Turkish Express Tour - 9 days
Small Group Tour / Guaranteed departures
Accommodation in Superior First Class Hotels (4-5 star)
• Istanbul (2) • Ankara (1) • Cappadocia (2) • Pamukkale (1) •Kusadasi (2)
Category:
Guaranteed departures, land journey, most popular cities, ideal for first-time travelers
Day 1: Arrive Istanbul
Arrive at Ataturk airport in Istanbul and transfer to our hotel.
Overnight: Istanbul
Day 2: Istanbul City Tour (B)
Breakfast at hotel and begin full
day sightseeing tour of Istanbul. We’ll visit
Topkapi
Palace
(harem section is optional), ancient Roman Hippodrome
(center of the chariot races). We will continue our
Sultanahmet tour with the Blue Mosque and finally we
will stop at Grand Covered Bazaar.
Day 3: Istanbul - Ankara
(B, D)
Today you can join the optional
Hagia Sophia and Bosphorus cruise Tour. Departure for
Ankara
around 15.00 hrs and late arrival at
Ankara. Overnight:
Ankara
Day 4: Ankara -
Cappadocia (B, D)
After breakfast
we will visit the Ataturk Mausoleum and Anatolian
Civilizations
Museum.
(selected
Best
European
Museum
of the Year in 1997) Then we depart to
Cappadocia. We will visit 13th century
caravanserai; caravanserais are inns built by Seljuk
Turks to ensure travel and trade safety of the merchant
caravans traveling on the Silk Road.
Arrival to the Cappadocia region and overnight. Overnight: Cappadocia
Day 5: Cappadocia (B, D)
Today we will begin our tour on this magical land; the
unique landscape of cone-shaped volcanic formations
called fairy chimneys. We will walk through the volcanic
valleys to view the spectacular fairy chimneys at Zelve,
visit the rock-carved churches and chapels containing
remarkable frescoes in
Goreme
Open
Air
Museum,
the natural carved fortress Uchisar and Sarhatli
underground city. We will return our hotel for dinner.
Overnight:
Cappadocia
Day 6: Cappadocia – Pamukkale (B, D)
After breakfast we will drive to
Pamukkale, ancient spa center and the unique natural
site of white limestone terraces cascading down the
mountain slope. En-route we will pay a visit to
Konya, city where Mevlana Rumi is
buried, founder of the most well-known Sufi order,
Mevleviye. They are also known as the “Whirling
Dervishes” due to their famous practice of whirling
ceremony called Sema which represents a spiritual
journey through mind and love to "Perfect”. In
Konya, we will visit the
Mevlana
Museum
and then continue to Pamukkale for overnight. Overnight:
Pamukkale
Day
7: Pamukkale – Kusadasi (B, D)
Today early morning we’ll visit
Hierapolis, the ‘Sacred
City’,
it is a World Heritage Site, and a "must-see" location
with the largest Necropolis. Then departure to Kusadasi
for dinner and overnight. Overnight: Kusadasi
Day 8: Ephesus & St. Mary tour (B,
D)
After breakfast we’ll begin tour of
glorious Greco-Roman ruins of
Ephesus, one of the best preserved classical
city of the Eastern Mediterranean
dated back to 2000 years. Later we will drive to the
hilltop where we visit the miraculously discovered
Virgin Mary’s House. Return hotel for dinner and
overnight.
Day 9: Departure (B)
Transfer to
pier. (Optional transfer to Izmir
airport and flight to
Istanbul)
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