Istanbul Trip Overview
Start and end in Istanbul!
With the In-depth Cultural tour of Turkey In 13 Days. You have a 13 days tour package taking you through Istanbul, Cappadocia, Ephesus, Pergamon, Pamukkale, and Bodrum in Turkey. Includes accommodation, domestic flights, an expert guide, insurance, meals, transport, and more.
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Duration: 13 days
Starts: Istanbul, Turkey
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Start and end in Istanbul!
With the In-depth Cultural tour of Turkey In 13 Days. You have a 13 days tour package taking you through Istanbul, Cappadocia, Ephesus, Pergamon, Pamukkale, and Bodrum in Turkey. Includes accommodation, domestic flights, an expert guide, insurance, meals, transport, and more.
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive Istanbul – Airport Transfer
Stop At: Istanbul, Istanbul
Welcome to Istanbul. Our driver will meet you at the airport. You will be transferred to your hotel.
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight in Istanbul – Recital Hotel (or similar)
Day 2: Jewels of Istanbul
Stop At: Dolmabahce Palace, Visnezade Mahallesi Dolmabahce Cd, Istanbul 34357 Turkey
After you meet with your guide at the hotel, you will visit Dolmabahce Palace which has built in the 19th century is one of the most glamorous palaces in the world. It was the administrative center of the late Ottoman Empire with the last of Ottoman Sultans was residing there.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Camlica Hill, Turistik Camlica Cd. Uskudar, Istanbul Turkey
after Dolmabahce Palace, you will pass across the Bosphorus by driving and reach Camlica Hill on the Asian Continent side of Istanbul. You can see the Bosphorus, two of the bridges which link each side of Istanbul, the Old City of Istanbul, and more.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Bosphorus, Turkey
You will take a boat to Bosphorus Strait for about 1 and a half hours. During your tour, you will see more palaces, mentions, and famous restaurants just on the side of Bosphorus.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Pierre Loti Tepesi, Idris Kosku Cad. Eyup, Istanbul 34050 Turkey
A flyover by Cable Car, enjoy the beautiful view of Golden Horn from Pierre Loti hill.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Misir Carsisi (Spice Market), Rustem Pasa Mahallesi, Erzak Ambari Sok. No:92 Eminonu – Fatih, Istanbul 34116 Turkey
The Spice Bazaar is one of the largest bazaars in the city. Located in the Eminönü quarter of the Fatih district, it is the most famous covered shopping complex after the Grand Bazaar.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight Istanbul – Recital Hotel Sultanahmet (or similar)
Day 3: Princess Island Tour
Stop At: Princes’ Islands, Princes’ Islands
In the morning after your guide meets you at the hotel lobby, you are going to drive through the pier to take a boat to Princes’ island which is the biggest island within 9 islands of Istanbul. It is a summer holiday escape from Istanbul City. Buyukada is famous for Ottoman Houses.
Duration: 5 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight Istanbul – Recital Hotel Sultanahmet (or similar)
Day 4: Explore the Old City & Fly to Cappadocia
Stop At: Hagia Sophia Mosque, Sultan Ahmet, Ayasofya MeydanI No:1, Istanbul 34122 Turkey
Today you start the tour with Hagia Sophia which is a Late Antique place of worship in Istanbul, designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles. Built in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial capital of Constantinople, it was the largest Christian church of the eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine Empire) and the Eastern Orthodox Church, except during the Latin Empire from 1204 to 1261, when it became the city’s Latin Catholic cathedral. In 1453, after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire, it was converted into a mosque. In 1935, the secular Turkish Republic established it as a museum. In 2020, it re-opened as a mosque.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Topkapi Palace, Cankurtaran Mahallesi Gulhane Park, Near Sultanahmet Square, Istanbul 34122 Turkey
After this magical Hagia Sophia tour, you are going to proceed to The Topkapı Palace which is a large museum in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Blue Mosque, Sultanahmet Mah At Meydani Cad No 7, Istanbul 34122 Turkey
After the Topkapi Palace, we are going to visit Blue Mosque which is called Sultan Ahmed Mosque as well. It will take just a few minutes walks from Topkapi Palace.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Hippodrome, Binbirdirek, Sultan Ahmet ParkI No:2, Istanbul Turkey
Hippodrome of Constantinople is a square just next to the blue mosque.
Previously, it was a circus that was the sporting and social center of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Grand Bazaar, Grand Bazaar, Istanbul
At the end of the tour, you will have time for shopping in the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, with 61 covered streets and over 4,000 shops on a total area of 30,700 m2, attracting between 250,000 and 400,000 visitors daily. In 2014, it was listed No.1 among the world’s most-visited tourist attractions with 91,250,000 annual visitors. The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is often regarded as one of the first shopping malls in the world.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Istanbul, Istanbul
After the tour, we will transfer you to the Istanbul airport and you will take your flight to Cappadocia. Upon your arrival, we will transfer you to your hotel.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight Cappadocia – Selcuklu Evi Cave Hotel (or similar)
Day 5: Explore Cappadocia
Stop At: Devrent Valley, Devrent Mevkii No:1 Urgup Yolu, 50500 Turkey
Devrent Valley (also spelled as Dervent Valley) reveals many different rock formations and is only a 10-minute drive from Goreme.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Pasabag, Urgup Turkey
Pasabag or Pasha’s Vineyard is situated on the Zelve road between the popular town of Goreme and traditional pottery-making town Avanos. Here you can find spectacular cone topped rock pillars known as Fairy Chimneys standing tall throughout the vineyard, Pasha was a in important officer in Ottoman times when the region was captured.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Goreme Open-Air Museum, Merkez, Muze Cd., Goreme 50180 Turkey
The Goreme Open-Air Museum resembles a vast monastic complex composed of scores of refectory monasteries placed side-by-side, each with its own fantastic church.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Uchisar Castle, Uchisar Turkey
Uchisar is situated at the highest point in Cappadocia, on the Nevsehir-Goreme road, just 5 km from Goreme. The top of the Uchisar Castle provides a magnificent panorama of the surrounding area with Mount Erciyes in the distance.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight Cappadocia – Selcuklu Evi Cave Hotel (or similar)
Day 6: Explore Cappadocia
Stop At: Red Valley, Nevsehir Ortahisar, Nevsehir 50650 Turkey
After having breakfast at the hotel, we will again depart for a full-day Cappadocia tour. Depart from your hotel to visit Red valley, and explore the famous rock-cut churches and hike 5 km through the Güllüdere valley.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Cavusin, Cavusin, Cappadocia
Then visit Cavusin village. This village is famous for the houses and churches of Christian clergymen.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Pigeon Valley, Uchisar KasabasI Nevşehir Kapadokya, Goreme 50240 Turkey
Pigeon Valley is a lovely valley located near Uchisar town named after the thousands of pigeon houses carved into the soft tufa since ancient times and offers another spectacular panoramic view over Cappadocia together with the spectacular views of the dovecotes.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Kaymakli Underground City, Derinkuyu Turkey
Kaymakli underground city is built under the hill known as the Citadel of Kaymakli and was opened to visitors in 1964. The people of Kaymakli (Enegup in Greek) village have constructed their houses around nearly one hundred tunnels of the underground city. The inhabitants of the region still use
Duration: 2 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight Cappadocia – Selcuklu Evi Cave Hotel (or similar)
Day 7: Cappadocia & Fly to Kusadasi
Pass By: Kusadasi, Kusadasi, Turkish Aegean Coast
Free half-day in Cappadocia. Afternoon you will be transferred to the airport to take your flight to Izmir.
Overnight Kusadasi
Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight Kusadasi – Efe Boutique Hotel (or similar)
Day 8: Explore Ephesus
Stop At: The Temple of Artemis, Ataturk, Park Ici Yolu No:12, Selcuk Turkey
The Temple of Artemis or Artemision, also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis (associated with Diana, a Roman goddess). It was located in Ephesus. It was completely rebuilt twice, once after a devastating flood and three hundred years later after an act of arson, and in its final form was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. By 401 AD it had been ruined or destroyed. Only foundations and fragments of the last temple remain at the site.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Ancient City of Ephesus, Selcuk 35920 Turkey
Ephesus was a city in ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of the former Arzawan capital by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists. During the Classical Greek era, it was one of twelve cities that were members of the Ionian League. The city came under the control of the Roman Republic in 129 BC.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Meryemana (The Virgin Mary’s House), Sultaniye Mahallesi, Selcuk 35100 Turkey
The House of the Virgin Mary is a Catholic shrine located on Mt. Koressos in the vicinity of Ephesus, 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) from Selçuk in Turkey.
Duration: 1 hour
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight Kusadasi – Efe Boutique Hotel (or similar)
Day 9: Explore Pergamon
Stop At: Pergamon Antik Kenti, Bergama Turkey
After breakfast tour to Pergamon which is one of the seven churches of revelation and famed for amazing temples in ancient times. You visit one of the oldest medical centers of history as well.
Duration: 7 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight Kusadasi – Efe Boutique Hotel (or similar)
Day 10: Explore Pamukkale
Stop At: Pamukkale, Pamukkale
After breakfast, you heading to the magnificent White calcium terraces, known as Cotton Castle (Pamukkale) where you also tour the ancient city of Hierapolis. This city was used in Roman times for its therapeutic powers. Today bring your swimsuit with you because you will have time to enjoy the thermal water of Pamukkale.
Duration: 7 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight Pamukkale
Day 11: Bodrum ( Halicarnassus )
Stop At: Bodrum City, Bodrum City, Bodrum District, Mugla Province, Turkish Aegean Coast
Today you travel to Bodrum. It is one of the most beautiful seaside towns in TURKEY. After 75 minutes drive you to visit the Castle of St.Jean & Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology.
Duration: 5 minutes
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight Bodrum
Day 12: Bodrum Boat Trip
Stop At: Bodrum City, Bodrum City, Bodrum District, Mugla Province, Turkish Aegean Coast
After breakfast get your swimsuits and suncream ready. Today you relax on a boat trip. You visit the beautiful coves of Bodrum.
Duration: 5 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight Bodrum
Day 13: Explore Bodrum & Depart From Turkey
Stop At: Bodrum Amphitheater, Bodrum City Turkey
Today you have a city tour of Bodrum. Visit the Ancient Theatre of Bodrum first.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Tepecik, Bodrum City Turkey
Then we are going to see the remainings Halicarnassus Mausoleum (one of the seven wonders of the ancient World)
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Bodrum City, Bodrum City, Bodrum District, Mugla Province, Turkish Aegean Coast
then we proceed to see the historical windmills of Bodrum.
Duration: 45 minutes
Pass By: Istanbul, Istanbul
After the tour, we say goodbye and transferred to the airport. Fly to Istanbul. End of the Turkey Tour.
Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.
