Turkish Panorama / ID:23715
10 Days (Group Departure)
PRICE INCLUDES
- AKG TRAVEL AND TOURS Services: Travel by bus with an English-speaking guide, basic travel insurance, and breakfast buffet.
- Includes arrival transfer
- Boat: On the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Lycian tombs and lake in Dalyan.
- City tour in: Istanbul.
- Evening Transfer: Taksim Square in Istanbul.
- Ticket admission: Suleiman the Great Mosque and Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, house of the Virgin Mary, Basilica of St. John, Ruins of Ephesus, Roman theatre in Aspendos in Aspendo, Greek Temple of Apollo in Side, Tartan Evi in Karaman, Gumusler Monastery; Underground city of Kainacli; Goreme Valley; Uchisar in Nigde, Traditional tea in Safranbolu, Gokgol Magarasi cave, Caves and tombs in Eregli, Eydinpinar Waterfalls in Aydinpinar Waterfalls.
- Funicular: Cableway Viewpoint of Pierre Loti in Istanbul.
- 6 Lunch or Dinner Included in: Kusadasi, Marmaris, Antalya, Nigde, Capadocia, Safranbolu.
PRICE EXCLUDES
- Tips of personal nature and any additional meals, other than those specified in the itinerary.
- Any increase in Airfare, Airport taxes, Govt Taxes, Fuel Surcharges, and any applicability of new taxes from Govt.
- Any extra cost incurred on behalf of an individual due to illness, accident, hospitalization, or any personal emergency.
- Optional tours, if any.
- Cost of Air ticket deviation charges.
- Any up gradation in Airline class or hotel room category.
- Cost of pre or post-tour hotel accommodation.
- Anything which is not included in the tour cost inclusion.
PRICES PER PERSON
Rates Start from: 806€ / Person ★ |
Cancellation Policy:
- A cancellation charge of 50% of the tour cost will be applicable for the passengers canceling before 15 days of departure and 100 % of the tour cost will be levied as the cancellation charge for the cancellations within 15 days before the departure..
Important Notes:
- Please ensure you leave a copy of your passport, visa, travel insurance, and tour itinerary along with contact numbers (if not yours, of the tour Manager who is accompanying you), with family members back home.
- Holding a valid US/UK visa in an expired passport, you can travel with your current valid passport without having to obtain a visa again. You need to carry your old passport with you.
- Minimum 2 pages for each country. blank pages are required in the passport before travel.
- Minimum of 6 months beyond the intended date of return from the tour.
- You can carry a Currency of USD 3000 or equivalent and Forex Card of up to USD 10,000 or equivalent.
- All visa fee/s are non-refundable.
- Granting of Visa is at the sole discretion of the Consulate.
- After obtaining a visa if the trip is canceled due to a medical emergency or similar, Our cancellation policy applies.
- Entrance fees to various monuments/museums/parks included, all included, as per the itinerary.
- Internal flights/cruise/ferry/yacht cost, all included, as per the itinerary.
- Local food of the destination and Indian food included as per itinerary.
- Don’t leave valuables in the open. Like money, your cellphone, kindle, tablet, and passport should also not be bandied around or left out in the open for everyone to see. Don’t let the false sense of security of traveling in a group get the better of you. Again, pickpockets are tricksters and will use the group for some sort of distraction and go in for the valuables. Let’s look at it like this: you don’t want to be stuck in a foreign country without your passport.
- Don’t act as if you were at home. Another thing to research is the etiquette and customs of the places you are visiting, and while it can be very tempting, don’t act as if you are in your own home when traveling Europe in a big group. What might be normal in India could be offensive in Europe. And please respect spiritual or holy places! Screaming, laughing, and joking with a big group in an underground tomb in Greece is frowned upon. That kind of behavior is frowned upon in most places. Oftentimes when people travel in big groups of friends and family, they forget where they are. Don’t be those people.
- Do use alternatives to cash. There are many alternatives to using cash such as travelers' checks, special travel cards, and even credit cards. A small amount of cash is always recommended for small unexpected expenses but keep the big purchases on plastic.
- Don’t flash money around. Europe is notorious for pickpockets and small acts of opportunistic crimes. While you may not be used to worrying about things like that, avoid flashing money around, or making it super obvious where your money or cell phones are kept — pockets are a no-no. While traveling Europe in a group is generally perceived as being safe, a crowd can also be an obvious target and sometimes makes it easier for someone to hustle past on the way out of a train and grab your wallet without you realizing it because you were all distracted. In general, when dealing with money there should be a level of vigilance — when drawing and exchanging money too, and avoid any ATMs or money exchanges that look suspicious.
ITINERARY
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Day 01
FRI. Istanbul.-
Welcome to Europe!!! Upon arriving at the airport we will be waiting to transfer you to your hotel. You can enjoy free time until your tour starts. Please, check the informative posters placed at the hotel reception area which have all the information about your upcoming services such as meeting place, time, and the guide’s name.
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Day 02
SAT. Istanbul.-
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: Sightseeing tour. Cable car to Pierre Loti’s viewpoint. Topkapi Palace. Night transfer to Taksim.
A sightseeing tour of the city. We find ourselves in a city built in two continents. On our tour, we will include a cable car ride up to the Pierre loti viewpoint and we will enter the Mosque of Suleyman the Magnificent (the largest in Istanbul). We will see the walls, the Golden Horn, and the fishing district, and we will admire the exterior of Hagia Sofia. After the visit, we will offer tickets and a visit to the Top Kapi Palace, the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire, with its magnificent courtyards and pavilions.At the end of the afternoon, we will provide a transfer to the Taksim neighborhood, the most commercialized and lively area of the city. There will be time to dine in one of its many restaurants, and you can also take the old tram that crosses the area or go to see the nearby Galata Tower.
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Day 03
SUN. Istanbul.-
TODAY´S HIGHLIGHTS: Boat trip on the Bosphorus.
Today we include a boat trip on the Bosphorus that will last about two hours, exclusively for Europamundo travelers. The Bosphorus is a strait that connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara, separating Istanbul into the European and Asian parts. We will enjoy seeing the liveliness of the strait with its multitude of boats. We will pass under the two bridges that unite Europe and Asia and we will admire the palaces of the sultans, the typical wooden houses, and the Ottoman villas. Free time. -
Day 04
MON. Istanbul- Ephesus- Kusadasi.-
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:High-speed train. Arrival in the fantastic Cappadocia region. Dinner included.
We leave early from Istanbul. We continue the route through Turkey. Around lunchtime, we arrive at EPHESUS, the best preserved ancient city of Asia Minor; 2000 years ago it had a quarter of a million inhabitants. We will visit Saint John´s Basilica, and afterward, the house of the Virgin Mary and the archaeological site (tickets included). We then continue to KUSADASI, a popular coastal town with a lot of atmospheres, commercial life and a small castle. Dinner and accommodation. -
Day 05
TUE. Kusadasi- Bodrum- Marmaris.-
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:landscapes of spectacular shapes. Picturesque towns. Dinner included.
We leave for one of the natural wonders of Turkey, Lake BAFA. We continue to BODRUM, a very beautiful fortified city of Greek origin. You can visit its castle, stroll through its streets full of life and tourism or go around its sports marina. After lunch, we go on our way to MARMARIS, another very beautiful coastal tourist enclave with its castle, its marina and its fountains. Dinner and accommodation. -
Day 06
WED. Marmaris- Dalyan- Antalya.-
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:Contrasts of landscapes. Boat trip. Dinner included.
We leave for DALYAN, an incredible place by a navigable river. We include a two-hour boat trip to see LYCIA’S ROYAL TOMBS, and still on the boat, we go on to a large lake where we stop at the thermal springs. If you want, you can bathe in the warm waters or have a mud bath! Time for lunch in one of the numerous restaurants in DAYLAN by the river. Continuation to ANTALYA, we will make a brief visit to this coastal city of more than a million inhabitants, the door of Adrian, the Ottoman district and its great waterfall that falls straight into the sea. Dinner and accommodation. -
Day 07
THU. Antalya- Aspendos- Side- Karaman- Nigde.-
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:Contrast of the Anatolian region between the coast and the high mountains. Dinner included.
We leave Antalya for ASPENDOS, we visit the Roman theatre which many believe to be the best preserved in the world. After this in SIDE we can admire the Greek temple of Apollo by the sea. Time to stroll around the port and through its streets full of life. Amidst impressive countryside we cross the Taurus Mountains, their peaks of over 3,500 meters in height are snow- covered for a large part of the year. A stop in KARAMAN where we visit TARTAN EVI, an ancient Ottoman mansion. Continuation to the region of Cappadocia. NIGDE, dinner and accommodation.Note: Sometimes the Tartan Evi may be closed, in which case the visit would be replaced by another to a mansion of similar characteristics in Cappadocia.
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Day 08
FRI. Nigde- Cappadocia- Avanos.-
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: landscapes with spectacular shapes. Picturesque towns. Dinner included.
A full day in the fantastic region of CAPPADOCIA, with its lunar landscapes, its churches and troglodyte villages. We start by visiting GUMUSLER, an incredible seventh century underground monastery with maybe the best Byzantine frescoes in Turkey. In KAYMAKLI we will see the underground city that could house 30,000 people. We will visit the natural fortress of UCHISAR. After lunch, we will see the GOREME Valley with its open-air museum and its churches dug out of the rocks, entrance included. Hotel in AVANOS. Dinner included. -
Day 09
SAT. Avanos- Ankara- Safranbolu.-
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:Turkey´s changing landscapes as we get closer to the Black Sea. Traditional Turkish tea. Dinner included.
We have a fantastic day in the heart of Anatolia. We stop in ANKARA, where we leave a free time to walk around and have lunch in the thriving center of the city. We continue towards the north of Turkey. The landscapes become greener. SAFRANBOLU; arrival in this wonderful little city which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was an important stopping point on the caravan routes. In the courtyard of a magnificent old Caravanserai we will include a traditional Turkish tea. Dinner and accommodation. -
Day 10
SUN. Safranbolu- Gokgol Magarasi- Eregli- Eydinpinar- Istanbul.-
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: A green and rainy Turkey. Eydinpinar waterfalls.
Today, the leg of our trip follows the Black Sea and its verdant landscapes. In GOKGOL MAGARASI we provide entry tickets to this magnificent cave with its underground river and its multiple colors. In EREGLI, next to the Black Sea, we set aside time to have lunch. We also include a visit to its impressive Cehennemagzi Magarasi caves and tombs that are overflowing with mythology. On our way back to Istanbul, we stop to relax at EYDINPINAR, with a walk between its green paths to the waterfalls! Arrival in ISTANBUL at the end of the day.
End of our services. Please, check the time of your flight in case you might need an additional night.
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