TOUR PROGRAM

 Tour TURKEY

kntr6n08   7days

ISTANBUL(2n) CAPPADOCIA(2n) KUSADASI(2n) PAMUKKALE

By air and land

6nights 7days

TOUR HIGHLIGHTs:  Haghia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, SultanAhmet Blue Mosque, Hippodrome, Grand Covered Bazaar, Cappadocia Red Tour, Cappadocia Yellow Tour, Ephesos, Virgin Mary House, Shirince, Pamukkale

TOUR ITINERARY:

Day1 Istanbul - Arrival Day():   You are welcome to Turkey Istanbul Airport. Meeting with KanulaTour staff and informing general of Istanbul and Turkey during transfer to your accomodating hotel. Starting to discover Istanbul at the afternoon. Overnight in Istanbul at the hotel.

Night activity; (optional), it is Dinner with Turkish folcloric show and belly dancers. There are two options one is on boat cruise at the Bosphorus(KNID12) and the other one as 1001nights(KNID13).

Day2 - Istanbul “historical Istanbul and Grand Bazzar” (B, L):     Having the buffet breakfast at the hotel and after picking up about 08:30 for the tour of the day; join to the full day tour with lunch, english language guided for Historical Old City, Byzantium and Ottoman Relics Tour with Grand Bazzar(KNID3) of Istanbul. End of the tour transfer to the hotel back and free time for your own.

Overnight at the hotel in Istanbul.

Day3 Istanbul – Cappadocia –red tour- (B, L,_):     Early buffet breakfast at the hotel and transfer to the airport to get the domestic flight from Istanbul to Cappadocia. Meeting assisting upon arrival and transfer to the hotel with panoramic tour and discovering incrediable Cappadocia with Devrent Imagination Valley and walk through this lunar landscape, the highest point of the region Uchisar Rock Castle, a panoramic view of Goreme valley and Goreme OpenAir Museum (rock cut churches, frescoes, monastery).     Having lunch in a local restaurant in Avanos and after Pashabaglari Chimneys, the World famous Fairy Chimneys, the village of Amanos, where you will witness a pottery-making demonstration using ancient Hittite techniques.     Return to the hotel and overnight in Cappadocia.

Evening activity (optional), you can joing for ATV safari(extra) to discover beauty of the area and increadible sunset.

Night activity (optional), Dinner with Turkish night, Show folcloric and belly dances..

Day4 – Cappadocia (B,_,_):     Start to the day within an excited adrenalin day, optional Hot Air Balloon ride over Cappadocia Valley of “fairy Chimneys”. Hardly Recommended..

A relax breakfast at the hotel and check out and free time for more discover Cappadocia or visit another side with an optional extra tour and seeing Triple chimneys panorama at Urgup, Trekking activity from sunset point (Kizilcukur) to Cavusin through Red Rose Valley. This valley holds different colors and types of rock formations. The trakking lenght about 4800 mt and taking about 3,5-4 hours, 15 min breaktime  in the middle of the way.

Lunch in a local restaurant. Kaymakli Underground City (see how the people lived in this multi level city complete with stables, kitchens, storage chambers and wine making rooms). Piegion Valley .     Overnight in the hotel in Cappadocia.

Day5 Cappadocia – Kushadasi (B, D):    Early morning transfer to the airport and getting the flight to the West shore of Turkey to Agea sea. Flying from Kayseri To Izmir and transfer to Kushadası the jevel of Agea. Meeting at the airport and transferring to the accomodating hotel. Free day for shopping and discovering the culter of Agean people. Dinner and overnight in Kushadası.

Day6 Kushadasi – Ephesos & Virgin Mary (B, L, D):     After the breakfast, there is a full day tour of history;  with a guided tour of the site of one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of World, the site of Temple of Artemis(one hour) and a the ancient city of Ephesus(about two hours).Feel  the mystical atmosphere of the city and stadium where chariot and horse races were once held.  You will also have the chance to experience some Tukish handicrafts..Visit the pilgrimage point claimed to be the last home of the Virgin Mary mount solmissos (half hours) and your last Visit will be Sirince village (one hour) which is located on the top of a mountain and famous with wines that you can taste. After the visit of Sirince you will turn back to you hotel.  Dinner and overnight in Kushadası.

Day7 – Kushadasi – Pamukkale-cotton castel and hierapolis (B, L):     After the breakfast, there is a full day tour of visitig Pamukkale(cotton castles) and Heirapolis, a beautiful and spectacular natural site near Denizli, unique in the World. Thermal spring waters have carved this fantastic formation of stalactites. Thermal waters have been used since Roman times for their therapeutic Powers. Situated on the plateau are both the thermal center with its motels, thermal pools and ruins of the ancient city of Hierapolis. including magnificently preserved necropolis,  the main steet, gates, the thermal baths, the Greco Roman theatre and the Basilica of St. Philippe. Swim in a theraputic bath of hot spring mineral waters.. Monument on this site includes the ancient thermal baths which have been restored and converted into an archaeological museum. 

After the tour dropp of to the Denizli-Çardak airport for evening flight to Istanbul, to connecting your international flight.

We hope your tour was a memorable one and we look forward to seeing you in the future on another KanulaTour activities. Have a safe trip back home..