Istanbul, Cappadocia and Black Sea

Flight from your hometown to Istanbul International Airport. *

Welcome.Transfer to the hotel and free time. In the afternoon you will receive information for the start of the circuit through the information posters located at the hotel reception.

* The client may choose to take the flight included in the package or buy and book it on their own.

Panoramic tour of the city, we are in a city built on two continents. On our tour we will enter the Suleyman the Magnificent Mosque (the largest in Istanbul), we will see the walls, the golden horn, the fishermen's quarter and we will admire the exterior of Hagia Sophia.

Al At the end of the afternoon we will provide a transfer to the Taksim neighborhood, the most commercial area with the most local life in the city. Time to dine in one of its many restaurants, you can also take the old tram that crosses the area or go to the nearby Galata Tower.

Early in the morning we will include the entrance and visit to the Topkapi Palace, which was the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire with its magnificent courtyards and pavilions.

After that, we will take a boat ride along the Bosphorus for about two hours. The Bosphorus is a strait that connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara, separating Istanbul into two parts: the European and the Asian. We will enjoy watching the animation of the strait with all its ships, we will pass under the two bridges that connect Europe and Asia and we will admire the palaces of the sultans, the typical wooden houses, the Ottoman villas.

We will disembark on the Asian side and we will have time to walk through the Uskudar neighborhood, with its great mosques, where Yemi Valide, the tower of the maiden and its quiet streets. Time for lunch. In the afternoon we continue our route towards the Anatolian peninsula. Arrival in ANKARA, dinner included and accommodation.

After breakfast we include visit of Ankara, the cosmopolitan capital of Turkey, with more than 5 million inhabitants and a lot of cultural life with its performing arts center, which houses the Ballet and the State Opera , the Presidential Symphony Orchestra and many national theater companies. We will visit the impressive Ataturk Mausoleum, the powerful Ankara castle, whose first construction was 8 centuries before Christ. We also include entry to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations which allows us to understand the different cultures that left their mark on Turkey. At the end of the morning, we will stop at a large commercial mall so that in your food court you can choose the type of food that you like the most.

After lunch time we continue towards the region of Cappadocia, en route we will stop next to SALT LAKE, with its incredible landscapes and visit HACIBEKTAS, with the utmost respect for pilgrims (appropriate clothing and silence suggested during the visit). This sanctuary houses the tomb of Hacibecktas, a 13th century Sufi mystic. Continuation to NEVSHEIR -dinner and accommodation-.

Full day in the fantastic region of CAPADOCIA, with its lunar landscapes, its churches and troglodyte villages. We get to know the GOREME Valley (entrance included) with its open-air museum and its churches carved into the rocks. We will visit UCHISAR, a natural fortress. In KAIMACLI we will see the underground city that could house 30,000 people. Returning to Avanos, we stop at PASABAG, the valley of the fairies and we will walk in this spectacular natural enclosure. Free time and dinner included.

We have a fantastic day in the interior of Anatolia traveling to the north of the country where the landscapes turn green. SAFRANBOLU, arrival in the early afternoon to visit this wonderful small city declared a World Heritage Site that was an important stage on the caravan routes. In the courtyard of a magnificent old Caravanserail we will include atraditional Turkish tea. Dinnerand accommodation.