Istanbul Trip Overview
Start and end in Istanbul! With the In-depth Cultural tour of Turkey In 10 Days. You have a 10 days tour package taking you through Istanbul, Cappadocia, and more destinations in Turkey. Includes accommodation, flights, an expert guide, insurance, meals, transport, and more.
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Duration: 10 days
Starts: Istanbul, Turkey
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What to Expect When Visiting Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey
Start and end in Istanbul! With the In-depth Cultural tour of Turkey In 10 Days. You have a 10 days tour package taking you through Istanbul, Cappadocia, and more destinations in Turkey. Includes accommodation, flights, an expert guide, insurance, meals, transport, and more.
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive Istanbul – Airport Transfer
Stop At: Istanbul, Istanbul
Welcome to Istanbul. Our driver will meet you at the airport. You will be transferred to your hotel.
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight in Istanbul – Recital Hotel (or similar)
Day 2: Explore the Old City
Stop At: Hagia Sophia Mosque, Sultan Ahmet, Ayasofya MeydanI No:1, Istanbul 34122 Turkey
After breakfast, Our guide will meet you at reception to start the tour. You will visit first Hagia Sophia. It is a Late Antique place of worship in Istanbul, designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles. Built-in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial capital of Constantinople, it was the largest Christian church of the eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) and the Eastern Orthodox Church, except during the Latin Empire from 1204 to 1261, when it became the city’s Latin Catholic cathedral. In 1453, after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, it was converted into a mosque. In 1935, the secular Turkish Republic established it as a museum. In 2020, it re-opened as a mosque.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Topkapi Palace, Cankurtaran Mahallesi Gulhane Park, Near Sultanahmet Square, Istanbul 34122 Turkey
then you head to Topkapi Palace. The Topkapı Palace is a large museum in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Blue Mosque, Sultanahmet Mah At Meydani Cad No 7, Istanbul 34122 Turkey
Depends on the pray time you will visit Blue Mosque which is an Ottoman-era historical imperial mosque located in Istanbul, Turkey. A functioning mosque also attracts large numbers of tourist visitors. It was constructed between 1609 and 1616 during the rule of Ahmed I. Its Külliye contains Ahmed’s tomb, a madrasah, and a hospice.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Hippodrome, Binbirdirek, Sultan Ahmet ParkI No:2, Istanbul Turkey
Hippodrome of Constantinople is a square in Istanbul, Turkey. Previously, it was a circus that was the sporting and social center of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Grand Bazaar, Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over 4,000 shops on a total area of 30,700 m2, attracting between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily.
You will have time for shopping in one of the first shopping malls in the world.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight in Istanbul – Recital Hotel Sultanahmet (or similar)
Day 3: Jewels of Istanbul
Stop At: Dolmabahce Palace, Visnezade Mahallesi Dolmabahce Cd, Istanbul 34357 Turkey
After you meet with your guide at the hotel, you will visit Dolmabahce Palace which has built-in 19th century is one of the most glamorous palaces in the world. It was the administrative center of the late Ottoman Empire with the last of Ottoman Sultans was residing there.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Camlica Hill, Turistik Camlica Cd. Uskudar, Istanbul Turkey
after Dolmabahce Palace, you will pass across the Bosphorus by driving and reach Camlica Hill on the Asian Continent side of Istanbul. You can see the Bosphorus, two of the bridges which link each side of Istanbul, the Old City of Istanbul, and more.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Bosphorus Strait, Istanbul 34122 Turkey
you will take a boat to Bosphorus Strait for about 1 and a half hours. During your tour, you will see more palaces, mentions, and famous restaurants just on the side of Bosphorus.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Pierre Loti Tepesi, Idris Kosku Cad. Eyup, Istanbul 34050 Turkey
after lunch, A flyover by Cable Car, enjoy the beautiful view of Golden Horn from Pierre Loti hill.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Misir Carsisi (Spice Market), Rustem Pasa Mahallesi, Erzak Ambari Sok. No:92 Eminonu – Fatih, Istanbul 34116 Turkey
The Spice Bazaar is one of the largest bazaars in the city. Located in the Eminönü quarter of the Fatih district, it is the most famous covered shopping complex after the Grand Bazaar.
You will have time for shopping in this historical bazaar.
Duration: 45 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight in Istanbul – Recital Hotel Sultanahmet (or similar)
Day 4: Gallipoli – Full Day Guided Tour
Stop At: Gallipoli Peninsula, 17502 Pazarlı/Gelibolu/Çanakkale, Turkey
After breakfast, you say goodbye to Istanbul. One of the most emotionally touching places in Turkey today you visit the WWI Battlefields of Gallipoli. Includes Anzac Cove, Lone Pine, Chunuk Bair, Memorials, and Trenches.
Duration: 4 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight in Canakkale
Day 5: Troy& Pergamon – Full Day Guided Tour
Stop At: Troy (Truva), Tevfikiye Koyu, Intepe, Canakkale Turkey
This morning you visit the legendary City of Troy, home of the famed Trojan Horse.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Pergamon Antik Kenti, Bergama Turkey
After we leave Troy we will drive to Pergamon for 3 and a half hours. The city is centered on a 335-meter-high (1,099 ft) mesa of andesite which formed its acropolis.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight in Kusadasi
Day 6: Explore Pamukkale (Cotton Castle)
Stop At: Pamukkale, Pamukkale
After breakfast, you heading to the magnificent White calcium terraces, known as Cotton Castle (Pamukkale) where you also tour the ancient city of Hierapolis. This city was used in Roman times for its therapeutic powers. Today bring your swimsuit with you because you will have time to enjoy the thermal water of Pamukkale.
Duration: 3 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight in Kusadasi
Day 7: Explore Ephesus & Fly to Cappadocia
Stop At: Ancient City of Ephesus, Selcuk 35920 Turkey
We start the tour with Ephesus, which was a city in ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of the former Arzawan capital by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists. During the Classical Greek era, it was one of twelve cities that were members of the Ionian League. The city came under the control of the Roman Republic in 129 BC.
Duration: 2 minutes
Stop At: The Temple of Artemis, Ataturk, Park Ici Yolu No:12, Selcuk Turkey
After Ephesus we proceed to The Temple of Artemis or Artemision, also known as the Temple of Diana, which was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis (associated with Diana, a Roman goddess).
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Meryemana (The Virgin Mary’s House), Sultaniye Mahallesi, Selcuk 35100 Turkey
The House of the Virgin Mary is a Catholic shrine located on Mt. Koressos in the vicinity of Ephesus, 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) from Selçuk in Turkey.
After the tour, we will transfer you to the Istanbul Airport and you will take your flight to Cappadocia. Upon your arrival, we will transfer you to your hotel.
Duration: 45 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight in Cappadocia
Day 8: Explore Cappadocia – Full Day Guided Tour
Stop At: Devrent Valley, Devrent Mevkii No:1 Urgup Yolu, 50500 Turkey
We start to explore Cappadocia with Devrent Valley (also spelled as Dervent Valley) reveals many different rock formations and is only a 10-minute drive from Goreme. The small fairy chimneys in the valley form a lunar landscape, or moonscape, by their strange look. The valley also has many animal-shaped rocks.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Pasabag, Urgup Turkey
Pasabag or Pasha’s Vineyard is situated on the Zelve road between the popular town of Goreme and traditional pottery-making town Avanos. Here you can find spectacular cone topped rock pillars known as Fairy Chimneys standing tall throughout the vineyard, Pasha was a in important officer in Ottoman times when the region was captured. However Pasabag is more commonly known as Monks Valley, it earned its name from the many monk refuges carved into the soft rock cones.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Avanos, Avanos, Cappadocia
Drive to the city of Avanos. The most famous historical feature of Avanos, which is still relevant and very visible today, is its production of earthenware pottery; it is also the most economic activity in the town. The ceramic trade in this district and its countless pottery factories date right back to the Hittites, and the ceramic clay from the red silt of the Kızılırmak has always been used. It is a popular destination because of its attractive old town with cobbled streets, and views over the river.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Goreme Open-Air Museum, Merkez, Muze Cd., Goreme 50180 Turkey
In the afternoon visit another beautiful open air museum at Goreme where the remains of rock-cut churches and Christian settlements date back hundreds of years.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Uchisar, Uchisar, Cappadocia
Lastly, before returning to your hotel, visit the natural castles at Uchisar. After the tour, we will be back at our hotel.
Duration: 45 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight in Cappadocia
Day 9: Explore Cappadocia – Full Day Guided Tour
Stop At: Red Valley, Nevsehir Ortahisar, Nevsehir 50650 Turkey
After having breakfast at the hotel, we will again depart for a full-day Cappadocia tour. Depart from your hotel to visit Red valley, and explore the famous rock-cut churches and hike 5 km through the Güllüdere valley.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Çavuşin, 50502 Çavuşin/Avanos/Nevşehir, Turkey
Then visit Cavusin village. This village is famous for the houses and churches of Christian clergymen.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Pigeon Valley, Uchisar KasabasI Nevşehir Kapadokya, Goreme 50240 Turkey
After lunch Drive to the pigeon valley.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Kaymakli Underground City, Derinkuyu Turkey
In the afternoon visit Kaymaklı underground city. Where early Christians lived in fear and faith.
Duration: 1 minute
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight in Cappadocia
Day 10: Explore Turkey – Departure from Turkey
Stop At: Sultanhani Kervansarayi, SultanhanI Zafer Mahallesi Sehit Murat Caddesi No 3, Sultanhani 68190 Turkey
Today you travel to Konya following the ancient Silk Road. On the way, you will see Sultanhani Caravansary which is the biggest and the most beautiful caravansary from Selcuk Turks Period.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Mevlana Muzesi, Mevlana Cd. No:1, Konya 42030 Turkey
Once arrive in Konya you will visit the Mevlana Museum. It is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian Sufi mystic. It was also the dervish lodge (tekke) of the Mevlevi order, better known as the whirling dervishes.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Karatay Medresesi Museum, Alaaddin Meydani, Konya Turkey
After Mevlana Museum you will visit Alaaddin Mosque and Karatay Madrasa which are remained from the Seljuk Period of Anatolia.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Pass By: Istanbul, Istanbul
Our tour concludes and we say goodbye and transferred to the airport. Fly back to Istanbul.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.
