Upon arrival you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Welcome briefing will be held.

Enjoy a full day tour including a visit to Topkapi Palace Museum, residence of the Ottoman Sultans between 1453–1852 (excluding harem). Visit the Hippodrome, which was once the center of life where chariot racing and other public events took place. Tour the Blue Mosque built between 1609 and 1616, famous for its blue ceramic tiles. Next see St. Sophia, a church built in the 6th century Byzantine capital, converted to a mosque by the Ottomans, and now a museum and one of the world’s greatest architectural wonders. Your last stop will be the famous Grand Bazaar, the world’s largest and oldest covered market with over 60 streets. Join an optional dinner with belly dancing entertainment. 

Meals: Breakfast

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In the morning, depart for Gallipoli, the site of many battles during WWI. Visit Anzac Cove, Lone Pine Cemetery and Chunuk Bair, then cross the Dardanelles to Canakkale for overnight. 

Meals: Breakfast / Dinner

Visit Troy with its famous wooden horse, best known for being
the setting of the Trojan War and many cities built on top of each other. Before arriving into Asclepion, enjoy lunch with locals in a traditional local village . Then continue to Pergamum to visit the ancient Medical Center in Asclepion and continue to İzmir for overnight.

Meals: Breakfast / Lunch.   Optional: Dinner at local restaurant

Tour the famous ruins of Ephesus, an important cultural center of the ancient world, and explore 2,000 year-old marble streets, a theater, the Library of Celsius, a gymnasium and Hadrian’s Temple. Take a short drive to see St. Mary’s stone cottage where it is believed Virgin Mary spent her last years accompanied by St. John. Continue to a regional rug production center to have a firsthand experience of this unique art form.

Meals: Breakfast / Dinner

After breakfast drive to Bodrum to visit the castle of St.Peter and the
renowned Underwater Museum that was awarded the best Underwater Museum of the World in 2000s. 

Meals: Breakfast / Dinner

After breakfast, the day is free for personal activities. Optional day island Kos. Overnight in Bodrum.

Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast, drive through lush valleys to Pamukkale, the
Cotton Fortress, with white lime cascades formed by hot mineral springs. Visit ruins of the Roman health spa of Hierapolis and enjoy a swim in your hotel’s thermal pool.

Meals: Breakfast / Dinner

After breakfast depart for Antalya

Meals: Breakfast / Dinner

|This morning visit Perge and Aspendos afternoon is free
for personal activities.

Meals: Breakfast / Dinner

Early morning departure to Cappadocia on the way visit 13th
century Caravansaray and later visit underground city of Saratli.

Meals: Breakfast / Dinner

Early Morning Optional: Hot Air Balloon Tour. Experience floating through volcanic valleys, fairy chimneys and caves at sunrise. After break-fast visit Goreme, a historical region of Turkey, located among the rock formations, which were first settled back in the Roman
period. Many rock churches can still be seen today, as Christianity was then the prevailing religion in that region. Continue to the town of Avanos renowned for its high quality earthenware. Also visit
Pasabagi, Red Valley and attend a brief regional pottery workshop. Dinner at a special local restaurant. Join an optional Whirling Dervishes performance.

Meals: Breakfast / Dinner

Early morning departure to the capital city of Ankara through the
salt lake area, Enjoy an afternoon tour Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, a historic caravanserai, holding artifacts from up to 7500 years old, including the most extensive and valuable collection of Hittite artifacts in the world. Dinner at a special local restaurant and overnight at Ankara.

Meals: Breakfast / Dinner

After breakfast depart for Istanbul. In the afternoon, join an optional
halfday Bosphorus cruise enjoying the strait that separates Asia and Europe. Its shores are lined with fine neighborhoods, Ottoman palaces, fortresses, old wooden villas, hotels, parks and gardens, restaurants and cafés. Finish your last minute shopping at the Spice Market filled with the fragrance of the exotic east. Tonight enjoy a farewell dinner.

Meals: Breakfast / Dinner

Transfer to the airport for your return flight home.

Meals: Breakfast