in Cappadocia.
Stay overnight in Cappadocia.
Day 8 - South of Cappadocia Tour - Istanbul
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
09:30 ─ After breakfast and checkout, you will be picked up from your hotels and transferred to the first location.
The fairy tour will begin by visiting Red Valley, its name comes from the reddish rose-colored rock that varies in hue and intensity depending on the time of day. Next, Çavuşin Village which was abandoned several decades ago due to rock falls was all carved into the hillside will become our destination point. We will take a break for lunch around noon. After lunch, you will drive to the Pigeon Valley its name comes from the thousands of pigeon houses that have been carved into the soft tuff since ancient times. In the afternoon you will visit the Kaymakli Underground City built under the hill known as the Citadel of Kaymaklı and was opened to visitors in 1964.
17:00 ─ The second Cappadocia tour will be ended.
You will be transferred to the Kayseri or Nevşehir Airports according to the flight availability.
19:30 ─ You will fly to Istanbul.
(Please note that flight departure and arrival time may change according to season and month)
20:50 ─ Landing to the Istanbul. You will be transferred to your hotels in Istanbul.
Stay overnight in Istanbul.
Day 9 - End of the Service
Meal: Breakfast
You will have breakfast at the hotel, and check out before 12:00 pm; you will be transferred to you airport as per your international flight details.
9 days captivating Turkey tour package will be ended.
Gregory –
I want to thank you for organising this tour package for my family so quickly. Our family decided at the last minute to book a trip to Turkey to celebrate our 36th wedding anniversary and this was absolutely wonderful. All our tour guides and other travel team were fantastic, knowledge, humor, and patience made our holiday something special. They were very sensitive to our needs and requests as well as gave us various options based on our preferences. Knowing that you were readily available to us if we needed to ask anything was very comforting. Thank you again for a wonderful 9 days holiday in Turkiye 🙂
Carlos –
We were three couples and enjoyed an amazing tour in Turkey. We have got incredibly educated about the history and architecture of Turkey and we fell in love with the natural beauty of Turkey. Istanbul, Pamukkale, and Cappadocia were a dream. WOW, the Ephesus, the ruins were absolutely one of the most incredible sights I’ve ever seen and we felt very auspicious to have a guide who shared so much knowledge of the region and the ruins with us while being very gracious and hospitable. I would definitely recommend this tour. This is a tour worth taking!