FULL PACKAGE LUXURY TOUR OF TURKEY -8 DAYS

You will be picked up from your hotel by the professional tour guide of VİENTO TRAVEL at around 09:00 to visit the Byzantine and Ottoman Artifacts in the Sultanahmet area. Since the historical sites and historical buildings to see in our tour are within walking distance, they are done on foot. In the morning you will visit Topkapi Palace (Harem section extra), Basilica Cistern (Underground Water Palace), and Roman Hippodrome. Lunch will be served at a nice local restaurant. After lunch, you will see Hagia Sophia Museum, Blue Mosque, Old Ottoman Cemetery, and Çemberlitaş (Burnt Column). The tour ends with free time at the Grand Bazaar at approximately 16.30. The Grand Bazaar is the most famous historical shopping center in Istanbul with around 4,000 stores. You will be advised by your guide to return to your hotel on your own. Accommodation in Istanbul. (breakfast at the hotel, lunch on tour)

Please note that Topkapi Palace is closed on Tuesdays and the Grand Bazaar is closed on Sundays.

We pick up our valued guests from your hotel at around 09:00 and start the day with a visit to the historical Dolmabahçe Palace, where the Ottoman sultans lived. From 1856, when it was first settled, to 1922, it was the home of six sultans. The construction of the palace cost five million Ottoman Mecidiye gold coins, equivalent to 35 tons of gold. The design incorporates eclectic elements from the Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. The Museum-Palace has gilded ceilings, crystal staircases, and the world's largest collection of Bohemian and Baccarat Crystal Chandeliers. After completing our Dolmabahçe Palace tour, we take you to a public boat for a 2-hour Bosphorus tour. The Bosphorus is a 33 km long strait and is a natural border between Asia and Europe. The boat will go up to the narrowest point where Rumeli and Anadolu Hisarı are located. During the cruise, you will see the most impressive views of the Bosphorus, including the Çırağan Palace, Maiden's Tower, Bosphorus bridges, Rumeli and Anatolian castles, and million-dollar seaside mansions. Lunch is served at a nice local restaurant. In the afternoon you will visit Istiklal Street and the Pera Neighborhood, full of music shops, bookstores, cinemas, cafes, restaurants, and bars. You will also visit the Galata Tower, which offers magnificent views of the Old City and Pera districts. At the end of the tour, our vehicle will drop you off at your hotel to rest. accommodation in Istanbul. (breakfast at the hotel, lunch on tour).

Please note that Dolmabahce Palace is closed on Mondays and Thursdays.

Viento Travel 's private vehicle and professional tour guide will pick you up from your hotel at around 08:30 and take you to the Süleymaniye Mosque, the imperial mosque of the Ottoman Empire, built by Mimar Sinan. Our second stop after the Süleymaniye Mosque is the Chora Church Museum, a small but impressive building dating from the 11th century and unique in its Christian frescoes and mosaics. We will take a tea & coffee break on Pierre Loti Hill, where you can see all the beauty of the Golden Horn from a bird's eye view. The tour will continue with a short boat tour on the Golden Horn. Lunch will be served at a nice local restaurant. After lunch, you will visit the Spice Bazaar (Egyptian Bazaar), the city's most popular place for spices, Turkish delights and coffee. At the end of the tour, you will be transferred to the airport for an afternoon flight to Kayseri. You will be met on arrival and transferred to your hotel in Cappadocia. Accommodation in Cappadocia. (breakfast at the hotel, lunch on the tour)

For the North Cappadocia Tour, you will be picked up from your hotel around 09:30 with the professional guide and comfortable vehicle of  Viento Travel.

In our Northern Cappadocia Tour, you will visit Esentepe, a hillside with a magnificent view of the Goreme Valley, and take pictures of the magnificent landscapes made up of lava and enjoy our tour to the fullest. Afterwards, you will visit Paşabağ (Monks Valley), whose chimneys are considered to be the best in Cappadocia, and discover these historical beauties with our professional tour guide. You will visit a chapel dedicated to Simeon and some small cave settlements. Carved and used by monks a thousand years ago, then admire the Devrent Valley, where mushroom-shaped peaks cover the slopes.

In the continuation of our tour, we go to Avanos, the pottery town where Turkey's longest river, Kızıl Irmak (Red River), passes. You will participate in the pottery making demonstration and even have a pleasant time making your own earthen pots. We will take a lunch break for a buffet lunch at a local restaurant before visiting the UNESCO-listed Göreme Open Air Museum, which is famous for its chapels carved into the rocks covered with Byzantine frescoes. Next, you will visit the beautifully painted chapels and take unique photos. We guarantee that you will be amazed by the numerous cave churches and monasteries with their richly frescoed walls painted by Orthodox Priests around 1000-1200 AD.

Towards the end of our Northern Cappadocia Tour , we will visit Uçhisar Castle . Uçhisar Castle is a large rock formation with interconnected rooms, tunnels and tuff-carved passages, located at the highest point and offering magnificent panoramic views. There are also several Roman tombs cut from tuff scattered in the nearby area. At the end of our tour, we will drop you off at your hotel to rest with our private vehicle.

Before starting our Northern Cappadocia Tour, we recommend our balloon tour, which is a unique experience. You can find the opportunity to watch all the beauty of Cappadocia in the balloons that are launched in the air at the first light of the day. After our balloon tour, we will drop you off at your hotel for breakfast.

For our Northern Cappadocia tour, our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel at around 09:30 in our luxury vehicle. Our next visit is to the Christian and Greek village of Çavuşin. We will have our lunch in the unique Pigeon Valley with its small niches carved into the rocks. Cappadocia has many underground cities that its inhabitants use to escape from their enemies, and Kaymaklı Underground City is among the most famous. You will also visit Ortahisar Natural Rock Castle, which offers a beautiful view of the valley. Our tour will end at this point and we will drop you off at your hotel.

We will transfer you, our valued guests, to the airport for an early flight to Izmir with our private vehicle. On your arrival, you will be transferred to the ancient city of Ephesus, Turkey's most magnificent ancient city, and a visit time of approximately 2 hours is required. The next visit is to the House of the Virgin Mary, where she spent the last years of her life and is believed to be buried there. After lunch, you will visit other important places to see in the region: The Ephesus Museum, where objects discovered in Ephesus are exhibited, the Temple of Artemis (Diana), one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, St. John Castle. The Church ruins on the top of Ayasoluk Hill and the Isa Bey Mosque, an important building belonging to Turkish heritage. When our tour is over, we will drop you off at your hotel in Kusadasi for your overnight stay (lunch is included in our tour).

For our last tour in our program, Viento Travel's private transfer vehicle will pick you up from the hotel at around 08:30 and take you to the ancient city of Aphrodisias, the famous sculpture school and the center of ancient Asia Minor. The Aphrodisias Museum is one of the rares where the artifacts unearthed during the museum excavations of the Ancient City of Aphrodisias are exhibited and the Museum and the Ruins are intertwined. Prehistoric artifacts from the Chalcolithic Period, early, middle and late periods of the Bronze Age, Lydian ceramics, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic artifacts from these mounds and around the Temple of Aphrodite, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic artifacts unearthed from the excavations in the Acropolis Tepe and Pekmez Tepe mounds within the site of the ruins, in the small artifacts hall. Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic period artifacts unearthed during excavations at the site are exhibited. We arrive in Pamukkale at lunch time. Pamukkale is famous for the white colored rocks formed by thermal waters containing calcium bicarbonate. The ancient city of Hierapolis in the area was a famous healing center, and hotels in the area are still reserved for thermal water pools today. The Roman Pool (Cleopatra Pool) is still in use. You can use the ancient pool yourself by paying the entrance fee to the site. (10 Euros per person. Please keep your towels and slippers with you) After the tour, you will be transferred to Denizli Airport to fly to Istanbul in the early evening. You will be greeted by Viento Travel staff and transferred to your hotel. We will drop you off at your hotel in Istanbul to rest. (breakfast at the hotel, lunch on the tour)