8 Days Turkey Package Tour

8 Days Turkey Package Tour - Gallipoli, Troy, Pergamum, Ephesus, Pamukkale, Cappadocia

“8 Days Turkey Package Tour” starts from / return to your hotel in Istanbul to visit historical attractions in addition to the magnificent natural landscape in Turkey.

Let's get in touch with Turkish history in Istanbul and Gallipoli. At Troy, Pergamum, and Ephesus, you are going to visit Turkish ancient cities to see valuable ruins. In addition, Pamukkale and Cappadocia will show you breathtaking beauties created by nature. All you need is just join our tour!! The professional guide takes you to all the hot spots there!!

This package includes Airport Transfer, Domestic transportation, Domestic Flight, 7 Nights Hotel with Breakfast, Sightseeing Tours with Group, a Professional Tour Guide, and Lunch during tours. All you need is in this package! Just book and enjoy a trip!!

If you would like to extend your stay, to add any optional tour, or to make a small change on this itinerary, please feel free to contact us. We are happy to help you anytime.

ITINERARY

Day 1: Gallipoli Tour(*L)

Your guide pick you up from your hotel at 06:30-07:00 am, and we depart for Gallipoli by driving. On our way, a small breakfast packet is served for you in the car. After driving for 5 hours you arrive at Gallipoli and start your visits to different memorials of Dardanelles; Brighton Beach, Beach Cemetery, ANZAC Cove, Ariburnu Cemetery, ANZAC Commemorative Site, Respect to Turkish soldiers Statue, Lone Pine Australian Memorial, Johnstons Jolly (Turkish and Allied trenches and tunnels), and Turkish 57. Infantry Regiment Cemetery, The Nek, Chunuk Bair New Zealand Memorial.
You are going to have your lunch at a traditional Turkish restaurant.
End of the tour, you take a ferry to Canakkale and overnight stay at the hotel.

Day 2: Troy and Pergamum Tour(*B *L)

Around 08:30-08:45 am, your guide picks you up from the hotel and you join the group to visit Troy Ancient City. You may be surprised by the huge Trojan Horse at the entrance. You discover over 10 ancient cities built one on another dating back to 3500 BC., and Apollo Temple, fortified city walls, the battlefield where Hector and Achilles fought for power, Roman Theater, and Greco-Roman Senate building roundly shaped that hosted deputies of democracy. After Troy, we drive to Pergamum. You are going to have your lunch in a traditional restaurant. Then visit the ancient city of Pergamum which held one of the most important libraries in the ancient world. After the tour, we are going to Kusadasi and take you to the hotel.

Day 3: Ephesus Tour(*B *L)

After breakfast, you are picked up from your hotel around 09:00-09:30 and joined to the full-day Ephesus tour. Your visit starts with Artemis Temple which is one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world, and the city ruins of Ephesus including Hadrian Temple, Celcius Library, theater, and hammams, passing through the old harbor path. You have your lunch in a traditional Turkish restaurant. In the afternoon you visit the House of the Virgin Mary where she spent her last 5 years. This is recognized by the Vatican as a pilgrimage destination for Christians, visited by Pope Leo XII and Benedict XVI. End of the tour, we are going back to the hotel and overnight stay in Kusadasi.

Please note: The tour ends approximately at 4.00 pm. You are treated to an optional leather fashion show, please inform your guide if you are not interested.

Day 4: Pamukkale Tour(*B *L)
Around 08:00-08:30 am, we pick you up from your hotel and join your group for the full-day tour of Pamukkale. Pamukkale meaning “cotton castle” in Turkish is a natural site containing hot springs and travertines. White terraces have been created by the flowing water with its temperate climate throughout the year. The hot springs there have been used as a spa since the 2nd century BC, and people came to soothe their ailments. We also visit the ancient city Hierapolis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The large Necropolis is filled with sarcophagi, including the Sarcophagus of Marcus Aurelius. You have a chance to swim in Cleopatra Swimming Pool. During the tour, you take your lunch at a local restaurant.  End of the tour we take you to the hotel and overnight stay in Kusadasi.

Day 5: Transfer to Cappadocia by a Private Car(*B)
After breakfast, our driver picks you up from your hotel and drive to Cappadocia. On the way, we stop to visit Konya for a break. You have a chance to visit Mevlana Museum and you can have your lunch in this city (Lunch is not included in the package). After arriving at Cappadocia, we take you to the hotel and overnight stay.

Day 6: Northern Cappadocia Tour(*B *L)
Note: Hot Air Balloon Flight is available as an option for this morning.

After breakfast, your guide takes you from your hotel around 10:00-10:15 am and you join the tour visiting Northern Cappadocia. Your tour starts with a splendid view over Cappadocia at Goreme Panorama. Then you will be amazed by Open Air Museum, which is the biggest monastery complex and has many beautiful churches with fantastic wall paintings. After visiting Ortahisar, a typical village with its castle and cave food storage, you explore mushroom-like formed rocks at Fairy Chimney Valley, Pasabag. Passing through Imagination Valley, Devrent, you are impressed by animals petrified in the rocks. For your lunch, please enjoy a restaurant with an open buffet variety. After the tour, we take you to your hotel and overnight stay in Cappadocia.

Day 7: Southern Cappadocia Tour(*B *L)
Note: Hot Air Balloon Flight is available as an option for this morning.

Your guide take you from the hotel around 10:00-10:15 am and you join your tour. Your visit starts with Uchisar Castle, the biggest fairy chimney used as a fortress by many civilizations. Then be ready to hike about 4km in beautiful Red Valley passing through Rose Valley. While discovering beautiful rock churches, you can enjoy a Cappadocia-like landscape and arrive at Cavusin village, one of the ancient settlements of the region with its cave houses. For lunch, you are going to a traditional Turkish Restaurant. In the afternoon you will be amazed at Underground City, which is the widest underground city in the region and served many centuries as a refuge for the local people and saved early Christians from Roman persecution. Then you visit Pigeon Valley where lovely pigeons are still living in pigeon houses carved in rocks and has a wonderful view over Uchisar castle. At last, you are going to Three Beauties Valley with its magnificent landscape over Urgup town, which is famous for its wine factories. 

Please note: The tour ends approximately at 4.00 pm. You are treated to an optional traditional hand-made carpet demonstration. Please inform your guide if you are not interested and then you are dropped at your hotel.

Day 8: Fly back to Istanbul(*B)
According to your flight time, we transfer you to the airport to take the flight to Istanbul. Upon your arrival in Istanbul, our agent meet you at the exit gate of the domestic terminal holding a board with your names and you are transferred to your hotel. (Hotel is not included for this day.) End of our service.

*B Breakfast
*L Lunch

Important Notice

• If your domestic flight is fully booked on your travel date after you pay a deposit, we will get in contact with you within a few hours. You will be offered an available different itinerary with the same destinations and tour details within your travel period, or your deposit will be refunded accordingly.
• Flights might be from Ataturk or Sabiha Gokcen Airport.
• Dear guests who are traveling with us, we would like to inform you that we do not take any responsibility in case of loss and forgetting of any valuable belongings in buses, any kind of transfer vehicles, at airports or bus stations. Please keep your belongings with you.