21 Days Highlights of Turkey Private Tour Package

Our representative meets you at Istanbul Airport with a name sign and takes you to your hotel by private van.

After check-in the rest of the day is free to explore Istanbul on your own. Overnight in Istanbul.

*A member of our office team meets you on your first day to go through your tour details and hand over your documents. You can also make the balance payment to them.

Your guide meets you in your hotel lobby or at the cruise port to begin the Old City tour:

• Highlights of Topkapi Palace Museum
• Hippodrome / Sultanahmet Square
• Hagia Sophia
• Blue Mosque
• Grand Bazaar

At the end of the tour your guide accompanies you back to your hotel.

*If one of the mosques cannot be visited, the Basilica Cistern is visited instead.

Your guide meets you in your hotel lobby or at the cruise port to begin the Bosphorus tour:

• Spice Market
• Bosphorus Cruise: by public ferry between the European and Asian shores, passing Galata Tower, Dolmabahce Palace, Beylerbeyi Palace, Rumeli Fortress, old Ottoman mansions, the Bosphorus Bridge and waterfront mosques.
• Dolmabahce Palace
• Taksim Square
• Cicek Passage
• Istiklal Street

*Please let us know if you would prefer a private yacht for the Bosphorus cruise.

At the end of the tour your guide accompanies you back to your hotel.

Your guide meets you in your hotel lobby or at the cruise port to begin the Golden Horn tour. You will visit:

• Suleymaniye Mosque
• Fener
• Balat
• St. Stephen Church
• Pierre Loti Hill and the cable car (enjoy a Turkish coffee or tea with a view of the Golden Horn)
• Chora Church (Kariye Mosque)

After the tour you are transferred to Istanbul Airport for your flight to Denizli. Our representative meets you on arrival with a name sign and takes you to your Denizli hotel by private van. Overnight in Denizli.

At 9:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up for the Pamukkale tour, home to the natural calcium pools formed by thermal water. Your local guide tells you about the sites on the way.

You will visit:

• The calcium pools
• Necropolis
• Roman Baths
• Domitian Gate
• Latrina
• Frontinus Street
• Agora
• Byzantium Gate
• Triton Fountain
• Cathedral
• Temple of Apollo
• Plutonium (explained from outside because of ongoing excavations)
• Theater
• Hierapolis

(Optional, extra cost) If time allows, you can swim in the Cleopatra Pool.

After the tour your guide and driver take you to your hotel in Kusadasi. Overnight in Kusadasi.

At 9:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up for Pergamon and the Asclepion. You will visit:

• Pergamon Ancient City
• The Altar of Zeus
• The Acropolis
• The Asclepion

After the tour you are driven back to your hotel in Kusadasi. Overnight in Kusadasi.

Your guide picks you up from your Kusadasi hotel and introduces the history of Ephesus before you explore the ancient city. With your guide's explanations you will visit:

• Great Theater
• Celsus Library
• Temple of Hadrian
• Harbor Street
• Terrace Houses
• House of the Virgin Mary
• Isa Bey Mosque

After the tour you are transferred to Izmir Airport for your flight to Kayseri. Our representative meets you on arrival with a name sign and takes you to your Cappadocia hotel by private van. Overnight in Cappadocia.

Early in the morning you are picked up for a one-hour hot air balloon flight over the valleys of Cappadocia. After landing there is a small celebration in the valley and a flight certificate ceremony, and then you are taken back to your hotel for breakfast.

At 10:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up for the North Cappadocia tour, which includes:

• Uchisar Castle
• Goreme Open Air Museum
• Avanos
• Valley of Monks (Pasabag)
• Devrent Valley

After the tour your guide and driver drop you off at your hotel. Overnight in Cappadocia.

Your private guide and driver meet you at your hotel at 10:00 am for the South Cappadocia tour. With your guide's explanations you will visit:

• Kaymakli Underground City
• Rose Valley
• Love Valley
• Pigeon Valley
• Ortahisar Castle
• Mustafapasa (Sinasos)

After the tour your guide and driver drop you off at your hotel. Overnight in Cappadocia.

At 9:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up for a drive across Turkey's heartland, along the ancient Silk Road via Kayseri.

On the way you visit the Karatay Caravanserai before arriving in Adiyaman. Overnight in Adiyaman.

Your private guide and driver pick you up early in the morning to climb Mount Nemrut and watch the sunrise over Mesopotamia.

During the tour you visit:

• Mount Nemrut, a testament to the ancient kings' wish to live on after death
• The Ataturk Dam on the mighty Euphrates
• Sanliurfa, the ancient city of prophets such as Abraham, and its famous sacred pool

After the tour you are taken to your hotel. Overnight in Sanliurfa.

At 9:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up for the drive to the ongoing excavations at Gobeklitepe.

The day includes:

• Gobeklitepe
• Diyarbakir
• The ancient city walls of Diyarbakir, said to be the longest continuous defensive walls in the world after the Great Wall of China

Overnight in Diyarbakir.

At 9:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up for the drive from Diyarbakir to Mardin, set on a high hill above the plains of southeastern Anatolia.

During the tour you visit:

• Deyrulzafaran (the Saffron Monastery), once the seat of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate
• Hasankeyf on the Tigris River
• The town of Tatvan

Overnight in Tatvan.

At 9:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up for the drive to Van via Akdamar Island, where you visit:

• The Armenian Church of the Holy Cross (Surp Khach)
• The city of Van

Overnight in Van.

At 9:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up for a drive to the south. During the tour you visit:

• The Silk Road (Ipek Yolu)
• Hosap Castle
• The 3,000-year-old Citadel of Van
• Lake Van

Overnight in Van.

At 9:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up for the drive to Dogubayazit. The day includes:

• The city of Agri
• Muradiye and the Bendimahi Falls
• Ishak Pasha Palace
• Mount Ararat, with your guide's explanations

Overnight in Kars.

At 9:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up to spend the morning at Ani, the former capital of the great medieval Armenian kingdom.

You visit:

• The Citadel of Ani
• The mosque and the long, well-preserved defensive walls

Overnight in Kars.

At 9:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up to follow the Aras River west through the First World War battlefield of Sarikamis.

During the tour you visit:

• The Sarikamis region
• The Aras River
• Cobandede Bridge
• The city of Erzurum

Overnight in Erzurum.

At 9:00 am your private guide and driver pick you up for the drive from Erzurum to Trabzon.

On the way you see:

• The Pontic Alps
• The Karasu River
• Askale
• The Kop Pass
• The Coruh Valley
• Sumela Monastery, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and a monastic site since the 4th century AD
• Altindere Valley National Park

Overnight in Trabzon.

You are taken from your hotel to Trabzon Airport for your flight to Istanbul. Our representative meets you at Istanbul Airport with a name sign and takes you to your hotel by private van. Overnight in Istanbul.

A free day in Istanbul to explore the city at your own pace. You are transferred to Istanbul Airport in time for your international flight.

*If you would like to skip the last day in Istanbul, we can arrange your flights so that you connect directly to your international flight on arrival. Just let us know and we will adjust the programme to your flight schedule.

This is the end of our service. Thank you for travelling with us; we look forward to welcoming you again.