TOUR PROGRAM

TOUR ISTANBUL & CAPPADOCIA, (6n7d)

Code : ESLISTC6N01

DURATION : 6 night 7 days

(4n Istanbul, 2n Cappadocia)

TOUR HIGHLIGHT: Haghia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, SultanAhmet Blue Mosque, Hippodrome, Grand Covered Bazaar, Cappadocia Red Tour, Hot Air Balloon over Cappadocia (optional)

ITINERARIES:

Day 1 - Istanbul - Arrival Day  :  You are welcome to Turkey Istanbul Airport. On your arrival meeting with KanulaTour staff and having information as general of Istanbul and Turkey during your transfer to your accomodating hotel. Check in to your hotel and getting rest and free time.

Overnight in Istanbul at your hotel.

Day 2 - Istanbul “City Tour (B)”    : Having the buffet breakfast at the hotel and picking up at 08:30 from your hotel for the tour of Historical Old City Tour of Istanbul Old City, to see Byzantium and Ottoman relics(ESLID3). After the tour transfer to the airport back. End of the tour.

Free time in the evening

Overnight in Istanbul at your hotel.

Day 3 – Istanbul (B) :   Buffet breakfast at the hotel and free day. there are ability to join for extra half day morning tour as Bosphorus Boat Cruise Tour with spice bazzar and Golden Horn(ESLID4). You will picked from the hotel up and return to the hotel back at the end of the tour at afternoon time.

free afternoon discover the City Istanbul and planty of shopping.Or on accordance of the guest request can prepare for them Istanbul Vialand Entertainment, Fun and Shopping Tour: Pick up at 10:00am from your hotel and depart for the day full of joy. Vialand is the new entertainment center of Istanbul similar to Disneyland. It has lots of shops, game centers, pools and entertainment centers. Enjoy an adrenaline kick, a shopping fix and a non-stop entertainment with an action-packed day out at Vialand theme park. The Park, includes different parts like, theme park, vialand shopping center, performance and demonstration center, legend world, game world, adventure world, vialand castle, vikings, 360, roller coaster, crazy river, safari tunnel, dungeon and vialand express. Also Vialand has the biggest Food Court with its lots of restaurants, local and international.

Recommended activity at the night, it is Dinner with Turkish folcloric show and belly dancers. There are two options one is on boat cruise at the Bosphorus(ESLID12) and the other one as 1001nights(ESLID13).

Overnight in Istanbul at the hotel.

Day 4 – Istanbul (B)   :  Buffet breakfast at the hotel and free day for discover the City Istanbul and planty of shopping. There are two recommended optional extra tours; full day Prince’s Island Tour(ESLID10): Cruising in the Marmara Sea to Prince’s Island by boat. Büyükada, the popular summer resort with pinewood scenery and wooden mansions, once the pleasure island of Byzantine Princes.

Or you can discover more history with directing our guides for Miniaturk, Panorama 1453, Eyyup Sultan Mosque, Suleymaniye Mosque and Fatih Mosque. Afternoon is free time also and can offer an optional Shopping Tour (after cruise) Experience the traditional silk weaving skills of Turkish women at the carpet weaving courses provided by The Ministry of National Education. You will get the opportunity to see jewellery, handcrafts centre and a modern leatherwear show. Enjoy the experience of shopping whilst gaining the knowledge of the ancient craftsmen.

Overnight in Istanbul at the hotel.

Day 5 – 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 upon arrival and transfer to the hotel with panoramic tour and discovering incrediable Cappadocia.

After having a short rest, you can joing for extra evening tour to discover the beauty of the area and see the increadible sun set, as ATV safari sun set tour.

Night activity is also there is Turkish night and belly dancers as optional in the evening.

Dinner and overnight in Cappadocia.

Day 6 – Cappadocia (B, L, D)   :  Start to the day within an excited adrenalin day, optional Hot Air Balloon ride over Cappadocia(ESLAD5) Valley of “fairy Chimneys”. Hardly Recommended..

After the breakfast you are discovering incrediable Cappadocia as the North Cappadocia Tour(ESLAD6) 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.

End of the tour, return to the hotel and free time.

Dinner and overnight in Cappadocia.

Day 7 – Cappadocia – Istanbul (B,)   :  A relax breakfast at the hotel and check out about noon time and free time before living to the airport. You can see more in the area of Cappadocia or visit another side with an optional extra tour and seeing as Yellow Tour (ESLAD8) with enjoy 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 .

End of the tour transfering to the airport for your flight back to Istanbul to catch your International flight back to your country.

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..