15 Days Turkey Tour

After having your breakfast at your hotel, you will be picked up for a half day morning Bosphorus tour for a memorable day. You will have a chance to see; Spice Market, Golden Horn, City Walls and you will admire the beauty of the Bosphorus shores and its most expensive pavillions and palaces.

End of the tour transfer to your hotel. Free afternoon to discover the charming beauty of the historic old city at your leisure. Overnight in Istanbul.

We pick you up from your hotel in the morning (06:30 -07:00 am), to depart for Gallipoli.

Today the Gallipoli battlefields are peaceful places, covered in brush and pine forests. But for nearly nine months in 1915 and 1916, Gallipoli witnessed some of World War I’s most intense fighting with around 100,000 were killed and 400,000 wounded. The battle pitted untested troops from former British colonies in the Pacific against Turks fighting to protect their homeland from foreign invasion. Nearly a century later, Australians, New Zealanders, and Turks all regard the conflict at Gallipoli as a central event in their modern history.

We’ll embark upon a guided tour of the region, once the site of fierce fighting and today almost hauntingly beautiful, with its wooded landscape dotted with understated memorials to the war dead. Full day’s tour of Dardanelles, Brighton Beach, Beach Cemetery, ANZAC Cove, Ariburnu Cemetery, ANZAC Commemorative Site, Respect to Mehmetcik Statue, Lone Pine Australian Memorial, Johnstons Jolly (Turkish and Allied trenches and tunnels), Turkish 57 th Infantry Regiment Cemetery, The Nek, Chunuk Bair New Zealand Memorial. End of the tour transfer to your hotel and overnight in Canakkale or Eceabat.

After breakfast at the hotel and depart for our daily guided Troy Tour. We will visit the archaeological site of this 5000 years old ancient city. Troy is a legendary city and scene of the Trojan War, as described in Homer’s Iliad relating the tale of beautiful Helen, the Queen of Sparta, and Paris, the Trojan Prince. We see the Megaron houses, a small Roman theatre and Bouletarion, city walls, a small site museum and reconstructed wooden horse. After visiting Troy then you will take a bus to Kusadası which will take about six hours by comfortable, non-smoking, air-conditioned bus. Upon arrival, transfer to your hotel, overnight in Kusadası.

After breakfast at your hotel then our daily guided Ephesus Tour begins by visiting Isa Bey Mosque, the remains of the Artemis Temple, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Afterwards, it proceeds to the stunning main site of Ephesus, undoubtedly the best preserved Greco-Roman city. Unforgettable highlights of the ruins are the Celsius Library, Agora, Theater, Odeon, Trajan Fountain, Domitianus Temple and Roman Latrines. Following a lunch break, visit the House of Virgin Mary; legend has it that this is where she spent her final days after she was brought there by St. John.

After the tour, you will be transferred to your hotel and overnight in Kusadası or Selcuk.

After breakfast at your hotel in Kusadası or Selcuk then you will be picked up from the hotel then driven to Pamukkale which is the center of natural thermal spring waters with healing properties. Due to the limestone properties in the water, pure white colored travertines and stepped water terraces have been created on the mountain slope. It is called “Cotton Castle” in Turkish because of its fluffy white aspect. Visit the travertines and the Ancient City of Hierapolis which has the biggest Necropolis in Anatolia with 1200 gravestones. The sacred pool also is one of the main highlights of the site. There shallow thermal waters ripple over ancient Roman ruins which lie beneath