Day 1 Istanbul
Upon accession to Istanbul Ataturk Airport, you will be met by our adumbrative and transferred to your hotel. You accept the afternoon and black chargeless to relax and/or analysis out the city. Banquet and brief break in the hotel.
Day 2 Istanbul
We will leave auberge in the morning to appointment the amazing Blue Abbey busy with admirable 17th aeon Iznik tiles. Again airing about the actual Hippodrome breadth agent contest were already held. Abide with the Hagia Sophia / St. Sophia and Museum. An aboriginal Christian church, after adapted to a abbey beneath Ottoman rule, this arresting temple now confined as a building with all the artefacts from the Byzantine era intact, is abnormally acclaimed for its mosaics. After cafeteria in the afternoon, we will appointment the Topkapi Palace and Museum, the abode of the allegorical Ottoman Sultans, now adapted into a museum. It consists of several exhibition halls, such as the Treasury, the ceramics section, Armoury and Holy Relics. We will complete this actual day with a appointment to the Grand Bazaar (Kapalicarsi) and acknowledgment to the auberge for overnight.
Day 3 Istanbul
Today you will accept two options to accept from. If you are activity a little annoyed from all the activities and things to see, we allure you to accompany us for a day of alleviation in the Princess Islands.* If you are activity added adventurous, or accept a specific plan in apperception that was not included in the bout plan, this is the absolute day for it. For those of you who would like to accompany us, we will yield a morning bear ride to Buyukada, the better of the Princess Islands which acclimated to be the summer resort for the affluent non-Muslim community. There will be a bout of the Island by horse fatigued carriages, a admirable patio cafeteria and chargeless time to do shopping, walking about the island (where there is no motor cars traffic). Or, you may just lie down in the sun and relax. A bear ride in the black will yield us aback to the city-limits and drive to our auberge for overnight.
Day 4 Istanbul - Cappadocia
We will yield you to Aroma Market, still in use as one of the world’s better aroma bazaars aback 1665. Next, we will lath the ferries beyond the Bosphorus which will yield us to both European and Asian abandon of the city. This admirable boating will yield you forth the shores of Bosphorus and you will see the Rumeli Fortress from the 15th aeon as able-bodied as the bank summer palaces and different board houses of the area, as able-bodied as the accustomed adorableness of the forests above. The endure stop on the cruise is the fishing apple of Sariyer, abutting to the Black Sea. From there on we will drive you by drillmaster via the world’s alone Intercontinental Bridge to yield you to Camlica Hill on the Asian side. Camlica is the accomplished tip in Istanbul breadth you will adore amazing angle of Istanbul. We will appointment the Beylerbeyi Palace, the summer abode of the aristocratic Ottoman ancestors with aboriginal appliance and arresting gardens. After the tour, you will be transferred for your flight to Kayseri (Cappadocia). Upon arrival, you will be met by an Ayala Travel adumbrative and transferred to your auberge for overnight.
Day 5 Cappadocia
Following breakfast we will leave our auberge and we will alpha off with the Goreme Valley Open Air Building with its camp and absorbing age-old churches and chapels carved into stone. The red bedrock Fairy Chimneys, the Valley of Zelve and Avanos acclaimed for their crafts and ceramics will be our next destination. We will again drive to the absurd underground city-limits of Kaymakli carved and dug in the 7th century. This city-limits was acclimated as a ambush by Christians during Roman persecution. We will acknowledgment aback to our auberge in the black for overnight.
Day 6 Cappadocia
Free day at leisure. You may get advice from your adviser for horse riding, biking through valleys and villages, hot air ballooning or added activities.
Day 7 Konya - Pamukkale
We will leave Cappadocia aboriginal and drive to Konya. En route, we will appointment the 13th aeon Seljuk caravanserai Sultanhan. Upon accession in Konya we will be seeing the acclaimed Mevlana Building and the Theological School of Whirling Dervishes. Following cafeteria we will abide our drive to Pamukkale. Brief in Pamukkale.
Day 8 Pamukkale - Kusadasi
Following breakfast, we will appointment the age-old city-limits of Hierapolis. The charcoal of Hierapolis contains one of the better Necropolis Graveyard of the age-old world. We will see arresting examples of Roman Baths, Basilica and the apple acclaimed calcium cliffs. After lunch, we will appointment the Greco-Roman adjustment which is appreciably able-bodied preserved. This age-old city-limits is committed to the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite. We will abide our drive afterwards to Kusadasi for banquet and overnight.
Day 9 Kusadasi
Following breakfast we will abandon for a abounding day bout of Ephesus. Ephesus is one of the a lot of all-encompassing and complete Greco-Roman cities in the world. It contains one of the Seven Churches or Revelation, as able-bodied as an age-old ample anchorage which had a citizenry of 250,000. Walking through the marble streets, visitors can not advice but brainstorm the amplitude of this already abundant city-limits and its access in the development of architecture, adoration and bread-and-butter systems and arts. It should aswell be mentioned that St. Paul lived and preached in this admiration city. After lunch, in the area, we will appointment the Archaeological Building of Selcuk, the Basilica of St. Jean / St John and the House of Virgin Mary, breadth she is believed to accept spent her endure days. We will yield you aback to Kusadasi for banquet and overnight.
Day 10 Kusadasi - Pergamum - Canakkale
Leaving the Kusadasi area, we will drive to the Asian Pergamum (Bergama) Ruins, the a lot of favoured of the Seven Churches of Revelation. Christianity accomplished the city-limits of Pergamum actual aboriginal and this accurate abbey was accepted for its abstinence during harder times. It was actuality in Pergamum, that the aboriginal Christians were accomplished by Romans. You will see the Acropolis of the Hellenistic City-limits of Pergamum, amid 1,000 anxiety aloft town, as able-bodied as the Altar of Zeus and the Temples of Trojan and Dionysus. Following lunch, we will go on to Asclepion the age-old ablution centre of Asia Minor and the Red Basilica which was committed to Egyptian Gods: Serapes, Isis and Harpocrates. Not far is the city-limits of Troas which will be our next spot. In his additional journey, Paul had a eyes in which he was alleged to Macedonia in which instance he fabricated his casual through this age-old city. After in his third journey, Paul spent a anniversary in Troas admonition and adored Eutychus. We will abide our drive arctic to Canakkale for banquet and overnight.
Day 11 Canakkale - Istanbul
Following breakfast we will leave our auberge and appointment Troy, the allegorical boondocks of the Iliad of Homer. The aboriginal excavations were fabricated by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1971and it was appear that Troy was a absolute abode not just a fabulous legend. You will see the excavations assuming several layers of this acculturation and the recreated Board Horse of Troy. We will abide our adventure arctic to the bear beyond the Dardanelles to appointment Gallipoli Battlefields. We will angle on ANZAC Cove celebration sight, The Lone Pine Australian Memorial, Chunuk Bair New Zealand Memorial and Kabatepe War Museum. We will again drive 4.5 hrs to Istanbul for overnight.
Day 12 Istanbul
We will alteration you aback to the airport for your acknowledgment flight.
