TOUR PROGRAM

Tour TURKEY

ISTANBUL, CAPPADOCIA, ANTALYA,PAMUKKALE(Cotton Castle)

Code : KNTR9n03

DURATION : 09night10days

TOUR HIGHLIGHT: Bosphorus Boat Cruise, SpiceBazaar, Pamukkale and Hierepolis, Goreme open air museum, Kaymaklı underground City,

ITINERARIES:

Day 1 - Istanbul – Arrival Day :You are welcome toTurkey Istanbul Airport. Meeting with Kanula Tour staff and informed as general of Istanbul and Turkey during transfer and panoramic city tour on they our accomodating hotel. Check in to your hotel and free time.

Overnight in Istanbul..

Day2 - Istanbul “City Tour (B )   :  Having the buffet breakfast at the hotel and free day for discover Istanbul.

There is ability to join to an optional tour full day tour with lunch, as Historical Old City Tour(ESLID3) of Istanbul. Picking up at 08:30 from your hotel for the tour of Old City, to see Byzantium and Ottoman relics. After the tour transfer to the hotel back. End of the tour.

Free time in the evening

Overnight in Istanbul at your hotel.

Day 3 –“Istanbul Bosphorus Cruise and Historical” (B) :Having the buffet breakfast at the hotel and picking up at 08:30am from the hotel and depart for the full day activity Istanbul Bosphorus Cruise and two continents.(ESLID4) 1st, visiting the Spice Bazzar which known as Egyptian Bazaar also. And than taking the boat for magical Bosphorus, a traditional excursion by boat along the water way separating Europe and Asia.

Afternoon also can join to another optional tour(ESLID6) Dolmabahçe Palace, recent residence for Ottoman Sultans built by two Ottoman architects Karabet and Nikogos Balyan on a 110,00m²area and served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire. Famous with great collection of Europeanan tiquity, furniture and 4.5tons chandelier, the palace has 285 rooms and 46 halls. Bosphorus Bridge, Unique chance to step from one continent (Europe) to another (Asia) in 2 minutes.Çamlıca Hill, famous for its beautiful sunset and the widest bird’seye panoromicview of Istanbul from Marmara Sea to the Black Sea, gives a chancetoseethe Bosphorus and Golden Horn from one of the highest and most appealing of the city.

Overnight in Istanbul at your hotel.

Day4 – Istanbul – Cappadocia (B, D) : Early buffet breakfast at the hotel and transfer to the airport to get the domestic flight from Istanbul to Cappadocia. Meeting assisting up on arrival and transfer tothe hotel with  panoramic tour and discovering incrediable Cappadocia. Arrive and check-in the accomodating semi-cave hotel and having a short rest. Free day.

Afternoon and evening recommended optional atractions as ATV safari to discover beauty of the area and increadible sunset. And/orthere is Turkishnightshow as optional in theevening.

Dinner and overnight in Cappadocia at your hotel.

Day5 – Cappadocia, (B, L, D) : In early morning,you can opt for Hot Air Balloon flying experience in Cappadocia(Optional – At extra cost).The highly experienced pilots will take you for a memorable flight through and over the valleys in a similar manner to the flight.

Today morning, enjoy breakfast at the hotel and depart from the hotel for tour North Cappadocia and visiting Goreme Open Air Museum & Kaymakli Underground City Tour. Firstly, we will drive to Kaymakli Underground City where early Christians lived in fear and faith.Lunch at restaurant.After having lunch, we will proceed to Goreme Open Air Museum where this religious education was started. You will visit the churches, chapels and monasteries carved into the fairy chimneys from the 10th to the 13th centuries with frescos painted on the walls. After the tour, you will be transferred back to your hotel.

Dinner at your hotel and later on getting the couch-bus trough Antlaya. Overnight on the bus.

Day 6 – Cappadocia – Antalya (D) :Early morning arrive to Antalya couch station and picking up by Kanula tour reps, transferring to the accomodating hotel. Free day in Antalya, dicover the city and Old Harbour,

Dinner and overnight in Antalya at your hotel.

Day 7 – Antalya (B, D) :Exploring and sightseeing Antalya, free day, düden waterfals, karpuzkaldıran waterfall, orjoin for a optional day tour to discover ancient Antalya(ESLAD32) as Discover Perge, Aspendos and Side on a dayt rip. Depart in the morning an dvisit Perge, the place where most of the statues that are on display in Antalya Museum were unearthed. An important city of ancient Parnphylia, originally settled by the Hittites around 1500 BC. St. Paul visited Perge on his first missionary journey. The theater stage has finely carved marble reliefs, and other carvings from around the city are displayed in the stadium. Amateur archaeologists will want to see the handsome city gate flanked by two lofty towers, a long colonn aded road once paved with mosaics and lined with shops, a large agora, the public bath sand a gymnasium. Perge was one of the Pamphylian cities and was believed to have been built in the 12th to 13th centuries BC. Most of there mains of the city that can be seen date from the Roman era. From the two towers, which have become the symbol of Perge, starts the colonnaded street that ends in the nympheum beneath of the acropolis. The theatre is the main feature of Aspendos, attracting visitors who come here tosee the most magnificent example of such architecture stil remaining in Turkey. That the theatre remained so well-preserved till this day, is duetothefact of the thought-out construction method of thearchitect Zenounder the rule of emperor Marcus Aurelius (in 161-180 A.D.) and also to the lateByzantines and Seljuks, whousedthetheatreandkept in goodcondition. Thus the theatre of Aspendos formsstill in the 21st century an unforgettable frame for concerts and festivals The furthest city Side in thee as this torical Pamphylia, situated on a peninsularabout 1000m longand 400 m wide, it fulfilleditsduty as a commercial port. Naturally, Side usedto be one of themostimportanttradecentre in antiquityandnowit’sone of themost popular holidayresorts in SouthernTurkey. Themerchantstookupthelocallanguage, the name Side meanspomegranate, the fruit symbolising abundance and fertility. Duringour time we will visit the Old Colonnaded Streets, Monuments of Fountains, Agora, DyanisosTemple. The most important ruin sare the Roman style amphitheatre and theTemple of Apollowithitshugecolumns.

Dinner and Accomodation at the hotel in Antalya

Day 8 – Antalya (B, D) :Exploring and sightseeing Antalya, lunch in a local restaurant and free time.

Dinner and accomodation in Antalya.

Day9 – Antalya – Pamukkale (B, D) :Exploring and sightseeing Antalya, free day, old city harbour, take a daily cruise, orvisit düden waterfals, karpuzkaldıran waterfall or shopping..check-out from the hotel in the evening and transfer to the couch station to get the bus rideto Denizli/Pamukkale.

Meeting by Kanula Tour staff in Pamukkale and transfering to theThermal Spa hotel.

Dinner and Accomodation at the hotel in Pamukkle

Day10 –Pamukkale - Istanbul (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 and an UNESCO haritage site. 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. End of thetourtransfer to Denizli AirportforreturnflighttoIstanbul.

Gettingthe International flightback.

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