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Pick up from your hotel and transfer to airport (SAW / IST)
Morning flight to
Cappadocia (apprx 1 hour)
Pick up from airport for the tour and transfer to the tour
area.
Full day Northern Cappadocia tour including transfers, guide
and entrance fee. This tour will cover the most famous parts of
the region such as Goreme Open Air Museum, Avanos, Urgup,
Dervent Valley and other sites.
Overnight in your Cappadocia hotel.
Optional Inclusion: Hot air balloon tour at
sunrise. (Not included in tour price. We will offer discounted
rate if booked as a part of this package)
After breakfast, full day Southern
Cappadocia Tour including transfers, entrance
fees and lunch. This tour will cover Pigeon (Guvercinlik)
Valley, Uchisar Castle, Kaymakli Valley and other minor sites.
Lunch in a typical Turkish restaurant during the day tour is
included.
Overnight in your Cappadocia hotel.
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Departure in the morning from Cappadocia, we we cross the Tekir
plateau towards Adiyaman and Mt Nemrut. Along the way our first
stop will be the Seljuk Karatay Caravansaray. The next stop
will be Pinarbasi for a short tea break. From here we continue
onto the ancient Severus (Cendere) Bridge and the Karakus
Tumulus where members of the royal family were buried. This
evening we will go to Mt Nemrut, ascend the mountain, watch the
magical sunset over the plateau, and visit the massive ancient
rock statues. After the sunset we return to Adiyaman.
Hotel in Adyaman, breakfast included. Euphrat Hotel or similar
Today we drive to Sanliurfa, visiting Ataturk Dam, Turkey's
largest, along. After short break we drive on to Gobekli Tepe,
predating Stonehenge by some 6,000 years, some believe it is
the site of the world's oldest temple. We then visit the Harran,
a village of Mud-Brick "beehive" houses mentioned in the book
of Genesis where Abraham spent the last years of his life. We
will visit the ruins of Harran including city walls, oldest
Islamic university and the castle dated to eighteen century. We
then drive back to Sanliurfa where we will stay and you will
have chance to see Mevlid-i Halil Mosque, where you can see the
Prophet Abraham Cave and the Pools of the Holy Carp surrounding
it, then wander around in the traditional covered bazaar..
Hotel in Sanliurfa - Hotel Harran, Narlı Ev Butik or similar hotels
Departure from Sanliurfa for Gaziantep where you can see the
famous Mosaic Museum, the largest in the world and home to the
famous 'Gypsy Girl' mosaic. This museum exhibits superb mosaics
discovered at the roman site of Belkis - Zeugma before Birecik
Dam flooded most of the site. In the afternoon we will drive to
Gaziantep airport. Evening flight to Istanbul.
Transfer to your hotel in Istanbul.
PS: The order of some tours can be interchanged.
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Attention: The price of this tour package changes, mainly depending on departure date, time of booking and flight costs. Higher prices may apply based on flight costs on different dates / seasons. Early reservation is highly recommended to secure better prices. Tour itinerary can also be changed because of discordant flight schedules on the requested dates. We will do our best to offer best possible prices.
Mid Season (May, October)
1135 Euro per person in single rooms.
1040 Euro per person in double rooms
995 Euro per person in triple rooms
High Season (June, July,
August, September)
1185 Euro per person in single rooms.
1080 Euro per person in double rooms
1035 Euro per person in triple rooms.
This tour package is not operated in winter season.
Tour prices include:
All taxes.
Accommodation in standard category hotels
Mentioned tours with professional guidance in
English.
Entrance fees for museums during the tours.
Meals mentioned in the itinerary. Drinks are excluded. (B=
Breakfast, L= Lunch, D= Dinner)
Domestic flights and airport transfers as
mentioned.
All connecting transfers in between the tour period.
Compulsory local (TURSAB)
travel agency insurance.
Tour prices do not Include:
Anything not mentioned in the itinerary.
Drinks during any meals
Tours and accommodation in Istanbul.
Your international flights to / from Turkey.
Personal expenses, tips etc.
Excess baggage fee for flights.
Accommodation
tax, payable on the spot by the clients directly - around 1,5
to 2 Euros per room per night, which changes for each hotel
Payment and reservation:
We will request some 30 % of the total tour price in advance to
complete your tour reservation. You can make the advance
payment from our secure online payment link or by mail order.
Final payments can also be made online or at our Istanbul
office, before tour departure dates.
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What is a package tour ?
A package tour is a combination of various daily tours and mini
tour packages operated in different cities.These tour packages
we offer are designed so as to visit the places they include in
the shortest time and the most economical way. Unlike standard
group tours you will be independent from other people in
hotels and during the transportation. You will join other
people only during the guided tours and excursions in day time,
but there will not be any guides accompanying you during
flights, intercity bus rides and transfers. Everything related
to the tour program will be organized by us; such as bus and
plane tickets, hotel reservations, guided tours, all connecting
transfers and you will be under our protection along the way if
ever something goes wrong.
Important Notice
Istanbul is not included in any of the Turkey package tours we
offer. To be able to join them comfortably, you need to stay in
Istanbul at least for 1 night before and after the tour period.
We’d recommend you not to book your international flights or
bus tickets right before or after this tour package,
considering unexpected delays. To be able to benefit from our
airport transfer services in Istanbul, the hotel you stay in
should be centrally located on the European side, roughly
within 2-3 km distance with respect to the downtown
Sultanahmet district,
aka old city. Let us know in advance if you intend to stay at
airport hotels or at hotels out of the city center, especially
if it will be on the Asian side; before and after this tour.
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Cappadocia
Cappadocia is Turkey’s most visited area on account of its
history because of its singularity and the strangeness of its
lunar landscape. It is considered to be one of the wonders of
the world and for centuries it has sheltered churches,
frescoes, mosaics and paintings of Byzantine art. The history
of Cappadocia begins with the eruption of two volcanoes Lava
covered the entire region changing the landscape. In the course
of millennia rain and wind eroded the tufa creating unusual
valleys, fissures, canyons and bizarrely shaped cones.
Dwellings were excavated inside the rocks and after the first
Christians arrived churches and monasteries were also built.
Numerous hermits and ascetics lived in the forgotten valleys.
Under the rule of the Byzantines, Cappadocia became a bulwark
against attacks by the Arabs, and entire underground cities
were built.
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Nemrud Mountain
At the junction of the East and West civilizations, Nemrut Dagi
(Mount Nemrud) is one of the most astounding sites in Turkey: A
collection of colossal statues on a remote mountain 2150m high
on top of the mountain, adorning the temple and tomb of King
Antiochus. The western terrace contains a large slab with a
lion, showing the arrangement of stars and the planets Jupiter,
Mercury and Mars on July 7 62 BC, the possible time when
construction began on this monument. Nemrud is a significant
attraction, with thousands coming at sunrise and sunset to see
the stones in the best possible light. In addition to the
statues, the entire site includes art from the Commagene (Komagene)
civilization, the Eskikale (Old Castle), Yenikale (New Castle),
Karakus Hill and Cendere Bridge. Most people use the nearby
towns of Malatya, Kahta or Adiyaman as a base, and the road to
the summit is only open from mid-April to mid-October because
of heavy snow the rest of the year.
Urfa
The history of Şanlıurfa is recorded from the 4th century BC,
but may date back at least to 9000 BC, when there is ample
evidence for the surrounding sites at Duru, Harran and Nevali
Cori.[4] Within the further area of the city are three
neolithic sites known: Göbekli Tepe, Gürcütepe and the city
itself, where the life-sized limestone "Urfa statue" was found
during an excavation in Balıklıgöl. The city was one of several
in the upper Euphrates-Tigris basin, the fertile crescent where
agriculture began. According to Jewish and Muslim tradition,
Urfa is Ur Kasdim, the hometown of Abraham. This identification
was disputed by Leonard Woolley, the excavator of the Sumerian
city of Ur in 1927 and scholars remain divided on the issue.
Urfa is also one of several cities that have traditions
associated with Job. For the Armenians, Urfa is considered a
holy place since it is believed that the Armenian alphabet was
invented there. Urfa was conquered repeatedly throughout
history, and has been dominated by many civilizations,
Harran
Harran was a major ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia
located 44 kilometers southeast of Şanlıurfa. A few kilometers
from the village of Altınbasak are the archaeological remains
of ancient Harran, a major commercial, cultural, and religious
center first inhabited in the Early Bronze Age III (3rd
millennium BCE) period. Harran is famous for its traditional
"beehive" adobe houses, constructed entirely without wood. The
design of these makes them cool inside, suiting the climatic
needs of the region, and is thought to have been unchanged for
at least 3,000 years. Some were still in use as dwellings until
the 1980s. At the historical site, the ruins of the city walls
and fortifications are still in place, with one city gate
standing, along with some other structures. The demographics of
the village today are made up mostly of ethnic Arabs. It is
believed that the ancestors of the villagers were settled here
during the 18th century by the Ottoman Empire. The women of the
village often have tattoos and are dressed in traditional
Bedouin clothes. There are also some Assyrian villages in the
general area.
Gobeklitepe
Gobekli Tepe is an incredible archaeological site at the top of
a mountain ridge in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey,
approximately 12 km (7 mi) northeast of the city of Şanlıurfa.
It is the oldest known structure buillt for the purpose of
religious rituals. The tell has a height of 15 m (49 ft) and is
about 300 m (984 ft) in diameter. The tell includes two phases
of ritual use dating back to the 10th – 8th millennium BCE.
During the first phase, pre-pottery Neolithic times, circles of
massive T-shaped stone pillars were erected. More than 200
pillars in about 20 circles are currently known through
geophysical surveys. Each pillar has a height of up to 6 m (20
ft) and a weight of up to 20 tons. They are fitted into sockets
that were hewn out of the bedrock. In the second phase, the
erected pillars are smaller and stood in rectangular rooms with
floors of polished lime. The purpose of the structures are
believed to be early neolithic sanctuaries.
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