Day 1: Accession in Istanbul
Upon accession to Istanbul Ataturk Airport, you will be met by our agents and accompanied during the alteration to your hotel. You accept the afternoon and black chargeless to relax and/or analysis out the city. Dinner and brief break in Istanbul. (D)
Day 2: Istanbul
After breakfast affair bout adviser at auberge antechamber for abounding day bout of Istanbul. We alpha with the Age-old Hippodrome area chariots contest and added antic contest took abode from the 2nd aeon A.D. onwards. Again abide to Sultanahmet Cami, aswell accepted as the Dejected Mosque due to its superb autogenous adornment and the duke fabricated Iznik tiles absorption its dejected colours from the 16th century. We again abide to the Museum of Hagia Sophia, the jewel in Turkey's Byzantine crown. Hagia Sophia dates aback to 6th century; if it was built, its arch was the better in the world. Now it is one of the world's finest examples of Byzantine architecture. We ability the Grand Bazaar (Kapalicarsi) afterwards a abbreviate drive. Here you will be afraid with the array of souvenirs such as rugs, leather, pottery, jewellery, spices you can acquisition or just airing about for the fun. We accept cafeteria at a bounded restaurant confined Turkish Cuisine. Chargeless afternoon at leisure. Brief Istanbul. (B,L)
Day 3: Izmir - Kusadasi - Ephesus - Istanbul
Breakfast at auberge and alteration to Istanbul Airport Internal Terminal for flight to Izmir. Upon accession to Izmir Airport, affair bout adviser at airport and drive to Ephesus. Ephesus, the best preserved of the Greek/Roman cities in Anatolia, will appear animate to you as you analyze the age-old charcoal of this arresting site. You will see the admirable Celsus Library, adequate and reconstructed according to its aboriginal anatomy by the artist Friedmund Hueber in the 1970's. You will aswell see the Grand Theater, the a lot of amazing architecture of Ephesus, congenital during the Hellenistic age to authority 24,000 spectators. It is there that St. Paul preached. Opposite the Temple of Hadrian are the Hill Houses, homes of Ephesus' affluent citizens. The city-limits was aswell the hometown of abundant philosopher Heraclitus. Again abide to the Abode of the Virgin Mary, a Christian altar in the around of Ephesus. Some Christians and Muslims accept that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was taken to this rock abode by Saint John afterward the beheading of Jesus. Roman Catholics accept that she lived there until her acceptance into Heaven; added denominations of Christians admit this atom as her burying place. Afterwards cafeteria appointment the Basilica of St. John and see the charcoal of Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the age-old world, which Alexander the Abundant visited while it was getting complete in 335 B.C. End of bout and afterwards alignment a affair point and time with your adviser chargeless time in Kusadasi. Alteration to Izmir Airport for flight aback to Istanbul. Black accession to Istanbul Airport and alteration aback to your hotel. Brief Istanbul. (B,L,)
Day 4: Istanbul
Free day in Istanbul. You may ask for added activities from our offices in Sultanahmet.
