Istanbul – Pamukkale – Ephesus – Cappadocia (7 Days)

After having rest at night, you will be picked up from the reception. The name of today’s tour is the Old City Tour. Our route is: Haghia-Sophia, Blue Mosque, Hippodrome, Grand Bazaar, Topkapi Palace, and Suleymaniye Mosque. At the end of the day, you will be back at the hotel and stay overnight in Istanbul.

In the morning, after having breakfast in your hotel, you will be picked up from the hotel. You must be ready to be fascinated by the beauties that you are going to encounter. We will see the places, Spice Bazaar (Egyptian Bazaar), Bosphorus Cruise, Rumeli Fortress, Dolmabahce Palace, Bosphorus Bridge, and Camlica Hill.

After visiting these unforgettable places, you will be back to your hotel and stay overnight in Istanbul

Are you ready to feel like you are on the top of a cotton castle? For this fascinating tour, we will pick you up from your hotel for a flight to Denizli in the early morning. You will be transferred to Istanbul Airport to fly to Denizli. When we arrive we will drive to Pamukkale meaning ‘’Cotton Castle’’ and it is the most fitting name because the brilliant white calcified terraces truly resemble a castle made of cotton. You will feel like you are in a dream. We will visit Cleopatra's hot spring thermal pool (the fee will be extra), where you will be able to swim and have a relaxing moment in an awesome, unique place. While you are swimming you may think that you are in a pool where once Cleopatra swam thousands of years ago, may feel nature and history together inside yourself.

Our next station is Hierapolis, whose ruins currently comprise an archaeological museum designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is also called a Holy City in Archeological literature because there were many temples and religious buildings in Hierapolis. Hierapolis, which was founded as a thermal spa in the early 2nd century BC, has one of the largest and most diverse necropoleis in the world filled with sarcophagi, including the famous sarcophagus of Marcus Aurelius Ammianos, which bears the earliest known example of a crank and rod mechanism.

At the end of the tour, we will take you to the hotel, and stay overnight in Kusadasi.

After having breakfast at the hotel, we will set off for a full-day Ephesus tour and Virgin Mary’s house. Our first route is the ruins of the Temple of Artemis which was amongst the seven wonders of the ancient world. Then we will get to The Ancient City of Ephesus where you will have a chance to investigate some of the best-preserved theatres, libraries, fountains, and buildings in the world, dating back to very ancient times.

Our next station is the House of the Virgin Mary on the top of the mountain, a place hidden in the green. The house has been noted as a pilgrimage center by Christians, and there is a legend that the Virgin Mary lived her last days on earth in this small stone cottage. When the tour comes to an end, we will transfer you to your hotel.

With the first lights of the day, you will be picked up from your hotel for a flight to Cappadocia. You will be transferred to Izmir Airport to fly to our target destination, Cappadocia. Your flight will last about one hour and there you will meet with your well-informed guide and driver then we will go on a full-day Cappadocia tour starting with Devrent Valley with its eye-catching, unique chimneys, Pasabag (Monk’s Valley), fascinating Avanos, the beauteous valley of Goreme where the remains of churches and early Christian dwellings, hewn from the soft rocks and stones, dating back thousands of years, are still standing. After this stunning and priceless experience, we will return to your hotel. You will stay in Cappadocia for a night.

NOTE: You can add your optional tours (hot air balloon & whirling dervish Show) to this program.

After having breakfast at the hotel, our tour’s second section starts. We will set off again for a full-day Cappadocia tour by seeing the famous and unforgettable rock churches in the Red and Rose Valley where the color of rocks changes throughout the day and little hiking through the Gulludere Valley.