Day 1 - Arrival in Istanbul
Meal: No Meal
When you arrive at Istanbul, our confidential transportation service will pick you up from the airport to transfer you to the hotel. Today you may want to rest the whole day because of tiring travel. Spend the rest of the day at your own leisure.
Stay overnight in Istanbul.
Day 2 - Istanbul Old City Tour
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
08:30 ─ After the breakfast at the hotel, our representative will pick you up from the hotel and you will begin with a cultural tour in Istanbul. Today you will visit, Hagia Sophia – cathedral that would surpass the gigantic size, Blue Mosque – a historic mosque, Hippodrome – a center for sports and entertainment in the old Constantinople, Grand Bazaar – the largest and the most attractive covered bazaar in the world, and Topkapı Palace – the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans. And also you will have a lunch on 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 - Half Day Bosphorus Cruise
Meal: Breakfast
08:30 am ─ You will be picked up from your hotel to visit the Spice Bazaar one of the most colorful bazaars in Istanbul that offers numberless spices, Turkish delights, caviar, dried nuts and more. And also it is s one of the largest bazaars in the city. Then, we will join the breathtaking Bosphorus boat tour. Enjoy viewing Ottoman palaces, Bosphorus Bridge, citadels, centuries-old mansions, and the European and Asian shorelines at the same time.
12:30 ─ The half-day Bosphorus cruise will be over.
You will be transferred to the centeral area. The rest of the day is your leisure.
Stay overnight in Istanbul.
Day 4 - Fly to Izmir & Ephesus 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. (Exactly flight time will be confirmed at the time of booking according to availability.)
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 first destination, of course, is the Temple of Artemis, first built during the archaic period and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Then the route continues with Ephesus which was a vibrant city of over 250,000 inhabitants, the fourth largest in the empire after Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch. You will have a break for lunch before visiting House of Virgin Mary that the peaceful site is sacred to both Christians and Muslims, and is visited by many tourists and pilgrims. And, through the end of the tour, we will visit a first architectural example of the Ottoman Period.
17:00 ─ The Ephesus tour will be over.
You will be transferred to your hotels in Kuşadası.
Stay overnight in Kuşadası.
Day 5 - Full Day Pamukkale Tour
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
08:00 ─ You will be picked up from the hotel in Kuşadası, and taken to the meeting point in Selçuk 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 tour will begin in Pamukkale by exploring both picturesque travertine formations, built up over the millennia from limestone deposited by the abundant hot springs, and the ancient city of Hierapolis with the collonaded streets, temples, bathhouses, necropolis, and theatre of the remains of an idyllically located Greek-Roman spa city. In there, you will have an hour of free time. You can even bathe, as the Romans once did, in a picturesque pool filled with warm (around 36C), mineral-rich waters and swim amongst submerged columns of great antiquity. The tour guide will inform you about the exact meeting point and time.
16:00 ─ The Pamukkale tour will be ended.
You will be transferred to your hotels in Pamukkale.
Stay overnight in Pamukkale.
Day 6 - Bus to Antalya
Meal: Breakfast
After breakfast in the morning, you’ll be transferred to Denizli main bus station to go Antalya. The journey takes approximately four hours. When you will get Antalya, you will be met and taken to your hotel. The rest of the day is free.
Stay overnight in Antalya.
Day 7 - Perge, Aspendos, Side, and Kurşunlu Waterfall Tour
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
In the morning, you will be picked up from your hotel to travel to Perge, once the capital of Pamphylia and founded by Mopsus and Calchas in the 13th century B.C. The ancient theatre, the Hippodrome, the bath, the agora and the houses of the city was completed at scale by reflecting 2000 years before the experience. After these beauties, we will drive to Aspendos which one of the best-preserved examples of Roman theatre architecture in the world. After lunch, you will visit Kursunlu Waterfalls and then continue to Side, a city with a long and rich past, as testified by the numerous ruins from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine eras.
After the tour, you will travel overnight to Cappadocia in a non-smoking, fully air-conditioned local bus departing the bus station at approximately 22:00 pm. The journey takes 11 hours and there will stop on the way for personal needs.
Overnight internal bus trip to Cappadocia.
Day 8 - Arrival & Cappadocia Day Tour I
Meal: Lunch
Upon your arrival at the Goreme bus station in Cappadocia, you will be met at the bus station and transferred to our office to meet your tour guide and another tour participants at around 09:30.
The tour will begin by visiting Devrent Valley, houses unique pointed fairy chimneys with large stems. Next address is Pasabag Monks Valley surrounded by incredible natural rock formations. Before lunch, you will see the centers of pottery production in Avanos. After lunch you will visit the beautiful open-air museum, a complex of several painted cave-churches carved out by Orthodox monks. Finally towards the end of the day tour before returning to your hotel, you will be able to visit the natural castles of Uchisar constructed on the highest point of the region.
17:00 ─ The Cappadocia tour will be ended.
You will be transferred to your hotels.
Stay overnight in Cappadocia.
Day 9 - Cappadocia Day Tour II & Fly to Istanbul
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
09:30 ─ After the breakfast and checkout from the hotel, you will be picked up and met by your tour guide to begin your full day tour of South Cappadocia. Your tour guide will brief you on the day’s activities.
The first place to visit is the Red Valley where you will have nice views to take pictures of fairy chimneys and caves. Next, Çavuşin Village will wait for us, where the empty rock houses, monk caves, and shelters and learn about the people who once lived here. We will take a break for lunch around noon. After lunch, you will drive to the Pigeon Valley, which hosts pigeon houses carved from the cliffs and rocks. In the afternoon, you will visit the underground city where you will see a subterranean network of homes, stables, cellars, and kitchens.
17:00 ─ The second Cappadocia tour will be over.
You will be transferred to the Kayseri or Nevşehir Airports according to the flight availability.
19:30 ─ You will fly from Cappadocia to Istanbul. (Flight time may change due to the season and availability of flight.)
20:50 ─ Landing to airport in Istanbul.
9 days refreshing Turkey holiday package tour will be ended.
Trisha –
My family and l spent nine days in Turkey, touring Istanbul, Cappadocia, Kusadasi Ephesus, and Pamukkkemule. We had a very fun and amusing excursion, with nice and suitable hotels, the fantastic local tour guides who were passionate about sharing the history of each site we visited. Thank all.
Mohammad –
We just wanted to thank you and all your travel team for the trip. All of them went smoothly and we had a superb time with my family in Turkey. All the local tour guides were ideal. The drivers meeting us from planes and buses were there on time as planned. All our family tour package went impeccable from the beginning to the end. We will highly recommend you and will revisit you again. Best regards.
Tommy –
It is a well-organized trip, fully escorted from the beginning until the end. Hotels are ideal. We really enjoyed all the sightseeing places we visited and would like to travel back to spend more time exploring Turkey. Especially in Cappadocia and the big cities. All the people we met were wonderful and our tour guides were excellent.
Jarrosson –
Worth 5 stars… The entire tour was a little expensive for us but overall excellent. The pickup time was prompt and since it was a small group of only 14 travelers (7 couples), the pick up from each hotel was very quick. The tour guide was Hamza and the driver was Cemil, high praises for both. All very accommodating and understanding. Hamza was knowledgeable and knew the history. And was also honest enough to admit when he didn’t know the answers to complex questions. The places we visited seeped in history.In many instances, history and mythology blended to give us a clue to the Turkish culture. I will not go into details of the places we visited and what we saw in each destination. That definitely depends on people’s preferences. The first we stayed at Hotel Dosso Dossi in Istanbul. The next at Ilayda Avantgarde Hotel in Kusadasi and Colossae Thermal Hotel in Pamukkale. The next hotel was Khan Hotel in Antalya and the last hotel was the Mdc Cave Hotel in Cappadocia. All of them were very good. We recommend this travel group for everyone.