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Day1
Istanbul – Kayseri – Cappadocia
Welcome to Turkey! On arrival proceed to domestic section for your internal flight to Cappadocia. Meet & greet at the airport in Kayseri or Nevsehir and transfer to your hotel. Check in process at the hotel and free time for leisure on your own.
Overnight in Cappadocia. (Dinner)
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Breakfast at the hotel, departure from the hotel for Full Day Goreme City Tour. Firstly, you will stop to take photos at Uc Guzeller which are famed fairy chimneys in Cappadocia. Next, visit to Goreme Open Air Museum where this religious education was started. You will visit the churches, chapels and monasteries carved into the fairy chimneys from the 10th to the 13th centuries with frescos painted on the walls. End of the tour, come back to your hotel.
Overnight in Cappadocia (Breakfast & Dinner)
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Day3
Cappadocia – Pamukkale Via Konya (8 hr 26 min - 650.9 km)
After breakfast at the hotel, check out process at the hotel and then early departure for Pamukkale and we will drive to Pamukkale via Konya. Today’s ride will be fairly long and tiring due to the long distance between Cappadocia and Pamukkale and lack of convenient lodging location in between. On the way, visit to the Mausoleum of Mevlana (the world-wide famous mystic figure), proceed to Pamukkale. Arrive at Pamukkale and transfer to your hotel directly. Check-in process at the hotel and free time for leisure on your own.
Overnight in Pamukkale (Breakfast & Dinner)
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Day4
Pamukkale – Kusadasi (2 hr 49 min - 188.5 km)
Breakfast at the hotel, check out process at the hotel and then start sightseeing to enjoy natural spring water beauty with history. Pamukkale, meaning cotton castle in Turkish, is a natural site that contains hot springs and travertines, terraces or carbonate minerals left by the flowing water. Hierapolis is the place where you will see the Necropolis, the biggest cemetery of Anatolia with 1,200 graves. We will have free time to walk on warm water terraces. End of the tour, proceed to Kusadasi. Arrival Kusadasi and transfer to your hotel. Check-in process at the hotel and free time for leisure on your own.
Overnight in Kusadasi (Breakfast & Dinner)
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Day5
Kusadasi – Ephesus – Kusadasi – Izmir – Istanbul
After breakfast at the hotel we will visit Ephesus ruins, including The Polio Fountain, The Temple of Hadrian that dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian in 138 AD. Then we visit Great Theatre, the largest ancient theatre with 25,000 seat capacity. Later we visit Library of Celsius, one of the most beautiful structure of Ephesus, built in 117 AD. Our last stop will be House of Virgin Mary, where she spent her last years. End of the tour, drive to Izmir Airport for your evening flight to Istanbul (your flight has to be issued after 19:00pm in the evening). Upon arrival Istanbul Airport and transfer to the hotel. Check in process at the hotel and free time on your own.
Overnight in Istanbul (Breakfast).
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Breakfast at the hotel and then meet the guide at the lobby of your hotel for Istanbul Classics and Highlights Tour. You will begin the day with Roman Hippodrome, where the chariot races were organized by the Romans and Byzantines. Blue Mosque, the only mosque with six minarets and its surroundings will be our next place to visit. Next, you will see the German Fountain - a gift of Kaiser Wilhelm 2 and listen to the stories of his liaison with the orient. And then visit to St. Hagia Sophia Museum, the Church of Divine Wisdom, is the highlight of this day. Following the visits your guide will take you to the Spice Bazaar for shopping time on your own. End of the tour, come back to your hotel.
Overnight in Istanbul (Breakfast).
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Breakfast at hotel and free time for shopping till departure. Hotel check-out latest at 12:00 noon (mid-day). Our coach will pick you up at the hotel’s lobby and transfer you to Istanbul Airport for your flight back home. (Breakfast)