05:00. Transfer to the airport for your flight to Kayseri airport then transfer to Cappadocia (about a 1-hour drive). Cappadocia is an extraordinary national treasure and it may be even the jewel in Turkey’s illustrious crown. Turkey’s most visually striking region, where erosion has formed caves, clefts, pinnacles, fairy chimneys, and sensuous folds in the soft volcanic rock.
09:30. The tour starts by visiting Esentepe, a hillside with spectacular views over the Göreme Valley. taking photos of the magnificent, lava-formed landscapes as a taster of what’s to come, and then we set off with the guide to explore properly. To visit Pasabag (Monk’s Valley), whose chimneys are widely regarded as the best in Cappadocia, to see a chapel dedicated to the well-known reclusive monk, St. Simeon as well as some small cave habitations that were carved and used by monks one thousand years ago. and ogle the Devrent Valley, where more mushroom-shaped pinnacles cover the hillsides.
We drive to the pottery town of Avanos, where the longest river Kizil Irmak (Red River) in Turkey passes through. You will have the chance to view the pottery making demonstration and even try your hand at making your own unique pot. Then a break time for a buffet lunch at a local restaurant before visiting the UNESCO-listed Goreme Open-Air Museum, famous for its rock-cut chapels coated in Byzantine frescoes. You will admire the beautifully painted chapels. Marvel at the numerous cave churches and monasteries with their richly frescoed walls painted by Orthodox Monks around 1000-1200 AD.
Then visit of the Uchisar Castle. Situated at the highest point and providing superb panoramic vistas, it is a large rock formation full of interconnected rooms, tunnels, and passages that have been carved from the tufa. Scattered throughout the immediate surroundings are several Roman tombs also cut from the tufa. Board back to your coach and end your experience with a hotel drop-off. Spend the evening at leisure amid Cappadocia’s magical landscape. Overnight Cappadocia. (B, L)
OR don’t miss the “Optional Whirling Dervish Ceremony & Traditional Turkish Folklore Evening”
19:30. A great night out where dinner, unlimited drinks, and entertainment are included in the price, which takes place in a cave restaurant, which is carved into the region’s soft volcanic rock. The show features belly dancers, traditional folk dancers, and traditional Turkish musicians.
Before drinks are served, Mevlevi Dervishes perform the whirling sema ceremony with a Sufi music concert. In 2005, UNESCO proclaimed the ‘The Mevlevi Sema Ceremony’ of Turkey as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The dervish music and whirling event last about 15 minutes. These shows not only introduce you to Turkish culture and various Anatolian dances but provide you with a genuinely entertaining show.
Optional Hot Air Ballooning: (Option of taking a hot-air balloon ride (in the morning), in a region famed for being one of the best places in the world for ballooning).
05:30. The day will start with a balloon ride over the moonscapes of Cappadocia. Discover the stunning landscape of the region from a hot-air balloon! Admire Cappadocia’s beautiful scenery of tall, volcanic rock spires and high plateaus from the air on a 1-hour flight.
Toast to your unforgettable experience with a glass of Champagne during the post-flight celebration and receive a souvenir medal. Your Cappadocia hot-air balloon flight includes a complimentary pre-flight buffet breakfast and convenient round-trip hotel transportation.
If you don’t take the Balloon ride, the day will proceed as follows:
09:30. Tour begins with a visit to the remarkable underground city of Kaymakli, which was occupied during the period of early Christianity so the local population hid underground for protection. When the Arabs invaded Asia Minor in the 7th and 8th centuries, Cappadocia remained relatively undisturbed by the conflicts; maybe because the monks and local Christians went underground, literally, excavating the subterranean cities and richly frescoed cave churches which you can explore today. Kaymakli is one of many such complexes that have been discovered in the region. Wind through the tunnels and chambers as you descend several levels underground.
Then we will visit Cavusin, an old Christian village, where you can see a triple apse church and the Monastery of St. John the Baptist. The day touring includes lunch and an easy grade, three-kilometer hike through the Red Gulludere Valley, inaccessible by automobile and providing breathtaking scenery. Walk among the fantastic rock formations and along the way discover hidden frescoed cave churches and, before the tour ends, we will visit the natural landmark of Ortahisar Castle.
18:00. İn the evening, transfer to the airport for a flight to Izmir. then upon arrival transfer to your hotel located in the seaside town of Kusadasi (approx. 1-hour drive south along the Aegean coast). Overnight Kusadasi. (B, L)
09:00. Start our tour, we explore the legendary Ephesus open-air museum, positively the best-preserved classical city in the eastern Mediterranean. Under the Romans, Ephesus was a vast city with a population nearing 250,000, reveling in prosperity from commerce. We have plenty of time to visit the marble ruins of Ephesus, the famous Library of Celsus, the gymnasium of Vedius, the Stadium, and the Great Theatre. We’ll see ancient public toilets, a brothel, fountains, and various temples.
You will also have the chance to visit the pilgrimage point claimed to be the last home of the Virgin Mary before driving to the nearby Ottoman-Greek village of Sirince, trying some of their specialty fruit wines, and take a break to enjoy a delicious lunch of Turkish cuisine at a local restaurant. The road to the village passes through vineyards, orchards, and olive groves sometimes referred to as the Tuscany of Turkey. Get your cameras ready as you stroll with your guide up and down the narrow cobblestone lanes between buildings of stone, wood, and plaster. The fragrance of burning wood or the local orchards in bloom will captivate your senses.
Then the Temple of Artemis, also known as the Temple of Diana. Built around 550 BC, it is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. and while listening to the history of the temple, you can see the restored column that marks this site. The temple was rebuilt three times before its destruction in 401 AD. It was discovered during excavations that were undertaken by the British Museum, in 1869-1874 under the supervision of J.T. Wood and David G. Hogarth in1904-1905. Many of the ruins are displayed at the museum in England.
To end the tour, visit of Isa bey Mosque, a wonderful example of Seljukian architecture, located just beneath the citadel in Selcuk near the Basilica of Saint John. Its interior is carved and decorated beautifully, a masterpiece of its time. Overnight Kusadasi. (L)
During your free time in the open-air museum, opt to visit the amazing tile murals and artwork of the Terrace Houses. Excavated from the 1960s to the 1980s, the structure is a city block of 1st-century AD (Roman) private residences, comparable to a condominium and occupying about 4,000 square meters (about an acre). In many regards, the remains are on a par with the famous ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy – making them one of the world’s key sites to experience and admire the sophistication, luxury, and aesthetic refinement of upper-class Roman domestic life. Surprisingly, only about one in twenty visitors to Ephesus explores this unique structure.
“Entrance to the Terrace Houses is not accompanied by a guide and requires (an additional entrance fee paid on the spot)”.
08:00. Driving east, we arrive in Pamukkale“Cotton Castle”, home of the famous gleaming white calcium terraced pools, they are a natural phenomenon and gift of Mother Nature. Pamukkale formed when warm, calcium-rich mineral water cascaded down and as it cooled, settled on the edge of the cliff. The calcium built natural shelves and pools on the cliffs, known as travertines. Today, many of the pools are closed to tourists. However, areas of the travertines can be walked upon, albeit in bare feet.
Or opt to enjoy a unique and very pleasant dip in the warm waters at the Pamukkale Thermal, with its submerged fragments of fluted marble columns near the center of the ruined spa town of Hierapolis, which was a cure center founded around 190 BC by the Romans who were aware of the curative powers of mineral springs, so they created communal baths
18:00. By the evening, transfer to the airport for the return flight to the exotic and vibrant Istanbul. Overnight Istanbul. (B, L).
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05:00. Transfer to the airport for your flight to Kayseri airport then transfer to Cappadocia (about a 1-hour drive). Cappadocia is an extraordinary national treasure and it may be even the jewel in Turkey’s illustrious crown. Turkey’s most visually striking region, where erosion has formed caves, clefts, pinnacles, fairy chimneys, and sensuous folds in the soft volcanic rock.
09:30. The tour starts by visiting Esentepe, a hillside with spectacular views over the Göreme Valley. taking photos of the magnificent, lava-formed landscapes as a taster of what’s to come, and then we set off with the guide to explore properly. To visit Pasabag (Monk’s Valley), whose chimneys are widely regarded as the best in Cappadocia, to see a chapel dedicated to the well-known reclusive monk, St. Simeon as well as some small cave habitations that were carved and used by monks one thousand years ago. and ogle the Devrent Valley, where more mushroom-shaped pinnacles cover the hillsides.
We drive to the pottery town of Avanos, where the longest river Kizil Irmak (Red River) in Turkey passes through. You will have the chance to view the pottery making demonstration and even try your hand at making your own unique pot. Then a break time for a buffet lunch at a local restaurant before visiting the UNESCO-listed Goreme Open-Air Museum, famous for its rock-cut chapels coated in Byzantine frescoes. You will admire the beautifully painted chapels. Marvel at the numerous cave churches and monasteries with their richly frescoed walls painted by Orthodox Monks around 1000-1200 AD.
Then visit of the Uchisar Castle. Situated at the highest point and providing superb panoramic vistas, it is a large rock formation full of interconnected rooms, tunnels, and passages that have been carved from the tufa. Scattered throughout the immediate surroundings are several Roman tombs also cut from the tufa. Board back to your coach and end your experience with a hotel drop-off. Spend the evening at leisure amid Cappadocia’s magical landscape. Overnight Cappadocia. (B, L)
OR don’t miss the “Optional Whirling Dervish Ceremony & Traditional Turkish Folklore Evening”
19:30. A great night out where dinner, unlimited drinks, and entertainment are included in the price, which takes place in a cave restaurant, which is carved into the region’s soft volcanic rock. The show features belly dancers, traditional folk dancers, and traditional Turkish musicians.
Before drinks are served, Mevlevi Dervishes perform the whirling sema ceremony with a Sufi music concert. In 2005, UNESCO proclaimed the ‘The Mevlevi Sema Ceremony’ of Turkey as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The dervish music and whirling event last about 15 minutes. These shows not only introduce you to Turkish culture and various Anatolian dances but provide you with a genuinely entertaining show.
Optional Hot Air Ballooning: (Option of taking a hot-air balloon ride (in the morning), in a region famed for being one of the best places in the world for ballooning).
05:30. The day will start with a balloon ride over the moonscapes of Cappadocia. Discover the stunning landscape of the region from a hot-air balloon! Admire Cappadocia’s beautiful scenery of tall, volcanic rock spires and high plateaus from the air on a 1-hour flight.
Toast to your unforgettable experience with a glass of Champagne during the post-flight celebration and receive a souvenir medal. Your Cappadocia hot-air balloon flight includes a complimentary pre-flight buffet breakfast and convenient round-trip hotel transportation.
If you don’t take the Balloon ride, the day will proceed as follows:
09:30. Tour begins with a visit to the remarkable underground city of Kaymakli, which was occupied during the period of early Christianity so the local population hid underground for protection. When the Arabs invaded Asia Minor in the 7th and 8th centuries, Cappadocia remained relatively undisturbed by the conflicts; maybe because the monks and local Christians went underground, literally, excavating the subterranean cities and richly frescoed cave churches which you can explore today. Kaymakli is one of many such complexes that have been discovered in the region. Wind through the tunnels and chambers as you descend several levels underground.
Then we will visit Cavusin, an old Christian village, where you can see a triple apse church and the Monastery of St. John the Baptist. The day touring includes lunch and an easy grade, three-kilometer hike through the Red Gulludere Valley, inaccessible by automobile and providing breathtaking scenery. Walk among the fantastic rock formations and along the way discover hidden frescoed cave churches and, before the tour ends, we will visit the natural landmark of Ortahisar Castle.
18:00. İn the evening, transfer to the airport for a flight to Izmir. then upon arrival transfer to your hotel located in the seaside town of Kusadasi (approx. 1-hour drive south along the Aegean coast). Overnight Kusadasi. (B, L)
09:00. Start our tour, we explore the legendary Ephesus open-air museum, positively the best-preserved classical city in the eastern Mediterranean. Under the Romans, Ephesus was a vast city with a population nearing 250,000, reveling in prosperity from commerce. We have plenty of time to visit the marble ruins of Ephesus, the famous Library of Celsus, the gymnasium of Vedius, the Stadium, and the Great Theatre. We’ll see ancient public toilets, a brothel, fountains, and various temples.
You will also have the chance to visit the pilgrimage point claimed to be the last home of the Virgin Mary before driving to the nearby Ottoman-Greek village of Sirince, trying some of their specialty fruit wines, and take a break to enjoy a delicious lunch of Turkish cuisine at a local restaurant. The road to the village passes through vineyards, orchards, and olive groves sometimes referred to as the Tuscany of Turkey. Get your cameras ready as you stroll with your guide up and down the narrow cobblestone lanes between buildings of stone, wood, and plaster. The fragrance of burning wood or the local orchards in bloom will captivate your senses.
Then the Temple of Artemis, also known as the Temple of Diana. Built around 550 BC, it is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. and while listening to the history of the temple, you can see the restored column that marks this site. The temple was rebuilt three times before its destruction in 401 AD. It was discovered during excavations that were undertaken by the British Museum, in 1869-1874 under the supervision of J.T. Wood and David G. Hogarth in1904-1905. Many of the ruins are displayed at the museum in England.
To end the tour, visit of Isa bey Mosque, a wonderful example of Seljukian architecture, located just beneath the citadel in Selcuk near the Basilica of Saint John. Its interior is carved and decorated beautifully, a masterpiece of its time. Overnight Kusadasi. (L)
During your free time in the open-air museum, opt to visit the amazing tile murals and artwork of the Terrace Houses. Excavated from the 1960s to the 1980s, the structure is a city block of 1st-century AD (Roman) private residences, comparable to a condominium and occupying about 4,000 square meters (about an acre). In many regards, the remains are on a par with the famous ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy – making them one of the world’s key sites to experience and admire the sophistication, luxury, and aesthetic refinement of upper-class Roman domestic life. Surprisingly, only about one in twenty visitors to Ephesus explores this unique structure.
“Entrance to the Terrace Houses is not accompanied by a guide and requires (an additional entrance fee paid on the spot)”.
08:00. Driving east, we arrive in Pamukkale“Cotton Castle”, home of the famous gleaming white calcium terraced pools, they are a natural phenomenon and gift of Mother Nature. Pamukkale formed when warm, calcium-rich mineral water cascaded down and as it cooled, settled on the edge of the cliff. The calcium built natural shelves and pools on the cliffs, known as travertines. Today, many of the pools are closed to tourists. However, areas of the travertines can be walked upon, albeit in bare feet.
Or opt to enjoy a unique and very pleasant dip in the warm waters at the Pamukkale Thermal, with its submerged fragments of fluted marble columns near the center of the ruined spa town of Hierapolis, which was a cure center founded around 190 BC by the Romans who were aware of the curative powers of mineral springs, so they created communal baths
18:00. By the evening, transfer to the airport for the return flight to the exotic and vibrant Istanbul. Overnight Istanbul. (B, L).
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