10 NIGHTS EASTERN ANATOLIA

Duration:   11 Days / 10 Nights
Route:   Istanbul - Cappadocia - Adana - Antakya - Adıyaman - Urfa - Istanbul
Departure:  From Istanbul
 

Day 1: Istanbul

Upon Arrival at Istanbul Ataturk Airport or Sabiha Airport, our staff will greet you and take you to hotel in Istanbul.  The rest of the day is yours to explore Istanbul on your own or just relax in your hotel. We can also help to book a dinner show or a dinner on bosphorus cruise if you are interesting.

Day 2: Istanbul

Today a guide will accompany you for a city tour of the main attractions including…

• Byzantine Hippodrome: Sporting and social centre from the Byzantine era
• The Blue Mosque: The most famous and historical mosque in Turkey
• Grand Bazaar: Turkey’s largest covered bazaar with 4000 shops
• Topkapi Palace: Former home for sultans of the Ottoman Empire 
Enjoy dinner at your own leisure. See our list for the recommended restaurants (Breakfast and Lunch included)

Day 3: Istanbul - Cappadocia
In the morning, private car and driver will take you to the airport for a quick, direct flight from Istanbul to Ankara. Tour starts in the morning from the hotel or from the airport. Visit the Hittite Museum and Mausoleum of Atatürk. After lunch drive to Cappadocia, dinner & overnight (Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner included)

Day 4: Cappadocia
Breakfast at the hotel, morning visit to the underground city of Kaymaklı & Citadel of Uçhisar. After lunch continue with the valley of "Göreme" & open air museum. The last sites will be Paşabağ valley and Avanos. Return to hotel for dinner & overnight (Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner included)

Day 5: Cappadocia - Adana
Breakfast and visit to underground city of Kaymaklı or Derinkuyu; excavated for the Christian communuties, with a depth of 12 stories under the ground. Drive to Tarsus, the birth place of Sainth Paul. In the prechristianity period, Tarsus was known as the place where Cleopatra tempted Marc Antonius after his victory in Philip when he ordered to get the Egiptian queen Tolemita to punish her because of her help to Caslo when the engineers of the antic Tarsus opened a passage way in between the Nord Mountains till the cilician doors, they created one of the most historical mountained routes of all the times. Till then the armies and the merchants used this passage way. Persians with their 100.000 people and later on Alexander the Great passed through here. Alexander the Great was almost loosing his life while he was swimming in the freezing waters of the Cyndus River. Arrive to Tarsus and visit to the well of Saint Paul and the Cleopatra Gate. Lunch in Tarsus and drive to Adana. (Breakfast & Lunch included)

Day 6: Adana - Antakya
Breakfast and departure to Antakya, the biblical city called Antochia, situated in the Asi (Orantes) River in the fertile plain sorrounded with the high mountains. This is the city where the word "christian" was used for the first time. Its museum has one of the richest Roman mozaic collection of the world. The major part of the fantastic stone paintings were found during the excavations in Antakya and around Daphne. Outside the city there is the cave of Saint Peter the church which is constructed in cave where the aposteles gave their first preach and where the Christian community settled down. Dinner and overnight. (Breakfast &  Dinner included)

Day 7: Antakya - Adıyaman
Breakfast and departure to Adıyaman, visit the mount Nemrut to see the tumulo of the King Antiochus of commanege the special tomb which is known with its gigantic statues, the heads spread arround and reflecting the charming periods of past.

(Breakfast included)

Day 8: Adıyaman - Urfa
Breakfast and departure to Urfa, the antic city of Probhets, one of them is Abraham. Visit Halil-Rahman Mosque situated together with a special poll where the sacred carps are living. Lunch and drive to Harran visiting the biblical place which has the bases of one of the first universities of the world. Dinner and overnight. (Breakfast & Lunch & Dinner included)

Day 9: Urfa - Istanbul
Breakfast and transfer to the airport for the regular flight to Istanbul. (Breakfast included)

Day 10:  Istanbul
Free time in Istanbul and overnight. (Breakfast)

Day 11:  Return
After breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight home. (Breakfast)

Whats Included

Hotel accommodations

Mentioned meals

Airport transfers in private deluxe A/C vehicle

Domestic flight tickets in economy class

Services of a professional guide

Entrance fees

Pick up/ drop off service

TURSAB Travel insurance

Local taxation and VAT

Whats not included

Extra Beverages on meals

Attractions not listed on the itinerary

All Taxes and VAT included.