03/05/2022
OUR 🇹🇷TURKEY GROUP TOUR IS FINALLY HERE!
Dates: November 20 - 28
From $1,788✨
Inclusions:
✅Roundtrip Airfare
✅5 star Hotel Accommodation
✅Full board meals
✅Sightseeing tours as specified in the itinerary
✅Entrances to sites as stated in the itinerary
✅Private Coach with services of an English speaking guide
✅Souvenir bag and Travel Kit
✅Personalized Luggage tag
NOV 20: DEPART MANILA
Departure Manila. Enjoy inflight meals and entertainment.
NOV 21: ISTANBUL – BURSA (L / D )
Upon arrival, drive to BURSA. Bursa, the 4th largest city in Turkey, you will visit ULUCAMI, GRAND MOSQUE, which was built by Sultan Bayezit I from 1396 to 1400. You will also visit KOZA HAN which means SILK MARKET and the covered bazaar nearby. Transfer to hotel dinner and overnight.
NOV 22: BURSA – EPHESUS – KUSADASI ( B / L / D )
After breakfast, departing to EPHESUS, arrive and visit the House of Virgin Mary, where she is believed to have spent her last years. We will watch a lovely leather fashion show. Turkish leather production goes back to the 12th century and leather tanning is one example of the diverse and traditional Turkish handcraft. Lunch at a restaurant. Transfer to hotel for dinner and overnight.
NOV 23: KUSADASI – PAMUKKALE ( B / L / D )
Morning visit EPHESUS, Greco-Roman city very well preserved in Asia Minor, its Roman Theater, the magnificent Library of Celsus (third largest library in the ancient world), the Temple of Hadrian and the Marble Street. After lunch we depart for PAMUKKALE (COTTON CASTLE), visit the extensive ruins of HIERAPOLIS & NECROPOLIS – 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. Dinner and overnight.
NOV 24: PAMUKKALE – KONYA – CAPPADOCIA ( B / L / D )
Departure for Cappadocia and en route visit the magnificent CARAVANSERAI OF SULTANHAN, arrive in Cappadocia. Lunch en route. Dinner and overnight.
NOV 25: CAPPADOCIA ( B / L / D )
Early this morning just before your breakfast, if you are ready for some excitement, you may consider trying out the possible optional Hot Air Balloon experience.
Then after breakfast at the hotel, visit Underground City of KAYMAKLI or OZKANAK , once a place of refuge for 15,000 Christians, witness their ancient bedrooms, church, meeting hall and food storage rooms all within this eight-storey city connected by 30km of corridors and passageways. Next, do not miss this rare opportunity to experience the beauty and work of local hand-made crafts through a Turkish carpet weaving course. Thereafter, make a visit to the fascinating frescoed rock churches and chapels at Goreme Open-Air Museum, to explore the unusual troglodyte dwellings, remains of the early churches comprising of complicated rooms hollowed out of the cones of volcanic ash and decorated with scratched frescoes. Photo-stops will be made at Uchisar “castle” village, a fantasyland of strange and wonderful works of man and nature. Then, proceed to their local Cave House and Avanos Pottery Village, set on the banks of the Kizilimak (Red River). Lunch at a restaurant. After dinner, optional tour of a fascinating Belly Dancing and Folkdance performances in Cave restaurant.
NOV 26: CAPPADOCIA – ANKARA – ISTANBUL ( B / L / D )
Breakfast at a hotel. Early check out and depart to Ankara, the capital of Turkey on the way, visit Salt Lake and arrive in Ankara then visit the Ataturk Mausoleum – the final resting place of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – Father of modern Turkey. Lunch at a local restaurant. Proceed to Istanbul. Upon arrival we take the boat for a BOSPHORUS TOUR. We will navigate the Bosphorus strait that separates Europe and Asia continents. From the boat we can see a wonderful view of the strait with its palaces, forts and summer houses. After the boat tour we will continue to the SPICE MARKET, built in the seventeenth century, with typical products like pashmina, saffron, spices (seasonings), dried fruits, teas, treats, perfumes and more! Dinner at a restaurant and overnight.
NOV 27: ISTANBUL ( B / L / D )
After breakfast we will visit the TOPKAPI PALACE, once the seat of the Ottoman Empire. Today, it is a museum palace with a wide collection of porcelain, antiques, holy relics and other treasures. After lunch, visit BLUE MOSQUE, which boasts a unique feature of 6 minarets. Admire its glorious interiors and distinctive blue tiles. Next, view the only remains of Hippodrome of Constantinople, consisting of 3 monumental columns and a fountain. This is the site where chariot races took place in the past. You will also visit HAGIA SOPHIA MUSEUM, a must-see attraction due to its religious and architectural significance. Visit the famous GRAND BAZAAR which is a covered market of the fifteenth century, consisting of 5000 stores, and is considered one of the first shopping centers in the world. Dinner and then drive to the airport with the destination country of origin.
NOV 28: MANILA
Arrive in Manila from a very memorable and enjoyable trip.
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