Tour Information
6 Days Package including Ephesus, Pamukkale and Istanbul .Recommended for shoter stay than a week
Day 1: Arrival to Istanbul: One
of our colleagues will be waiting for you at the arrival hall bearing a sign of
Efendi Travel. He/she will accompany you to our vehicle and you will be
transferred directly to your hotel. Accommodation in Istanbul.
Day 2: Istanbul City Tour: You
will be picked up from your hotel at around 08:30. You will visit: Hagia Sophia
, Blue Mosque, Roman Hippodrome Grand Bazaar After lunch you will see: Topkapi
Palace , Hagia Irene and the tour ends about 16:30 and back to hotel
Accommodation in Istanbul. (breakfast at hotel, lunch on the tour)
Please note that Topkapi Palace is closed on Tuesdays and
Grand Bazaar is closed on Sundays. Blue Mosque will not be visited on Fridays.
Day 3: Dolmabahce Palace
Tour & Bosphorus Cruise: (check out from hotel in the morning) You
will be picked up from your hotel at around 08:00-08:30 for Dolmabahce Palace
& Bezmi Alem Mosque Tour. We firstly visit Dolmabahce Palace, recent
residence for Ottoman Sultans. Famous with great collection of European
antiquity, furniture and 4.5 tons chandelier, the palace has 285 rooms of 46
halls. After palace the next stop is Bezmi Alem Mosque. Then you will drive to
the restaurant for lunch break. After lunch, you will first drive by
Golden Horn shores viewing the City Walls, dating back to the Byzantine Era.
Then you will reach Eyup area, where you will take a short cable-car ride up to
Pierre Loti Hill, where you can get one of the most magnificent views of
Istanbul and Golden Horn. Pierre Loti Hill, is named after French author Pierre
Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viaud) who fell in love with Istanbul at first sight,
and frequented in the area a lot. After a short stop at the hill, you will get
on the vehicle and drive to Eminonu, where you will get on the boat for a
2-hour Bosphorus Cruise. You will see the most impressive sights along the
shores of the Bosphorus including Dolmabahce Palace, Ciragan Palace, Maiden´s
Tower, Bosphorus bridges, Rumeli and Anadolu fortresses and Ottoman Residences.
After the cruise, you will be dropped off back at your hotel at around 17:00.
(breakfast at hotel, lunch on the tour)
Day
4: Ephesus Ancient City and Virgin Mary's House Tour: You will be
picked up from your hotel in Sultanahmet or Taksim at 05:15 to be transferred
to Ataturk Airport to take 07:30 flight to Izmir. Upon your arrival, you will
be greeted and transferred to Ephesus to meet with your guide and the rest of
the group for full-day Ephesus Ancient City Tour. You will visit to EPHESUS
which is known to be the Commercial, the Religious and the Social Center of
Antiquity, and one of the Highlights of any Visit in Turkey. Ephesus is
probably the best combination of Greek, Roman and Byzantine civilisations. You
will visit the Fountains of Trajan, Polio, the Temples of Hadrian and Domition,
the Library of Celcius, Bouloterion and the Great Theatre with a capacity of
24.000 spectators. After lunch, you will drive to Temple of Artemis (Diana),
than drive to the House of the Virgin Mary. After the tour, you will be
transferred to Kusadasi and drop-off at your hotel. Accommodation in Kusadasi.
(lunch on the tour)
Day 5: Pamukkale Travertines and Hierapolis
Ancient City: You will be picked up from your hotel
at around 08:15 for the tour of Pamukkale, which is the center of natural
thermal spring waters with healing properties. Due to the chemical properties
in the water, pure white colored travertine and stepped water terraces have
been created on the mountain slope. It is for its resemblance to cotton piles
that it is called ´Cotton Castle´ in Turkish. Visit the travertine and the
ancient city of Hierapolis which has the biggest Necropolis with 1200
gravestones in Anatolia. The sacred pool also is one of the highlights of the
site. There shallow thermal waters ripple over a wonderful scattering of
ancient roman ruins that lie beneath. After the tour, you will be transferred
back to your hotel. Accommodation in Kusadasi (breakfast at hotel, lunch on the
tour)
Day 6 :Transfer to Izmir
Airport fort o fly Istanbul
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We can make you further
arrangements upon your request in Istanbul
for accommodation and
airport transfers. Please let us know if you need.
Price :
980 per person in double/twin room. If you are a single traveller,
there will be 25% single supplement surcharge.
We offer a 5% discount for cash payments.
Tour Prices Include Accommodation in 3* hotels or similar boutique hotels Breakfasts in all hotels Land transportation by A/C vehicle All airport transfers mentioned in the programme Domestic flight tickets Professional licensed guiding services Entrance fees to the museums during guided tours Tour Prices Exclude Personal expenses Dinner Tips Extra Offers
Whirling Dervish Show: 20 Eur per person extra
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