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QUICK TOUR FOR TURKEY 10 DAYS

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Duration

10 days

Tour Type

Daily Tour

Group Size

10 people

Languages

English, Türkçe

Quick Turkey tour provides you a chance to visit most popular areas of Turkey in 10 days. Tour is including Istanbul, Cappadocia, Konya, Pamukkale, Antalya, Ephesus

Day 1     : Arrival to Istanbul: One of our colleagues will be waiting for you at the arrival hall bearing a sign of Efendi Travel. He/she will accompany you to our vehicle and you will be transferred directly to your hotel. Accommodation in Istanbul.

Day 2:  Istanbul City Tour: You will be picked up from your hotel at around 08:30. You will visit: Hagia Sophia , Blue Mosque, Roman Hippodrome Grand Bazaar After lunch you will see: Topkapi Palace , Sultan Tombs  and the tour ends about 16:30 and back to hotel Accommodation in Istanbul. (breakfast at hotel, lunch on the tour)

Please note that Topkapi Palace is closed on Tuesdays and Grand Bazaar is closed on Sundays. Blue Mosque will not be visited on Fridays.

Day 3 : North Cappadocia Tour: You will be picked up from your hotel at 03:45 to be transferred to Istanbul Airport to take 06:30 flight to Kayseri. Upon your arrival at Kayseri Airport, you will be greeted and transferred to Cappadocia to meet your guide and the rest of the group. You will start the day visiting Devrent Valley, also known as “Imagination Valley”, this is the most surreal-looking landscape. Your next stop will be Pasabagi called also the Monks Valley because Christian hermits chose to locate hermit cells and churches in these three-headed pinnacles symbolic of the Holy Trinity, it’s possible to see all the stages in the formation of fairy chimneys at this spot. Proceed to Avanos (Vanessa) the pottery center of Cappadocia, this village is set on the banks of the Kizilirmak/Red River. The river gets its name from the red clay it deposits. You can watch the potters at work using kick wheels, the technique which has remained unchanged for generations. After lunch, continue to Goreme Open Air Museum. The world’s most important Byzantine cave churches are found in these once remote valleys where monks and nuns pursued monastic life from the 3rd century on. Here you can see the best preserved Byzantine cave wall paintings and frescos from the Iconoclastic period through to the end of Seljuk rule. Icons with scenes from the Old Testament and the New Testament above portraits of Church Fathers and saints depict the structure of the Byzantine universe. Panoramic view point Esentepe. With a spectacular view over Goreme from Esentepe see the complete view of Goreme valley and Goreme village: fairy chimneys, rock formations and cave houses. End your day with Uchisar Castle. This tall rock, the highest point of the Goreme region, is a 25-floor beehive of cave rooms forming an underground-type city reaching into the sky. It was used as a citadel during Roman, Byzantine and Seljuk times. The view of the Cappadocian countryside from here is just brilliant. After the tour, you will be transferred to your hotel. Accommodation in Cappadocia. (lunch on the tour)

Day 4        : Second Day in Cappadocia: You will be picked up from your hotel at around 09:00 for a tour on a 4km hike through the Rose Valley visiting the churches. Afterwards visit the old Christian village of Cavusin. Stop for lunch in Pigeons Valley and then continue on to see the marvel of construction that is the Kaymakli Underground City. You will also visit the Ortahisar Natural Rock Castle. After the tour, you will be dropped off at your hotel at around 17:00. Accommodation in Cappadocia. (breakfast at hotel and lunch on the tour)

Day 5 : Tour to Konya  : Meet the guide and driver at the hotel at 8.30. We set off with our guide and driver westward along the ancient Silk Road toward Konya, stopping for a look at the huge Sultan Han caravanserai en route. After we arrive in Konya, visit the Tomb of Rumi in the Museum of Mevlana, an important place of pilgrimage for Muslims. Then, we visit the Ottoman-era Sultan Selim mosque before having lunch in a traditional Turkish restaurant. After our lunch we drive to the Alaaddin Hill (a prehistoric tumulus) to visit the 1000-year-old Alaaddin Mosque. In its courtyard are the tombs of many of the Seljuk Turkish sultans. Walking down the north side of the Alaaddin Hill we pass the remains of the Seljuk sultan’s palace, then cross the street for a view of the elaborate portal of the InceMinareliMedrese theological college and Accommodation in Konya

 (breakfast at hotel and lunch on the tour)

Day 6    : Transfer from your hotel and then have a bus to Antalya  which takes 5 hours and Accommodation in Antalya.(Breakfast at the hotel)

Day 7    : Pick –up at 08:00 a.m and : The ruins of the city, although not on the scale of Ephesus, Pergamon, are never less vast. Most of today’ s Perge however, belongs to the Pax Romana-the theatre, stadium, baths and colonaded street. The stadium is one of the best preserved of the ancient world.

ASPENDOS: Some 25 miles east of Antalya and 3 miles of the main road lies Aspendos, graced with a theatre that rivals any single edifice on the Turkish coast. Built on the second century and seating 15.000, the structure is nearly entire except for part of the upper cornice. İt is architect was Xenon a local lad, whose secret formula for creating such perfect acoustics has not yet been discovered.

SIDE: (meaning pomegranate)
Is located in region of Pamphylia in Anatolia and was both a prosperous Aegean tranding centre Hellenistic and Roman times and a base for Cilicia pirates in the 1 st and 2 nd centruise BCE.

KURSUNLU WATERFALLS: The Kursunlu Waterfalls is 18 km in distance along the Antalya -Alanya highway, which is a fascinating national park of Antalya. And then have a bus to Pamukkale and then transferred to your hotel and Accomodation in Pamukkale

(breakfast at hotel and lunch on the tour)

Day 8 : Pamukkale Travertines and Hierapolis Ancient City: You will be picked up from your hotel at around 09:15for the tour of Pamukkale, which is the center of natural thermal spring waters with healing properties. Due to the chemical properties in the water, pure white colored travertine and stepped water terraces have been created on the mountain slope. It is for its resemblance to cotton piles that it is called ´Cotton Castle´ in Turkish. Visit the travertines and the ancient city of Hierapolis which has the biggest Necropolis with 1200 gravestones in Anatolia. The sacred pool also is one of the highlights of the site. There shallow thermal waters ripple over a wonderful scattering of ancient roman ruins that lie beneath. You will have some free time in the afternoon. Then you will be transferred back to your hotel. Accommodation in Kusadasi. (breakfast at hotel, lunch on the tour)

Day 9: Ephesus Tour and Flight to Istanbul: (check out from hotel in the morning) You will be picked up from your hotel at around 09:00 for full-day Ephesus Ancient City Tour. Visit the premiere Greco-Roman City of the ancient world, Ephesus. Explore the Temple of Hadrian, Domitian’s temple, Hercules gate, famous Celsus Library, Great theater and other Roman sites. We will also visit House of Virgin Mary where she is believed to have spent her last years. On November 29th, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed the House of the Virgin Mary at Ephesus to be sacred. Give a break to taste delicious, healthy and traditional Turkish food. Take your way to the Temple of Artemis, which is the one of the seven wonders of ancient world. After the tour, you will be transferred to Izmir Airport to take an evening flight to Istanbul and then transfer to your hotel in Istanbul . (breakfast at hotel, lunch on the tour)

Day 10: You will be picked up from your hotel depending on your flight time and transferred to the airport directly for your departure flight home.

Cost is 1650 Euros per person


Tour Price Includes

Accommodation in 3* hotels or similar boutique hotels

Meal services during the tour noted in the itinerary above

Transportation by major flight companies

Professional licensed guiding services

Entrance fees to the museums during guided tours

The local tours may include some shopping facilities if the timing will be available

Tour Price Excludes

Personal expenses

Dinners

Tips (optional)

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