Day 3

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Kusadasi - Pamukkale: (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

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- After breakfast we will commence with sightseeing, covering the following

- English speaking tour director & LDC coach is provided whole day.

- Leather outlet shopping center & fashion show (Shopping stop), we start our day with an upbeat fashion show showcasing high quality leather

   products made in Turkey.

- Artemis Temple (Admission is not required – walking orientation), one of the ancient wonders of the world.

- Ephesus ancient city (Admission is included – inside visit), one of the world’s most outstanding archaeological sites. Walk in its well-preserved

   marble streets to the Library of Celsius, the Odeon, Grand Theatre, Temple of Hadrian, Roman Bath etc.

- Pamukkale (Cotton Castle) & Hierapolis Ancient City (Admission is included – walking orientation) , visit the extensive ruins of Hierapolis- known

   for its thermal baths and health centre. Thereafter, see “Cotton Castle” or Pamukkale’s magical and unique terraces & castles created by deposits

   of white limestone from thermal springs.

- Cotton textile factory outlet (Shopping stop), you will have a free time to enjoy Turkish made local products.

- Dinner and overnight in Pamukkale.

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Day 4

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Pamukkale - Konya - Cappadoccia: (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

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- After breakfast we will commence with sightseeing, covering the following

- English speaking tour director & LDC coach is provided whole day

- Ancient Caravanserai (Tepesi Delikhan) (Admission is not required – inside visit), it is an 700 years old ancient caravanserai.

- Melvana Celaleddin-i Rumi (Admission is not required – inside visit), which used to be the cloister for Mevlevi Dervishes. Mevlana was a philosopher

   and mystic of Islam, but not a Muslim of the orthodox type. His doctrine advocates unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and

   awareness through love. To him and to his disciples all religions are more or less truth. Looking with the same eye on Muslim, Jew and Christian

   alike, his peaceful and tolerant teaching has appealed to men of all sects and creeds.

- Dinner and overnight in Cappadocia.

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Day 5

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Cappadoccia: (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

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- After breakfast we will commence with sightseeing, covering the following

- English speaking tour director & LDC coach is provided whole day

- Turkey’s handmade crafts through a turkish carpet weaving course (Shopping stop)

- Pigeon Valley (Admission is not required – walking orientation), great photo spot where we will see the valley of Goreme with bird eye view

- Goreme Valley (Admission is not required– walking orientation) fascinating fairy chimneys at Goreme, Cappadocia.

- Uchisar “castle” village (Admission is not required – walking orientation), a fantasy-land of strange and wonderful works of man and nature.

- Esentepe Hill and Fairy Chimneys Valley (Admission is not required – walking orientation), moon landscape of Cappadocia, where you will be able

   to see fairy chimneys valley.

- Avanos Pottery Village (Admission is not required – shopping stop), set on the banks of the Kizilirmak (Red River). Local people made their hand

   made potteries.

- Underground City (Admission is included – inside visit), once a place of refuge for 15000 Christians. Witness the ancient bedrooms, church, meeting

   hall and food storage rooms in this eight-storey city connected by 30km of corridors and passageways.

- Turquoise & Onyx handmade store (Shopping stop), name given by Marco Polo which means color of Turks. We will see handmade onyx and

   turquoise arts. 

- Dinner and overnight in Cappadocia.

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Day 6

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Cappadoccia - Ankara: (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

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- After breakfast we will commence with sightseeing, covering the following

- English speaking tour director & LDC coach is provided whole day

- Salt Lake (Admission is not required – walking oriantation) , called Tatta in antiquity, is a closed-end lake surrunded by plateaus. He sources that feed

  the lake are insufficient, the river Melendiz and River Pecenekozu.

- Ankara – capital of Turkey, it is second largest city of Turkey.

- Ataturk Mausoleum (Admission is not required – walking oriantation), final resting place of founder of modern Turkey.

- Anka Shopping Mall, it is the largest shopping mall center in capital of Turkey

- Dinner and overnight in Ankara

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Day 7

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Ankara - Istanbul: (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

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- After breakfast we will commence with sightseeing, covering the following

- English speaking tour director & LDC coach is provided whole day

- Camlica Hill Admission is not required – walking orientation), it is a place with two hill overlooking the Bosphorous and the Marmara sea, one of the

   most favored promenades in Istanul, and also one of the highest and most charming places in the city.

- Bosphorous Cruise Tour (Admission is included – private charter boat), here, you will be able to soak in the sights and sounds of Turkey’s Asia and

   Europe sector as you cruise through this water channel that is the very beat of life in Istanbul.

- Spice Bazaar (Admission is not requied – shopping stop), no visit to Istanbul is complete without stopping by the atmospheric Spice Bazaar. It is built

   in 1664, as a part of Yeni Camii complex, it is known in Turkish as Mısır Çarşısı and sometimes translated to Egyptian Bazaar.

- Rustem Pasha Mosque (Admission is not required – inside visit), one of the great geniuses of not only the Ottoman history but world history as well,

   Mimar Sinan completed his last work almost five-hundred years ago, and yet the traces he left in Istanbul are still very much alive.

- Dinner and overnight in Istanbul

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Day 8

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Istanbul - Departure: (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

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- After breakfast we will commence with sightseeing, covering the following

- English speaking tour director & LDC coach is provided whole day

- Grand Bazaar (Admission is not requied – shopping stop), which has more than 4000 shops selling local products handicrafts.

- Abu Ayyub al-Ansari Mosque (Admission is not required – inside visit), he was both a friend and standard bearer for the Prophet Muhammed, and

   was martyred during the first Arab siege of Constantinople (674-678). The mosque was erected on the instruction of Fatih Sultan Mehmet II, five

   years after he seized Constantinople for the Ottomans in 1453.

- Pierre Loti Hill with cable car (Admission of Cable car ticket is included – walking orientation), the famous hill entittled with the name of Pierre Loti,

   a famous French writer, is reached on getting to this ridge on which the perfect view of Golden Horn can be watched. The real name of Pierre Loti,

   who lived in Istanbul for long years and was a real Istanbul lover

- Istiklal Street & Taksim Square (Admission is not required – walking orientation), it is the beating heart of the city, the three million people that pass

   it every day, can make it rather challenging to traverse. It serves as a microcosm of Istanbul itself and although chains and fast food joints are

   starting to edge out more old-fashioned shops, there’s still traces of old Istanbul here.

- Transfer to the airport for your flight back home, bringing back wonderful memories and superb souvenirs from your Turkish vacation