YOUR TRIP INCLUDES: Round-trip air from New York (special Add-on Airfares from all US gateways) ALL AIRPORT TAXES & FUEL SURCHARGES! 13 nights accommodations in superior first class hotels: (or similar) Service charges and hotel taxes Breakfasts daily Arrival and departure transfers Touring by modern air-conditioned motorcoach Professional Tour Director throughout Luggage handling in hotels, (1 pc per person) Sightseeing and admissions fees as per itinerary Flight bag & portfolio of all travel document
Not Included: Lunches, Beverages with dinners, Travel Insurance optional (www.206tours.com/insurance), Extended Cancellation Protection Plan @ $199 (www.206tours.com/cancellationprotection), Tips to your guide & driver (€ 7-9 per day). Items of a personal nature.
Sample Day-by-Day Itinerary: Day 1 - Depart USA
Depart from New York's JFK airport on your overnight flights to Turkey.
Day 2 - Istanbul
Arrival and transfer to hotel. Welcome briefing.
Day 3 - Istanbul
Full day tour to include: Topkapi Palace (excluding harem), Hippodrome, Blue Mosque, St. Sophia and the Grand Bazaar. Optional: Dinner with belly dancing entertainment.
Day 4 - Gallipoli – Dardanelles – Canakkale
Morning departure for Gallipoli and visit Anzac Cove , Lone pine cemetery, Chunuk Bair and Gabatepe War Museum then across the Dardanelles to Canakkale for overnight.
Day 5 - Troy - Pergamum – Kusadasi
Visit Troy with its famous wooden horse, tour ancient Medical Center Asclepion in Pergamum and continue on to Kusadasi for overnight.
Day 6 - Ephesus & St. Mary’s House – Kusadasi
Tour the famous ruins of Ephesus and St. Mary’s cottage and visit a regional carpet production center. Afternoon Optional: tour of Sardis or Sirince.
Day 7 - Kusadası – Pamukkale
Drive through fertile valleys to Pamukkale (white lime cascades) visit Hierapolis and enjoy the thermal pools of our hotel.
Day 8 - Pamukkale – Perge-Antalya
Morning drive to Antalya, arrival at mid-noon, pay a visit to the ancient city of Perge. A relaxed afternoon by the Mediterranean coast.
Day 9 - Antalya: Optional Tour of Phaselis or Yacht Cruise
Today is a free day with choices of Optional tours of Phaselis, a coastal ancient city or a lazy yacht cruise along turqouise coast of the Mediterranean.
Day 10 - Antalya –Aspendos- Konya
After breakfast depart for Konya, en route visit the famous theatre in Aspendos. Visit Mevlana Mausoleum and Karatay Koran School, then overnight in Konya. Tonight Optional: Whirling Dervishes performance.
Day 11 - Konya- Cappadocia
Morning departure for Cappadocia, on the way visit 13th century Agzikarahan caravansary the land of Fairy Chimneys. We pay a visit to the famous underground city of Kaymaklı. Before we check into our hotel, we will taste Cappadocian wine in a cave winery. Local dinner in a restaurant and overnight in Cappadocia.
Day 12 - Cappadocia
Early Morning Optional: Balloon Tour. Experience of floating through volcanic valleys, fairy chimneys and caves with the sunrise of Cappadocia. After breakfast, visit Goreme, Avanos, Pasabagi, Red Valley, and have a brief regional pottery workshop in a cave.
Eastern Turkey Itinerary
Day 13 - Cappadocia – Mt. Nemrut
Departure at 8:30am from the Göreme. After passing Kayseri we will stop to visit the 13th century Seljukian caravansarai Karatayhan. The next stop will be in Pınarbaı for a break then drive to Tekir plateau for lunch. After lunch drive to Kahramanmaras. We will stop there and have the worldwide famous ice-cream in a nice cafe. Then drive to Kahta check in the hotel.
Day 14 - S.Urfa & Harran
Departure time to drive up to mountain is at 3 o’clock in the morning. Climbing to the top of the mountain where we will watch the beautiful sunrise between the colossal size statues and bead of the king and gods. After sunrise we will visit the ruins of Mt Nemrut and free time to walk around then drive back to Kahta. Arsemia and a Roman bridge of Cendere and tumulus blackbird (Karakuş) are also included. Arrival to Kahta to have breakfast and relax. Then drive to Şanlıurfa city ,Prophet Abraham’s cave and the pools of holy carp surrounding it then drive to Harran a village of spellbinding mud –brick beehive houses where Abraham spent last years of his life mentioned in the book of Genesis. Overnight in Şanlıurfa city.
Day 15 - S.Urfa & Harran
Transfer to Sanlıurfa or Gaziantep airport.
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