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Guatemala >> >> Escorted
Take a 10 day escorted tour throughout Turkey.
Turkey's Discovery Star
10 Days from
$1,000
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At A Glance
Travel Articles
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At A Glance Travel Articles
Travelers start this eleven day escorted tour of Turkey in Istanbul, the nation's largest metropolitan area and one of the few cities world-wide to span two continents. Three days in Istanbul include a visit to the regal Topkapi Palace, the stunning Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque, and the ruins of the Hippodrome. Then shop exotic merchandise at the immense Grand Bazaar before leaving for Ankara, the Turkish capital that encapsulates the country's ancient and modern history. Continue your Turkey vacation and discover the otherworldly landscape of Cappadocia where the rough earth has yielded clay for artisan pottery, caverns that house underground cities, and ......
Program Highlights
Includes
- Deluxe class hotel accommodation for 9 nights
- 15 included meals consisting of:
- 9 buffet breakfasts
- 6 dinners at hotels
- Touring by private deluxe air-conditioned motorcoach
- Assistance of a professional Tour Director for the entire length of the tour
- Sightseeing, including local guide and all entrance fees as follows:
- Visit of Cappadocia
- Visit of the Sultanhani Caravanserai
- Visit of Konya’s Mevlana Museum
- Tour of Hierapolis and hot springs in Pamukkale
- Visit of Ephesus archaeological site
- Visit of House of the Virgin Mary
- Visit of ancient Pergamum, including entrance fees for the Acropolis and Asklepion
- Visit of Troy archaeological site
- Visit of World War I memorials at Gallipoli
- Arrival and departure airport transfers
- Baggage handling
- Hotel taxes and service charges
Excludes
Small Groups
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Notes
Single supplement (January-March): $493
Single supplement (April-December): $606
Triple reduction (January-March): $20
Triple reduction (April-December): $40
(*) Price is per person based on double occupancy.
Rates for additional nights at first and last city are available.
Departures & Rates
Please click here to request a quotation for your preferred dates of travel, or contact your Travel Agent
Hotels
Welcome to Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport,
here you'll be met and transferred to your hotel. Balance of the day is at
leisure to explore a city that has always been at a crossroads, between
Asia and Europe, between history and modernity, between conservatives
and free-thinkers.
This morning we visit the impressive Topkapi Palace,
the residence of mighty Ottoman Sultans, and Hagia Sophia, once a
church, later a mosque, and now a museum. After time for lunch on your
own, you will be taken to the Blue Mosque. Here, you will be impressed
by the beauty of its six minarets, unique architecture, marble latticework,
and inside, by the high ceiling lined with 20,000 blue tiles that give the
mosque its popular name. Stop by the Hippodrome. Center of the
Byzantine life for 1,000 years, this is where chariot races and competitive
athletic events took place. Your tour ends with a visit of the Grand
Bazaar, the world's biggest and oldest shopping venue. (B)
Today we transfer to the airport for a
short flight to Cappadocia (not included). Transfer to the hotel and rest of
the day is at leisure. Dinner and overnight at hotel. (B,D)
After breakfast we visit Goreme, a UNESCO
World Heritage Site famous for its fairy chimney rock formations. Whittled
down by time and erosion, these figures stand as a testament to the
power of nature. Occupied as far back as the 4th Century, you can still
see dwellings, churches and underground cities that were carved into the
surrounding formations. A tour of Kaymakli Underground City, the widest
underground city of this region, will be followed by a visit of a local pottery
workshop. Dinner and overnight at hotel in Cappadocia. (B,D)
After a visit of the
Sultanhani Caravanserai, we head to Konya, the old capital of the
Anatolian Seljuk Empire and home to the mystic Whirling Dervish sect.
Visit the Mevlana, a museum and national monument. Your day ends in
Pamukkale, the city famous for its dazzling chalk-white array of
fantastically shaped limestone terraces. Dinner and overnight at hotel.
(B,D)
This morning we visit the ruins of
ancient Hierapolis. It is here that you will see the fairyland terraces,
glistening pools and cascades in scallop-shell basins that have made this
area famous worldwide. Continue to Kusadasi. Dinner and overnight at
hotel. (B,D)
This morning we drive to
Ephesus, perhaps the best preserved archeological site on Earth, where
one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - the Temple of Artemis -
is located. We end our tour with a visit of the House where the Virgin Mary
is believed to have lived the final years of her life. Dinner and overnight
at hotel in Kusadasi. (B,D)
Today we drive to
Pergamum, the seat of an ancient kingdom. Visit the Asklepion, one of
the most famous shrines and therapeutic centers in the ancient world,
before driving to Homer's legendary city of Troy, where archeological
excavation has established nine levels of habitation, including the great
city captured in 1200 B.C. by means of the renowned Trojan Horse. A
huge replica of this horse stands beside the city's ancient walls. Continue
to Canakkale. Dinner and overnight at hotel. (B,D)
After crossing the Dardanelles, we visit
the peninsula of Gelibolu, better known in the west as Gallipoli. Here are
the battlefields where for nine disastrous months during the Great War,
Anzac troops fought unsuccessfully to gain control of the strategic
Dardanelle Straits. Visit Anzac Cove and Lone Pine Cemetery. Continue to
Istanbul. (B)
Morning transfer to
airport for your return flight home. (B)
