Tour Program
Day 1 - Istanbul: Arrival
Arrive in Istanbul airport, meet your driver and private car, will be ready to transfer you to the hotel. A welcome package with your tour vouchers, a tourist map, and any other touristic information that you may find useful will be waiting for you upon your arrival at your hotel. (No Meals)
Day 2 - Istanbul: Ottoman Heritage Tour - City of Sultans
Today you will have a full day tour of visiting:
- Hagia Sophia Museum (the Ayasofya Mosque)
- Sunken Palace or Sunken Cistern (Yerebatan sarnici)
- the Blue Mosque (Sultanahmet Mosque)
- the world’s largest covered bazaar with 4000 shops, is known as Grand Bazaar
- Lunch
- Topkapi Palace Museum – Great Ottoman Sultans Palace including; Ottoman Imperial Treasury, gardens, Sultan’s kitchen, Sacred Relics.
Breakfast, Lunch included
Day 3 - Bursa City Trip – The 1st Ottoman Capital
Travel by ferry to Yalova, then drive to Bursa, where we visit:
- the early 15th century Green Mosque
- the Green Tomb, where Sultan Mehmet I was buried in 1421
- the imperial Great Mosque, with its 20 domes and 12 massive pillars
- Lunch on the mountain barbeque.
- the Bazaar and Koza Hani
- the silk cocoon Caravanserai
- - returning to Istanbul in the evening.
Breakfast, Lunch included
Day 4 - Istanbul: Bosphorus Views & Cruise – Cappadocia
In the morning a visit to:
- the Spice Market, where locals still shop for herbs and spices coming from all over the world
- Then, embark on a cruise by boat on Bosphorus, the unique winding strait separating two continents
After the cruise return to your hotel. Pick up from your hotel in the afternoon and transfer to the airport with your private car and driver. You will take a direct one-hour flight from Istanbul to Cappadocia. Upon arrival you will be transferred to your hotel in Urgup, which is a combination of cave rooms and suites. Enjoy your stay in this authentic CAVE hotel Breakfast included
Day 5 - Cappadocia
Today you will take enjoyable visits to:
- Devrent and Pasabagi valleys and Avanos
- Goreme Open Air Museum and
- Uchisar Castle.
Breakfast, Lunch included
Day 6 - Konya - a place of Jalal ad-Din Rumi/Sufism
After breakfast drive along the region, which will give you a chance to see untouched beauties of the country: villagers working in their farms, fertile plains and the cultural diversity between the cities. Arrive at Konya to see:
- the Mevlana Museum, which shelters the tomb of Rumî, known to his followers as Mevlana, a Muslim poet and mystic
- Free time to shop in the local market
- And then check into the hotel for stay overnight.
Breakfast, Lunch included
Day 7 - Konya - capital of Seljuk Turks Muslim State
After breakfast visits to:
- Karatay Tile Museum, This museum features tiles from the Seljuk Empire
- Ince Minare , houses wooden and stone works of the Seljuk period
- Alaaddin Hill and Mosque, The mosque built on the Alaaddin Hill, is the oldest historical building in Anatolia from the Seljuk period. (1116-1156) Alaaddin Palace was built during the reign of Sultan Kilic Arslan II.
Breakfast, Lunch included
Day 8 - Konya – Istanbul
After breakfast, transfer to the airport with your private car and driver. Take a direct flight from Konya to Istanbul.
Arrive in Istanbul airport. This is the end of the itinerary.
Breakfast included
Included
- Bed & Breakfast accommodation in mentioned hotels, domestic flights tickets in economy class, transportation by air-conditioned, non-smoking and comfortable vehicles, services of qualified local tour guides, private transfers, meals and entrance fees where indicated in the itinerary.