8 Days Turkey Package Tour

8 Days Turkey Package Tour -  Istanbul, Cappadocia, Pamukkale, Ephesus

“ 8Days Turkey Package Tour” starts from your arrival at Istanbul airport from your country to visit Turkish most attractive destinations. In addition to these destinations, you can enjoy a driving trip to Turkey's scenery and visit Konya, one of the Turkish historic towns known as the birthplace of the Mevlevy Order.

This package includes Airport Transfer, Domestic Transportation including Flight tickets, 7nights Hotels with Breakfast, Sightseeing Tours, a Professional Tour Guide, and Lunch during tours.

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: Arrival in Istanbul from your Country
Upon arrival at Istanbul Airport (IST) or Sabiha Gokcen Airport, our representative welcomes you at the exit after passport control inside of the international terminal with a sign M 55. Then you are transferred to your hotel and enjoy the rest of the time in the city.

Day 2: Free Day in Istanbul (*B)
After breakfast enjoy Istanbul's old city on your own. Your hotel is within walking distance from Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, or other tourist attractions.  If you wish to have a guide for Istanbul's old city, you can reserve the Daily Istanbul old city tour or Private Istanbul City Tour as your option. Overnight in Istanbul.

Day 3: Fly to Cappadocia & Join to North Cappadocia Tour( *L)

You are picked up from the hotel around 5 am and transferred to the airport to take a flight to Cappadocia. Please check in for your flight with the information provided after booking this tour and take your flight. On your arrival, our driver take you to our local office to join your tour. 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. The tour continues to the pottery town Avanos. Here is also famous for traditional carpet weaving. After taking lunch, you are going to visit Fairy Chimney Valley and Imagination Valley where you enjoy the formations of fairy chimneys. End of the tour, we transfer you to your hotel in Cappadocia.

Day 4: 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 have a wonderful view over Uchisar castle. At last, you are going to Three Beauties Valley with its beautiful view over Urgup town, famous for its wine factories. After the tour, we take you to your hotel and overnight stay.

Day 5: Cappadocia to Pamukkale via Konya – Semi Private minivan (*B)
After breakfast, our driver picks you up from your hotel and drives to Pamukkale for approximately 7.5 hours. On the way, we stop at Konya for a break. You have a chance to visit Mevlana Museum and you can take your lunch in this city (Lunch is not included.) Upon your arrival at Pamukkale, we take you to your hotel and overnight stay.

Day 6: Pamukkale and Hierapolis 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. After the tour, we drive you to Kusadasi (3 hours) and take you to the hotel.

 Day 7: Ephesus Tour & Fly back to Istanbul (*B *L)

Your guide pick you up from the hotel around 09:00-09:30 am to go to the Ephesus tour. Your visit starts with Artemis Temple which is one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world, and you explore the city ruins of Ephesus including the Hadrian Temple, Celsius library, theater, and Turkish hammams, passing through the old harbor path. Then you will feel the holy atmosphere at Isabey Mosque.  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.

After the tour, we transfer you to Izmir Airport to take the flight to Istanbul. Upon your arrival, our agent meets you at the exit gate of the domestic terminal holding a board with your names and you are transferred to your hotel.

Day 8: Istanbul, departure(*B)
According to your flight time, we take you to Istanbul Airport (IST) or Sabiha Gokcen Airport. Please check in for your flight by yourself. End of our service.

*B Breakfast
*L Lunch

Important notice

• If your domestic flight is fully booked on your travel date after you pay the 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.
• A hot air balloon tour is not included in the package. If you are interested in it, please ask cost and details.
• 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.