Private Guided 10 Day Tour of Turkey

Day 1 - Istanbul - Arrival Day

Meet at the airport Transfer to your hotel. You will be given your room key and the rest of the day is yours to explore Istanbul. Overnight in Istanbul.

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Istanbul

Pick up at 08:30 am from your hotel for a day tour of old Istanbul city.

Visit St. Sophia This ancient basilica, built by Constantine the Great in the 4th century and reconstructed by Justinian in the 6th century, is one of the architectural marvels of all time. Topkapi Palace The great palace of the Ottoman sultans from the 15th to the 19th centuries housing an exquisite collection of crystal, silver, and Chinese porcelain, robes worn by the sultans and their families.

The famous jewels of the Imperial Treasury, miniatures, the Holy Mantle; enshrining relics of the Prophet Mohammed. SULTANAHMET IMPERIAL MOSQUE Across from St. Sophia built in the 16th century by the architect Mehmet, is known as the BLUE MOSQUE because of its magnificent interior decoration of blue Iznik tiles. HIPPODROME Ancient Hippodrome, the scene of chariot races, with the three monuments; the Obelisk of Theodosius, the bronze Serpentine Column and the Column of Constantine.

Lunch break at 13:00pm after the lunch Ada Vegas Travel will then take you to the Grand Covered Bazaar In this labyrinth of streets and passages are more than 4,000 shops with each trade having its own area: the goldsmiths street, the carpet sellers, Turkish arts and crafts, such as handpainted ceramic plates, hand-honed copperware, brassware and trays, water ewers, onyx-ware and meerschaum pipes. After the tour, transfer back to your hotel. Overnight in Istanbul.

Topkapi Palace

Grand Bazaar

On Sundays replace with spice market

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Istanbul - Cappadocia

At 04:00 am transfer to airport and flight to Cappadocia. On arrival transfer to your hotel. You will be picked up approximately 09:30 from your hotel to join our tour. Tour starts with Uchisar Castle, the highest point of Cappadocia. After Uchisar, you visit Goreme Open Air Museum, the Heart of Cappadocia. Goreme Open Air Museum is famous for frescoes dating to the 10th century describing the life of Jesus Christ and monks. The next stop is Cavusin, which is an abandoned village with old cave Greek houses.

After Cavusin you go to the restaurant in Avanos to have lunch. After lunch, you visit a pottery workshop, to see how to make potteries. Then you go Pasabagi where you can see three-headed fairy chimneys. After Pasabagi you visit another workshop to see Cappadocian handwoven carpets and kilims. The next stop is Devrent Valley, which is also called Imagination Valley, where you can see natural rock formations looking like animals.

The last stop is Three Beauties, three beautiful fairy chimneys with their hats, which is the symbol of Cappadocia. T

After tour transfer to hotel and overnight.

Optional Evening Turkish night and dervish show with dinner.

(Breakfast & Lunch included)

Goreme open air museum

Cavusin village

Avanos town

Pasabag valley

Devrent imaginations valley

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Cappadocia - Kusadasi

Optional Early Morning Hot air Balloon Tour to discover Cappadocia from the air.

After breakfast, we begin with a hike along the Red & Rose Valley, one of the most breathtakingly and mysteriously beautiful valleys in the region. The valleys, with their fabulous volcanic rock formations, are in the heart of Cappadocia but well away from the mainstream tourist haunts.

After lunch in a local restaurant we descent towards the center of the earth, with a trip to the Underground City of Kaymakli, one of the largest and deepest of Cappadocia’s many such settlements.

This city is approximately 40m deep and contains all the usual rooms found in an underground city (stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, churches, wineries, etc.) We will end the day with a visit to Pigeon Valley where we will have a spectacular view of dovecotes, old abandoned cave homes and old Greek houses of Uchisar. After tour transfer to airport and flight to Izmir. On arrival transfer to your hotel and overnight.

Kaymakli Underground City

Pigeons valley

Kusadasi Town

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Kusadasi - Pamukkale

At 08:30 we depart for Pamukkale. We will check at the hotel around 12.00 and we have a lunch break until 13.30. Afterward, we shall visit the calcium terraces of Pamukkale (cotton castle) and the ruins of Hierapolis, then walk around this natural phenomenon and have the option of lying in the waters of the natural springs. After Pamukkale tour transfer to hotel and overnight.

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Ephesus Tour - Antalya

After breakfast full day tour to ephesus,house of virgin mary, and temple of Artemis. After tour transfer to ariport and evening flight to Antalya.

(Breakfast & Lunch included)

House of Virgin Mary

Temple of Artemis

Antalya city

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Antalya, Perge and Aspendos tour

After breakfast full-day tour to Perge, Aspendos, and Side

Aspendos Theatre

Side town

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Antalya - Istanbul

Today free day in Antalya in the afternoon transfer to airport and evening flight to Istanbul. On arrival transfer to hotel and overnight.

Istanbul city

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Istanbul

After breakfast depart for Bosphorus Cruise tour. Enjoy a magical Istanbul Bosphorus Boat Cruise and Spice Market Tour starting at 08:30. Enjoy the array of sites you can see from the boat including Spice Bazaar (Egyptian Bazaar).

Bosphorus by Boat a traditional excursion by boat along the waterway separating Europe and Asia

After tour transfer to hotel and overnight

Spice Bazaar

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