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 Tour
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
After having breakfast at the hotel, you will have free time to explore the town until tour pick-up time.
12:30/13:00 ─ Our staff will come to pick you up. And you will be transferred to the boat for lunch and a sightseeing cruise on Bosphorus between Europe & Asia continents.
Visiting: Bosphorus cruise (cruise between two continents), Just take a seat on our boat and get your camera ready for the best view of Istanbul’s landmarks from the sea (from the boat only, no interior visit). You will have a sea view of the Bosphorus Bridge, Dolmabahce Palace, Ciragan Palace, Beylerbeyi Palace, old mansions and old Pasha villas, Rumeli Hisari Fortress, and Istanbul city.
17:00 ─ Bosphorus Cruise tour will be ended.
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.
Elvis –
I and my auntie took a tour with toursce. We came from California. We originally signed up for 9 days but we found out we had 12 days holiday. Toursce was so flexible with our itinerary with the last minute changes. They are so quick to respond on phone/whatsapp and very reliable. Our 12 days in Turkey went by so smoothly and we had a superb time. We have seen a lot in just a short period of time. We are very pleased with the service that toursce provided. Definitely would use this travel agency group and will recommend this to my family and friends. Highly recommended, very reliable, and great service!
Fabiano –
My wife and I had an astounding vacation in Turkey. Thanks to Toursce tour company for arranging such a wonderful itinerary. We also want to thank your local tour guides for their knowledge and charisma. We hope to come back to beautiful Turkey again soon to explore places we were unable to see during this trip. Again, thank you Toursce travel group.
Sarah –
Firstly we want to give Erkan a major shout-out for putting together an amazing tour of Turkey for us. He really went above and beyond to organize everything for us and he even helped coordinate our covid19 testing at our hotel before returning back to the US. We are honestly so grateful to him for making our first time in Turkey an amazing experience. We only wish we could have met her to thank him in person. You are the best Erkan! Everyone on the tour itinerary that worked with Erkan had nothing but good things to say about how awesome he is.
Aylin and Oktay together for our 2-day tour of Cappadocia were a lot of fun and their energy made the tour exciting. Aylin is soo much fun and so funny! Both of them made everyone in our tour group feel cared for.
We had a great time on the Ephesus ancient city and white Pamukkale tours. That was so much fun and Birgul was an amazing local tour guide. I would highly recommend Birgul as a guide in Ephesus and Cotton Castle. We had a great time on these tours.
We ended our tour program with mystic Istanbul and had a full-day tour with Ugur. I read a lot of reviews on the trip advisor mentioning Ugur as their tour guide so I requested him for our private tour. Let me say that Ugur is so worth the hype. He was amazing! I was tempted to hire him to hang out with us the next day just because he was so much fun and knew everything about the history of Turkey. We learned soo much from him. He took us to an amazing place to eat fish in Istanbul and showed us how to have real Turkish coffee 🙂
Overall I’m glad We went with ToursCE Turkey company for organizing my visit to Turkey. We would highly recommend their travel team to anyone wanting to visit this beautiful country. Thank you again Erkan!
Richard –
The local guides, your staff were pleasant and helpful. The visiting sights we amazing and far exceeded my expectations. The accommodation was so clean. Great program I would highly recommend.
Gaylord –
We had a great time in Turkey, thanks to Tuna’s arrangement and advice. we usually don’t have plans on my trip but traveling in Turkey surely needs some help especially on the traffic and destinations. Tuna suggested to us the places I should see for 9 days and arranged everything. Even I was thinking to take the night bus because I did not know that there is a direct flight between Ephesus to Cappadocia. He did a great job for us. Arranged all of our transfers, hotels, and tours in Istanbul, Kusadasi, Pamukkale, and Cappadocia. He was very prompt in answering on the phone and Whatsapp any queries and we are so glad we chose their services. The transfers were all very smooth and all our tour guides were excellent in the tours, informative and wonderful with my little child. Turkey is a beautiful country not only because of the scene, but also the enchanting history that makes those cities/country even attractive. It would be great to visit this country again! I would highly recommend them!