Get ready for an amazing 12-day Turkey holiday package! Explore the fascinating history, vibrant culture, and delicious cuisine of Turkey. You’ll even enjoy a traditional gulet cruise along the beautiful turquoise Mediterranean coastline. The trip starts and ends in Istanbul, ensuring a seamless and unforgettable experience. Join us on this incredible journey!
This is a sample itinerary for inspiration. Your personalized Turkey tour package will be created individually by one of our travel specialists to match your interests, dates, and special requests. All in minutes…
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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
Join on regular group tour (private guided available on request) to explore some of the most important sights in the historical Sultanahmet area. 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.
Overnight: Istanbul | Meals: Breakfast and lunch included.
This morning start the tour with a visit to the bustling Spice Market – a colorful bazaar heaped with various sweets and spices. Then take a relaxing Bosphorus Cruise between the continents of Europe and Asia, during which you’ll have views of various historical sights that line its shores. After cruise drive through the Bosphorous Bridge and stop at Camlica Hill for panoramic views over Istanbul. Finally, stop at the Dolmabahce Palace for interior visit.
Overnight: Istanbul | Meals: Breakfast and lunch included.
Pick up from your hotel after breakfast to visit Ephesus. 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.
Overnight: Kusadasi | Meals: Breakfast and lunch included.
Pick up at your hotel. 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. There will be also some free time for Cleopatra’s pool.
Overnight: Pamukkale | Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included.
After breakfast & check-out, you will be driven to Marmaris with a private vehicle. Embarkation starts at 15:30. Dinner will be served onboard and first night will be spend in Marmaris Harbour.
Overnight: On-Board Gulet | Meals: Breakfast and dinner included.
After breakfast you will be informed about the cruise itinerary and boat. The cruise will move to the beautiful Ekincik Gulf for the overnight stay. Here, you may join an optional Dalyan excursion. Participants will be taken from the yacht with a smaller boat called ‘Piyade’, which will bring you into the green delta of Dalyan. You will see the Lycian Rock Tombs and have a swimming stop at Caretta-Caretta beach. Also, there will be a mud bath occasion on this trip.
Overnight: On Board | Meals : Breakfast, lunch and dinner included.
Because of the wavy seas of Disibilmez and Kurtoglu capes, we will cruise earlier than the other days and reach the world-famous Gocek Gulf. Breakfast and swimming break will be given at Sunken Bath, which is also known as Cleopatra Bay. Then we will continue our cruising to Tersane Island. This naturally protected harbor was used as a shipyard in Byzantine and Ottoman times.
Overnight: On Board | Meals : Breakfast, lunch and dinner included.
After breakfast, we will cruise to Kizil Island for lunch and a swimming break. On the fourth day of our cruise, we will arrive in Fethiye Harbour around 16:00 p.m. Following disembarkation, you will be transferred to your hotel in Fethiye with your evening at leisure.
Overnight: Fethiye | Meals: Breakfast and lunch included.
Day will be at leisure to swim, catch some sun, relax at Oludeniz beach or head into town for some great cafe’s, bars and shopping.
Overnight: Fethiye | Meal: Breakfast included.
Optional Add-On | Tandem Paragliding in Oludeniz
Optional Add-On | Jeep Safari Tour
You will be transferred to Dalaman airport for the afternoon flight to Istanbul. Balance of the day will be at leisure in Istanbul.
Overnight: Istanbul | Meal: 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.
Meal: Breakfast included.
Hotel accommodation in the category of your choice.
4-days Gulet cruise from Marmaris to Fethiye, including full board meals.
Sightseeing tours on regular group basis (private basis on request).
Licensed tour guide assistance during the sightseeing tours.
Main entrance fees to all sites visited per the itinerary.
Meals where shown in the itinerary.
Deluxe a/c vehicles during the tours and airport transfers.
Domestic land/air transport between each destination.
Taxes and handling service.
24×7 support during your trip.
