Culinary Tour of Gaziantep and Harran's Turkish Cuisine

Upon your arrival to the Adana airport, we will meet you and visit Roman Bridge and Sabancı Mosque. After we will have a dinner at one of the most decent restaurants of the town. Adana is famous with Adana Kebab and very different mezes. After dinner we will check in our hotel and rest.

After breakfast at the hotel we will leave for Gaziantep. First we will visit Antep Castle. Gaziantep Castle is a castle first built by the Hittite Empire as an observation point and later built into a main castle by the Roman Empire on top of a hill. The castle has been renovated numerous times and took its final shape in 2000. Today, the castle is used as the Gaziantep Defence and Heroism Panoramic Museum.

The museum's Hellenistic Greek and Roman mosaics are focused on Zeugma, which is said to have been founded as Seleucia by Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Kingdom after serving as a hetairoi military officer in the army of Alexander the Great.

We will have lunch with the most delicious options of certificated Gaziantep foods.

After lunch we will have walking tour in famous copper bazaar.

After breakfast at hotel we will drive to Şanlıurfa city. Upon arrival we will visit Harran Plain. With its untouched traditional life and characteristic houses.

Holly Lake is our next stop. This lake believed to be the fire that prophet Ibrahim has been thrown in to and fishes in the lake believed to be the woods of th fire.

Abraham is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will visit his birth cave.

Şanlıurfa is famous with its hot spicy cuisine. We will taste best examples of them.

We will see Gobeklitepe, a hilltop sanctuary erected on the highest point of an elongated mountain ridge some 15 km northeast of the town of Urfa. Pools of Holy CarpWhat makes Gobeklitepe unique in its class is the date it was built, which is roughly twelve thousand years ago, circa 10,000 BC.

We will drop you to the Şanlıurfa GAP airport for your flight to Istanbul. Upon your arrival we will transfer you to your hotel in Istanbul. End of our service.