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Depart for Istanbul, Turkey
Hos Geldiniz! Welcome to Turkey! Upon your arrival in Istanbul, you will be met by a Troy Tours representative and transferred to your hotel.
Meals: Dinner
Hotel: Sirkeci Mansion
After breakfast, you will visit the Blue Mosque, built in only 7 years by order of Sultan Ahmet I in 1609. It gets its name from the blue Iznik tiles that cover the inside. Stroll through Topkapi Palace, with its impressive displays of jewelry, porcelain, clocks, miniatures, textiles, and religious artifacts. “Topkapi” means “Gate of the Cannon” for the Byzantine arsenal once situated where the Palace now stands. Visit St. Sophia, the Christian masterpiece whose construction was presided over by the Emperor Justinian. The day’s tour ends with a visit to the Grand Bazaar, a shopper’s delight with more than 4000 shops from which to choose.
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Hotel: Sirkeci Mansion
Today you will cross the Bosphorus to the Asian Continent and continue to Ankara. You will visit the Anatolian Civilization Museum housed in a 15th century covered bazaar and inn. It contains a rich collection of Hittite artifacts, which date to the beginning of the 2nd century B.C. There are also masterpieces of other cultures that flourished in the Anatolian heartland.
Meals: Breakfast
Hotel: Radisson Blue
After breakfast, your tour continues to Cappadocia, passing a large salt lake. Enroute, you will visit a Caravanserai, many of which were built throughout the countryside by Seljuk and Osmanli rulers as inns for weary travelers and their animals. You will then stop at the picturesque village of Uchisar.
Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Hotel: Kaya Uchisar
Today’s visit takes you to the labyrinthine tunnels of an underground city, with numerous levels carved out of the earth containing chapels, living quarters, kitchens, stores, and cellars. Many of these amazing cities were so well hidden that they were not discovered until the 1950’s. The tour then proceeds to Goreme Valley and the open-air museum of Zelve, with their impressive rock churches and frescoes.
Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Hotel: Kaya Uchisar
After breakfast, drive to the holy city of Konya, home of the Sufi mystic, Mevlana Rumi, and visit the Museum of the Whirling Dervishes and the Selcuk Mosaic Museum.
Continue to Antalya, the jewel of Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, aptly named the “Turquoise Coast.”
Meals: Breakfast
Hotel: The Marmara
Today’s half-day tour takes you for a visit to the vast ruins of Perge, with its Acropolis, thermal baths, Roman basilica, and paving stones that still exhibit the marks of chariot wheels. The Aspendos Theater is next. The remainder of the day is free. We recommend you stroll through the charming Old Section of Antalya.
Meals: Breakfast
Hotel: The Marmara
Today, your tour travels to Pamukkale, where calcareous water cascading over the mountainside, forming numerous levels of water basins and white stalactites, has given it the colorful name of “Cotton Fortress.” While there, you will visit the ruins of Hierapolis, founded in 190 B.C. by the King of Pergamum.
Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Hotel: Doga Thermal
After breakfast, visit Aphrodisias, the remains of an ancient city that flourished in the 1st century B.C. Archaeological excavations are ongoing, uncovering a wealth of artifacts, the remains of a once thriving community of 60,000 inhabitants. Continue to Izmir, ancient Smyrna.
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Hotel: Swissotel Buyuk Efes
You will have a half-day tour of the ruins of Ephesus, one of the largest archaeological sites in the world. Founded in the 13th century B.C., it was an important center of Christianity, where the Apostles Paul and John preached the infant religion. Return to Izmir.
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Hotel: Swissotel Buyuk Efes
After breakfast, drive along the Aegean to the famous ruins of Pergamum, the site of one of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor. Next, visit legendary Troy where you can see a replica of the wooden horse. Once thought to be the figment of literary imagination, Troy was uncovered due largely to the efforts of Heinrich Schliemann, who steadfastly believed in its existence, using his own money to successively uncover nine different settlements in Troy.
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Hotel: Double Tree
After breakfast, the tour will cross the Dardanelles, the Hellespont of antiquity, and site of fierce battles during World War I. Continue to Istanbul. You will have the evening at leisure.
Meals: Breakfast
Hotel: Sirkeci Mansion
Full day at your leisure.
Meals: Breakfast
Hotel: Sirkeci Mansion
After breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport for your final departure.
Definitely good value for money! I enjoyed this tour very much! The hotels were of the great quality, the tour guide was very intelligent and information he provided was very interesting. Visited great places in Turkey – highlights for me were a cruise in Antalya, ballooning in Cappadocia, and a Bosphorus river cruise. Definitely good value for money! Thank you! Sep 2022
As always, Troy Tours provided an excellent service, love to use them for my trips. Definitely recommended.
I think there should be more time in Cappadocia since it is the best of the whole tour and it is very little time to enjoy it, other than that, great hotels, and the coach was excellent.
I recommend Classic Turkey for the following reasons: excellent tour director, clean, modern coach, good hotels and reasonably good itinerary.
my family of 4(including a 4 year old) went on the Classic Turkey tour in november. We had an amazing time. I have travelled a lot but never on a group tour. This was one of the best trips we have ever had. Everything was taken care of, we just sat back and enjoyed. The hotels were nice, the tours were nice. The only thing you might want to consider is that you travel on a bus from city to city which can be many hours on the bus. We however didnt mind because it allowed us to really see the country. If you travel with kids just make sure to take something they can watch movies on while on the bus. I had many questions and Can was always very prompt at answering, actually all of my emails were answered within the hour. We were very satisfied with the whole experience