Istanbul Trip Overview
Book your amazing Turkey tour with TripAdvisor’s one of the Top Rated travel agencies, Travel Tips Turkey. Including Istanbul, this 7 days Turkey tour package is a great chance to experience the unique opportunity to visit all major destinations: Istanbul, Cappadocia, Pamukkale and Ephesus. You only travel by bus for maximum cost saving. Start the trip with Istanbul, the colorfur land of old civilizations, then go ahead with Cappadocia, famous with its distinctive “fairy chimneys,” tall, cone-shaped rock formations. Move further with Pamukkale, in other words “Cotton Castle”, is a hot spring with calcium-coated cliffs and pools in inland. Finally end in Ephesus, an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia.
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Duration: 7 days
Starts: Istanbul, Turkey
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey
Book your amazing Turkey tour with TripAdvisor’s one of the Top Rated travel agencies, Travel Tips Turkey. Including Istanbul, this 7 days Turkey tour package is a great chance to experience the unique opportunity to visit all major destinations: Istanbul, Cappadocia, Pamukkale and Ephesus. You only travel by bus for maximum cost saving. Start the trip with Istanbul, the colorfur land of old civilizations, then go ahead with Cappadocia, famous with its distinctive “fairy chimneys,” tall, cone-shaped rock formations. Move further with Pamukkale, in other words “Cotton Castle”, is a hot spring with calcium-coated cliffs and pools in inland. Finally end in Ephesus, an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia.
Itinerary
Day 1: Istanbul: Arrival to Istanbul
Pass By: Sultanahmet District, Istanbul 34122 Turkey
Upon your arrival to Istanbul, our Travel Tips Turkey representative will welcome and transfer you to your hotel. Our travel consultant will provide all the necessary information and papers with a cup of Turkish tea.
You may spend the rest of your day freely to relax.
You will spend the night in Istanbul.
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight in Gulec Hotel (3*) or similar
Day 2: Istanbul: Full Day Old City Tour – Night Bus to Cappadocia
Stop At: Sultanahmet Square, Istanbul Turkey
Following your breakfast and check out from your hotel, your guide will pick you from your hotel for a full day Old City Tour in Sultanahmet.
Highlights you will visit: Sultanahmet (Blue) Mosque, Hagia Sophia, The Hippodrome, The Obelisk of Theodosius, Serpent Column, German Fountain, Grand Bazaar, Topkapi Palace.
In the end, your tour will end at Sultanahmet Square. You may easily walk to our office to wait for your shuttle which will bring to to bus station for your night bus to Cappadocia.
Duration: 7 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast: Breakfast is included in your package.
• Lunch: During the tour, you’ll have complimentary lunch.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 3: Cappadocia: Full Day North Cappadocia (Red) Tour
Stop At: Goreme National Park, Goreme 50180 Turkey
Upon your arrival to Cappadocia bus station, our Travel Tips agent will welcome and transfer you to our Cappadocia office for a full day North Cappadocia Tour.
Highlights you will visit: Goreme Open Air Museum consisting of five Byzantine Orthodox churches, Devrent Valley and Pasabag where you will see animal and fairy-tale like rock formations, the ancient towns of Urgupand Avanosfamous for its red clay pottery. You will also have fun trying to make potteries after a small demonstration.
In the end, you will be accompanied back to your hotel.
You will spend the night in Goreme, Cappadocia.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Lunch: During the tour, you’ll have complimentary lunch.
Accommodation included: Overnight in Mystic Hotel (3*) or similar
Day 4: Cappadocia: Full Day North Cappadocia (Red) Tour – Night Bus to Pamukkale
Stop At: Goreme National Park, Goreme 50180 Turkey
Optional Hot Air Balloon Balloon Ride in Cappadocia is available this day.
Following your breakfast and check-out from your hotel, your Full Day South Cappadocia Tourwill start.
Highlights: Hiking in Red & Rose Valley, Cavusin Village, one of the oldest settlement in the region with its cave houses, Love Valley, Kaymaklı Underground City, Pigeon Valley and Uchisar Castle.
In the end, you will be transferred back to your hotel to wait (around 1 hour) for your pick up for a night bus to Pamukkale.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast: Breakfast is included in your package.
• Lunch: During the tour, you’ll have complimentary lunch.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 5: Pamukkale: Full Day Pamukkale and Hierapolis Tour
Stop At: Pamukkale Natural Park, Pamukkale orenyeri kocacukur alani pamukkale kasabasi, Pamukkale Turkey
Upon your arrival to Pamukkale bus station, we will welcome and transfer you to your hotel for a refreshment around 4 hours before the starting of your full day Pamukkale Hierapolis Tour.
Deriving from springs in a cliff almost 200 m high overlooking the plain, calcite-laden waters have created at Pamukkale (Cotton Palace) an unreal landscape, made up of mineral forests, petrified waterfalls and a series of terraced basins. We will also visit a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hierapolis which is one of the sacred sites of Turkey, dates back thousands of years and also admire the white limestone terraces, known as travertine’s of Pamukkale.
We will see Necropolis – a large burial site generally it was located outside the settlement including Sarcophagus of a general of Marcus Aurelius. You will a chance to swim in famous Cleopatra Swimming Pool. During your tour you will have lunch.
In the end, we will transfer you to your hotel in Kusadasi.
You will spend the night in Kusadasi.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast: Breakfast is included in your package, you may have in your hotel upon arrival to Pamukkale.
• Lunch: During the tour, you’ll have complimentary lunch.
Accommodation included: Overnight in Ilayda Hotel (3*) or similar
Day 6: Ephesus: Full Day Ephesus Ancient City Tour
Stop At: Ancient City of Ephesus, Selcuk 35920 Turkey
Right after your breakfast and check out from your hotel, the full day Ephesus Tour will start.
Highlights we will visit: Temple of Artemis -considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Celsus Library – while most libraries serve only the function of archiving books and documents, this one served as the final resting place of Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, in whose honor the library was built. Ephesus Ancient City with its marvelous highlights. House of Virgin Mary – is believed to be where she lived and died.
Also, we will see old theatres, hammams, passing through harbour.
In the end, we will transfer you to our office to wait for your 9PM bus to Istanbul.
Duration: 6 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast: Breakfast is included in your package.
• Lunch: During the tour, you’ll have complimentary lunch.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 7: Istanbul: Departure
Pass By: Transfer Istanbul, omer naci sokak no 50 D1 BakIrkoy, Istanbul 34140 Turkey
You will arrive to Istanbul Bus Station where your tour will end.
Optionally you may add private transfer from the bus station to your centrally located hotel in Istanbul or to airport.
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
