10-day Highlights of Turkey Tour

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Arrive Istanbul - Airport Transfer
1 stop
1
Istanbul
Welcome to Istanbul. Our driver will meet you at the airport. You will be transferred to your hotel.
Admission ticket free
Day 2
Explore the Old City
5 stops
2
Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque
After breakfast, Our guide will meet you at reception to start the tour. You will visit first Hagia Sophia. It is a Late Antique place of worship in Istanbul, designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles. Built-in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial capital of Constantinople, it was the largest Christian church of the eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) and the Eastern Orthodox Church, except during the Latin Empire from 1204 to 1261, when it became the city's Latin Catholic cathedral. In 1453, after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, it was converted into a mosque. In 1935, the secular Turkish Republic established it as a museum. In 2020, it re-opened as a mosque.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
3
TopkapI Palace
then you head to Topkapi Palace. The Topkapı Palace is a large museum in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans. **Topkapi palace is closed every Tuesday.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
4
Blue Mosque
Depends on the pray time you will visit Blue Mosque which is an Ottoman-era historical imperial mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A functioning mosque also attracts large numbers of tourist visitors. It was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed's tomb, a madrasah, and a hospice.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
5
Hippodrome
Hippodrome of Constantinople is a square in Istanbul, Turkey. Previously, it was a circus that was the sporting and social center of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
6
Grand Bazaar
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over 4,000 shops on a total area of 30,700 m2, attracting between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily. You will have time for shopping in one of the first shopping malls in the world. **Grand Bazaar is closed every Sunday.
1 hour • Admission ticket free
Day 3
Jewels of Istanbul
2 stops
7
Bosphorus Strait
you will take a boat to Bosphorus Strait for about 1 and a half hours. During your tour, you will see more palaces, mentions, and famous restaurants just on the side of Bosphorus.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
8
Misir Carsisi (Spice Market)
The Spice Bazaar is one of the largest bazaars in the city. Located in the Eminönü quarter of the Fatih district, it is the most famous covered shopping complex after the Grand Bazaar. You will have time for shopping in this historical bazaar.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
Day 4
Gallipoli – Full Day Guided Tour
1 stop
9
Gallipoli Peninsula
After breakfast, you say goodbye to Istanbul. One of the most emotionally touching places in Turkey today you visit the WWI Battlefields of Gallipoli. Includes Anzac Cove, Lone Pine, Chunuk Bair, Memorials, and Trenches.
4 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 5
Troy& Pergamon – Full Day Guided Tour
2 stops
10
Troy (Truva)
This morning you visit the legendary City of Troy, home of the famed Trojan Horse.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
11
Pergamon Ancient City
After we leave Troy we will drive to Pergamon for 3 and a half hours. The city is centered on a 335-meter-high (1,099 ft) mesa of andesite which formed its acropolis.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
Day 6
Explore Pamukkale (Cotton Castle)
1 stop
12
Pamukkale
After breakfast, you heading to the magnificent White calcium terraces, known as Cotton Castle (Pamukkale) where you also tour the ancient city of Hierapolis. This city was used in Roman times for its therapeutic powers. Today bring your swimsuit with you because you will have time to enjoy the thermal water of Pamukkale.
3 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 7
Explore Ephesus & Fly to Cappadocia
3 stops
13
Ancient City of Ephesus
We start the tour with Ephesus, which was a city in ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of the former Arzawan capital by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists. During the Classical Greek era, it was one of twelve cities that were members of the Ionian League. The city came under the control of the Roman Republic in 129 BC.
2 minutes • Admission ticket included
14
The Temple of Artemis
After Ephesus we proceed to The Temple of Artemis or Artemision, also known as the Temple of Diana, which was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis (associated with Diana, a Roman goddess).
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
15
Meryemana (The Virgin Mary's House)
The House of the Virgin Mary is a Catholic shrine located on Mt. Koressos in the vicinity of Ephesus, 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) from Selçuk in Turkey. After the tour, we will transfer you to the Istanbul Airport and you will take your flight to Cappadocia. Upon your arrival, we will transfer you to your hotel.
45 minutes • Admission ticket included
Day 8
Explore Cappadocia – Full Day Guided Tour
5 stops
16
Devrent Valley
We start to explore Cappadocia with Devrent Valley (also spelled as Dervent Valley) reveals many different rock formations and is only a 10-minute drive from Goreme. The small fairy chimneys in the valley form a lunar landscape, or moonscape, by their strange look. The valley also has many animal-shaped rocks.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free
17
Pasabag
Pasabag or Pasha's Vineyard is situated on the Zelve road between the popular town of Goreme and traditional pottery-making town Avanos. Here you can find spectacular cone topped rock pillars known as Fairy Chimneys standing tall throughout the vineyard, Pasha was a in important officer in Ottoman times when the region was captured. However Pasabag is more commonly known as Monks Valley, it earned its name from the many monk refuges carved into the soft rock cones.
45 minutes • Admission ticket included
18
Avanos
Drive to the city of Avanos. The most famous historical feature of Avanos, which is still relevant and very visible today, is its production of earthenware pottery; it is also the most economic activity in the town. The ceramic trade in this district and its countless pottery factories date right back to the Hittites, and the ceramic clay from the red silt of the Kızılırmak has always been used. It is a popular destination because of its attractive old town with cobbled streets, and views over the river.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
19
Goreme Open-Air Museum
In the afternoon visit another beautiful open air museum at Goreme where the remains of rock-cut churches and Christian settlements date back hundreds of years.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
20
Uchisar
Lastly, before returning to your hotel, visit the natural castles at Uchisar. After the tour, we will be back at our hotel.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
Day 9
Explore Cappadocia – Full Day Guided Tour
4 stops
21
Red Valley
After having breakfast at the hotel, we will again depart for a full-day Cappadocia tour. Depart from your hotel to visit Red valley, and explore the famous rock-cut churches and hike 5 km through the Güllüdere valley.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
22
Çavuşin
Then visit Cavusin village. This village is famous for the houses and churches of Christian clergymen.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
23
Pigeon Valley
After lunch Drive to the pigeon valley.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free
24
Kaymakli Underground City
In the afternoon visit Kaymaklı underground city. Where early Christians lived in fear and faith.
1 minute • Admission ticket included
Day 10
Explore Turkey - Departure from Turkey
4 stops
25
Sultanhani Kervansarayi
Today you travel to Konya following the ancient Silk Road. On the way, you will see Sultanhani Caravansary which is the biggest and the most beautiful caravansary from Selcuk Turks Period.
30 minutes • Admission ticket not included
26
Mevlana Muzesi
Once arrive in Konya you will visit the Mevlana Museum. It is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian Sufi mystic. It was also the dervish lodge (tekke) of the Mevlevi order, better known as the whirling dervishes.
30 minutes • Admission ticket included
27
Karatay Medresesi Museum
After Mevlana Museum you will visit Alaaddin Mosque and Karatay Madrasa which are remained from the Seljuk Period of Anatolia.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
28
Istanbul
Our tour concludes and we say goodbye and transferred to the airport. Fly back to Istanbul.
Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Specialized infant seats are available
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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