10-day fully escorted Turkey package tour, exploring all major attractions on the Aegean coast of Turkey and central Anatolia. Highlighting Istanbul, Gallipoli, Troy, Pergamum, Ephesus, Pamukkale, Silk Road, Konya, Cappadocia and also Ankara. Magic Carpet tour includes accommodation in hotels, sightseeing tours, as well as an expert guide, meals and also land/airport transports.
This is a guided escorted group tour starts from Istanbul every Saturday. Extra days & tours can be added in Istanbul before or after. If you would like to combine this tour with other destinations just let us know.
Plan your trip to Turkey
After landing in Istanbul you’re greeted by your driver guide and transferred to the hotel in the heart of the city. Check in to your hotel and enjoy the rest of the day at your leisure in Istanbul.
Overnight: Istanbul
Optional Add-On | Bosphorus Dinner Cruise
Following your first breakfast in Turkey, you’ll enjoy a tour of Istanbul old city. Visit the Blue Mosque, St Sophia Museum, Byzantine Hippodrome, Obelisk and also Topkapi Palace (excluding Harem). Tour will finish with a visit to the dazzling Grand Bazaar, where you’ll hunt for local treasures. Evening is at leisure.
Overnight: Istanbul | Meal: Breakfast included.
Leaving Istanbul behind, we will proceed to Canakkale, one of the most emotionally touching places in Turkey. Here will visit the WWI Battlefields of Gallipoli including Lone Pine and Chunuk Bair Memorials, ANZAC Cove, Johnston’s Jolly, original trenches and tunnels, The Nek and the Gallipoli Museum. Then across the Dardanelles Strait by ferryboat to Canakkale, where hotel is located.
Overnight: Canakkale | Meals: Breakfast and dinner included.
This morning we will visit the Ancient Troy and see the current excavations. Your tour guide will be escorting you through 9 layers of old cities, the Trojan Horse and the remaining of the Trojan War. Then proceed to the magnificent acropolis of Pergamum. Its impressive temples and library made Pergamum a renowned cultural and political centre in its time. Finally, we will arrive in Kusadasi at late evening for overnight stay.
Overnight: Kusadasi | Meals: Breakfast and dinner included.
Begin the tour at the House of Virgin Mary, where she spent her final years. Explore the marble white ancient city of Ephesus, with spectacular monuments such as the Library of Celsus, Agora, Odeon, Trajan Fountain, Hadrian’s Gate, Domitianus Temple, Theater and Roman Latrines. After lunch, visit the Temple of Artemis and Isabey Mosque. As carpet weaving has long traditions in Turkey, we will visit a carpet village and learn how the carpets are made by hand and what determines their value.
Overnight: Kusadasi | Meals: Breakfast and dinner included.
This morning you’ll enjoy a display of locally handcrafted leather goods, before heading to Pamukkale. Drive to Pamukkale or ‘Cotton Castle’. Following lunch break, visit the ancient Roman City ruins of Hierapolis. Explore the magnificently preserved Necropolis, Avenue of Tombs, Gates, Thermal Baths, Devil’s Hole and also the Masterpiece Theater. Free time for Cleopatra’s pool.
Overnight: Pamukkale | Meals: Breakfast and dinner included.
As the sun casts amber tones on the lime terraces you head off towards Cappadocia, the next base for your Turkey adventure. Drive via Konya city, where Seljuk architecture and an air of serenity radiate through the streets. You’ll visit the famous Mevlana Museum, where ancient copies of the Koran are housed in the original home of the city’s whirling dervishes. Proceed to Cappadocia via Sultanhani Caravansary and along the way. This evening will offer you the unique opportunity to sleep in a traditional Cappadocian cave hotel.
Overnight: Cappadocia | Meals: Breakfast and dinner included.
In the morning section of the tour, you will explore Devrent and Monk’s Valley, to see the extraordinary mushroom-shaped rock pinnacles or ‘fairy chimneys’. Continue on to the small village of Avanos, famous for clay pottery design. After lunch, proceed to the Goreme Open Air Museum, featuring the most impressive rock-carved churches and Byzantine frescoes in all Cappadocia. Finally visit the Kaymakli Underground City, which hid local Christians from Arab invaders.
Overnight: Cappadocia | Meals: Breakfast and dinner included.
Optional Add-On | Hot-Air Balloon Tour in Cappadocia
After early breakfast and departure, we will proceed to Istanbul via Ankara. Ankara is the nation’s capital, and visit Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Arrival to Istanbul will be in the late evening.
Overnight: Istanbul | Meals: Breakfast included.
After a beautiful breakfast it’s time to bid farewell to Turkey. Your driver will transfer you to the airport for your international departure. Now it’s your chance to export the beauty of Turkish history and culture everyone back home.
Meals: Breakfast included.
2 nights in Istanbul at (4*) Port Bosphorus Hotel with breakfasts.
1 night in Canakkale at (Special Class) MD Barbaros Hotel with breakfast and dinner.
2 nights in Kusadasi at (Boutique) Ilayda Advangarte with breakfasts and dinner.
1 night in Pamukkale at (5*) Adem Pira Hotel with breakfast and dinner.
2 nights in Cappadocia at Gamirasu Cave Hotel with breakfast and dinner.
1 night in Istanbul at (4*) Port Bosphorus Hotel with breakfast.
Professional English-speaking tour guide, main entrance fees to sights mentioned in the itinerary, transportation with fully air conditioned non-smoking deluxe coach, inbound and outbound airport transfers.
Car ferry fees between Canakkale and Eceabat.
Taxes and handling services.
