Upon arrival in Istanbul you will be met by our representative at the airport holding a name sign with your name on it. You will be transferred to your hotel by private van.

After checking in to your hotel free day to enjoy Istanbul on your own.

Overnight in your Istanbul hotel.

*One of our office staff will meet you on your first day in order to explain your tour details and deliver your documents, you can make balance payment to our staff.

Your tour guide will meet you at your hotel lobby or cruise port and start your Istanbul Old City Tour;

Highlights of Topkapi Palace Museum (Topkapi Sarayi),
Byzantine Hippodrome / Sultanahmet Square,
Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya, Santa Sofia),
Blue Mosque,
Grand Bazaar (Kapalicarsi).

After completing your private Istanbul tour here, your private guide will accompany you on the way back to your hotel.

*If one of the mosques is not visited, Basilica Cistern will be visited as a replacement.

Your tour guide will meet you at your hotel lobby or cruise port and start your Istanbul Bosphorus Region Tour;

Spice Market,

Bosphorus Cruise: Cruise tour is operated with public ferry to see both Istanbul’s European and Asian side. On the way you'll see Galata Tower, Dolmabahce Palace, Beylerbeyi Palace, Rumeli Fortress, old Ottoman villas, Bosphorus Bridge, and mosques. Your best Istanbul tour memories will be in Bosphorus.

*Please advise if you prefer Private Yacht option for Bosphorus Cruise.

Dolmabahce Palace,
Taksim Square,
Cicek Passage,
Istiklal Street (Istiklal Caddesi).

After completing your private Istanbul tour here, your private guide will accompany you on the way back to your hotel.

Your tour guide will meet you at your hotel lobby or cruise port and start your Istanbul Golden Horn Tour.

Suleymaniye Mosque,
Fener District,
Balat District,
St. Stephen Church,

Pierre Lotti Hill & Cable Car: It offers great view of Golden Horn for visitors. Take cable car to reach the top and enjoy beautiful scenery while drinking Turkish coffee or tea.

Chora Church (Kariye Mosque).

After the tour, you will be transferred to Istanbul Airport for a flight to Denizli.

Upon arrival in Denizli, you will be met by our representative at the airport holding a name sign with your name on it. You will be transferred to your Denizli hotel with a private van.

Overnight in your Denizli hotel.

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 09:00 am for the Pamukkale tour to enjoy the natural calcium pools created by thermal water.

You will be accompanied by a local tour guide and informed about the following sites of visit in advance.

During the tour you will visit;

Calcium Pools,
Necropolis,
Roman Baths,
Domitian Gate,
Latrina,
Frontinus Street,
Agora,
Byzantium Gate,
Triton Fountain,
Cathedral,
Apollon Temple,
Plutonium (explanation will be made from outside due to ongoing excavations),
Theater,
Cleopatra Antique Pool,
Hierapolis.

*As you will have free time to swim in the Cleopatra Pool, please take your swimsuit with you.

After the tour, your driver and tour guide will drop you off at your Kusadasi hotel.

Overnight in your Kusadasi hotel.

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 09:00 am for a tour in Pergamon and Asklepion to discover the ancient cities and legends.

This tour includes visits to:

Pergamon Ancient City,
Altar of Zeus,
Acropolis,
Asklepion.

After the tour, you will be transferred to your Kusadasi hotel with a private van.

Overnight in your Kusadasi hotel.

You will be picked up from your Kusadasi hotel for an Ephesus tour with your guide who will inform you about the history of Ephesus before discovering the ancient city.

During the tour you will visit;

Temple of Artemis,
Great Theater,
Celsius Library,
Temple of Hadrian in Ephesus,
Harbor Street of Ancient City,
House of Virgin Mary,
Isa Bey Mosque with the explanations of your private guide.

After the tour, you will be transferred to Izmir Airport for a flight to Kayseri.

Upon arrival, you will be met by our representative at Kayseri airport holding a name sign with your name on it. You will be transferred to your Cappadocia hotel with a private van.

Overnight in your Cappadocia hotel.

In the early morning you will be picked up from your hotel for a Balloon Ride over the valleys of Cappadocia for a duration of 1-hour.

After the balloon flight, you will have a celebration in the valley and a ceremony of flight certificate. After the ceremony, you will be transferred back to your hotel for breakfast.

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 10:00 am for the tour in the North Cappadocia.

This tour includes visits to;

Uchisar Castle,
Goreme Open Air Museum,
Avanos,
Valley of Monks (Pasabag),
Devrent Valley.

After the tour, your driver and tour guide will drop you off at your hotel.

Overnight in your Cappadocia hotel.

Your private tour guide and the driver will meet you at your hotel at 10:00 am for South Cappadocia Tour.

This tour includes visits to;

Kaymakli Underground City,
Rose Valley,
Love Valley,
Pigeon Valley,
Ortahisar Castle,
Mustafapasa – Sinasos with the explanations of your private guide.

After the tour, your driver and tour guide will drop you off at your hotel.

Overnight in your Cappadocia hotel.

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 09:00 am for driving across Turkey’s hinterland, along the ancient Silk Road via Kayseri.

On your route, you will have time to visit the Karatay Caravansarai before arrival in Adiyaman.

Overnight in your Adiyaman Hotel.

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide in the early morning to climb Mt Nemrut to watch the sunrise over the great Mesopotamia.

During the tour you will visit:

Mt Nemrut which stands there as evidence of ancient kings’ ambitions to survive even after their death,
Ataturk Dam straddling the mighty river the Euphrates,
Sanliurfa, the ancient city of prophets such as Abraham and its famous Lake.

After the tour, you will be transferred to your hotel.

Overnight in your Sanliurfa Hotel.
 

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 09:00 am for driving from Sanliurfa to the ongoing archaeological excavations at Gobeklitepe.

This tour includes visits to:

Gobeklitepe,
Diyarbakir,
Ancient City Walls; after the great wall of China, the longest continuous defensive wall in the world.

Overnight in your Diyarbakir Hotel.

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 09:00 am for driving from Diyarbakir to Mardin city which is located on a high hill overlooking the plains of South-Eastern Anatolia.

During the tour you will visit:

Dair-Al-Zafaran (known as Saffron Monastery),
Syrian Orthodox Patriarchy Hasankeyf, situated by the Tigris River,
Tatvan Town.

Overnight in your Tatvan Hotel.

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 09:00 am for driving to Van via Akdamar Island where we will visit:

Armenian Church of the Holy Cross (known as Sourp Khach),
Van City.

Overnight in your Van Hotel.

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 09:00 am for driving to the south.

During the tour you will visit:

Silk Road (Ipek Yolu),
Hosap Castle,
3000-year-old Citadel of Van,
Lake Van.

Overnight in your Van Hotel.
 

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 09:00 am for driving to Dogubayazit.

This tour includes visits to:

Agri City,
Muradiye,
Bendimaahi Falls.
Ishak Pasha Palace,
Mt Ararat.

Overnight in your Kars Hotel.

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 09:00 am for visiting Ani Ruins to spend the morning at the former capital of the great medieval Armenian Kingdom.

You will visit:

Cathedral of Ani,
Citadel of Ani,
Mosque along with an extensive and well preserved defensive wall.

Overnight in your Kars Hotel.

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 09:00 am to follow the Aras river west through the First World War battlefield site of Sarikamis.

During the tour you will visit:

Sarikamis Region,
Aras River,
Cobandede Bridge,
Erzurum City.

Overnight in your Erzurum Hotel.
 

You will be picked up from your hotel with a private van and private tour guide at 09:00 am to drive from Erzurum to Trabzon.

During the transfer, you will visit:

Pontic Alps,
Karasu River,
Askale,
Kopdagi Pass,
Coruh Valley,
Monastery of Sumela; dedicated to the Virgin Mary, this has been a monastic site since the 4th century AD.
Altindere Vadisi National Park.

Overnight in your Trabzon Hotel.

You will be picked up from our hotel and transferred to Trabzon Airport for a flight to Istanbul.

Upon arrival in Istanbul, you will be met by our representative at Istanbul Airport holding a name sign with your name on it.

You will be transferred to your Istanbul hotel with a private van service.

Overnight in your Istanbul hotel.
 

Free day in Istanbul to discover the city on your own.

According to your international flight time, you will be transferred to Istanbul Airport.

This is the end of our service.

We sincerely hope to welcome you as our guest again!

*If you would like to skip your last day in Istanbul we can arrange the flights accordingly and upon arrival in Istanbul city, you can connect with your international flight and depart for your home.

Please advise if you want to revise the program according to your flight schedule.