5 nights & 6 days

Istanbul – Cappadocia

Trip Inclusions

1. 05 nights hotel accommodation
2. All tours mentioned below (including entrance fees, taxes & professional guiding) 
3. All airport transfers required to complete the program 

Recommended Itinerary

Day 01 Arrival

Arrive IST/SAW airport & transfer to hotel. vernight stay in istanbul.

Day 02  Byzantine Hippodrome - Blue Mosque - Grand Bazaar 

After breakfast, full day Istanbul city tour with lunch. (Approx. 08:00-09:00 pick up drop to hotel 04:00-05:00) 07-08 hour tour.Our shuttle will pick you up from hotel or from cruise port drop off back at the end of the tour.You will visit the following sights with an experienced and licensed professional tour guide with this tour.

Byzantine Hippodrome The former center for entertainment, sports and political activities in the city during the Roman and Byzantine Empires. You will be able to see the Obelisk from Egypt, Serpentine Column from Delphi and fountain of Willhelm II.

Blue Mosque One of the biggest mosques of Istanbul from 17th century architecture is one of the principal adornments on the skyline of Istanbul. Also famous for its blue tiles and 6 minarest.

Grand Bazaar The oldest and the largest covered market place in the World with nearly 4.000 shops fuul of rich collections of carpets, jewellery, leather, and souvenirs.

Topkapi Palace The great palace of the Ottoman sultans from the 15th to the 19th centuries housing an exquisite collection of cyrstal, silver, and Chinese porcelain, robes worn by the sultans and their families, the famous jewels of the Imperial Treasury, miniatures, the Holy Mantle; enshrining relics of the Prophet Mohammed.

* Treasury and Harem sections in Topkapi Palace are not included in the program and are due to extra entry.

Sultans Tombs There are five tombs of Ottoman Sultans within the graveyard at St. Sophia. The ceramic panels are the most beautiful examples of the 16th century with purple, green, blue, and red flower motives. Prince robes and a small piece from the Kaaba covers are displayed on the sarcophaguses.

Transfer to hotel and overnight stay in Istanbul.

Topkapi Palace is closed on Tuesday and this tour will be replaced with the Two Continents Tour on Tuesday.Grand Bazaar is closed on Sundays.

Day 03  Bosphorus Tour - Beylerbeyi Palace - Bosphorus Bridge 

After breakfast, full day Bosphorus tour with lunch (pick up at 08:00-08:30 am and drop off 05:00-05:30 pm). Our shuttle will pick you up from hotel or from cruise port drop off back at the end of the tour.

You will visit the following sights with an experienced and licensed professional tour guide with this tour.Spice Bazaar (Egyptian Bazaar) : The air here is filled with the enticing aromas of various spices cinnamon, caraway, saffron, mint, thyme and every other concievable herb and spice. Shops selling spices, fruits, vegetables, flowers, turkish delights etc..

Bosphorus Tour on Boat  A traditional excursion by boat along the waterway seperating Europe and Asia. The shore is lined with old wooden villas, palaces of marble, fortresses, and small fishing villages. During the excursion you will pass the magnificent Dolmabahce Palace, and further along, the parks and imperial pavillions of Yildiz Palace. On the coastal edge of this park, is Ciragan Palace, 300 meters of is marble facade faces the shore. At Ortakoy a great variety of artists gather every Sunday to display their work along the street. Ortakoy is a symbol of tolerance with a church, a mosque and a synagogue existing side by side for centuries. .

Beylerbeyi Palace  The summer residence of Ottoman Sultans with its original furniture and magnificent gardens with the Harem on the Asian.

Bosphorus Bridge Unique chance to step from one continent (ASIA) to another (EUROPE)

Camlica Hill  The highest point in Istanbul. At the top of it you can rest and admire the magnificent panorama of Istanbul and the Bosphorus from the beautiful gardens, landscaped in traditional style.

Closed : Beylerbeyi Palace closed on Monday and Thursday, will be replaced by Chora Museum. Overnight stay in istanbul.

Day 04  Stay in Cappadocia.

After breakfast, transfer to airport for flight to ASR (not included in the package cost). Transfer to hotel.Overnight stay in Cappadocia.

Day 05  Derinkuyu Underground City - Ihlara Valley - Selime Monastry 

After breakfast, full day Cappadocia south tour with lunch on pvt.(approx. 09:30-10:00 pick up drop to hotel 05:00-05:30) 07-08 hour tour.Our shuttle will pick you up from hotel & drop off back at the end of the tour.You will visit the following sights with an experienced and licensed professional tour guide with this tour.

South Cappadocia Tour also known as Green Tour at Lonely Planet's recommendations, is a great itinerary which covers all highlights of the South Cappadocia. When combined with North Cappadocia Tour at second day, two tours would cover all Cappadocia's highlights.

Derinkuyu Underground City Derinkuyu is Cappadocia's biggest underground with approximately 7 floors and 85m deep. It contains all the usual rooms found in an underground city (stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, churches, wineries etc). Apart from these, a large room with a barrel-vaulted ceiling on the second floor was a missionary school, the rooms to the left being study rooms. From the 3rd and 4th floors onwards the descent is by way of vertical staircases, which lead to a cruciform plan church on the lowest floor. The 55m deep ventilation shaft was also used as a well. Not every floor was provided with surface access in order to protect the dwellers from poisoning during raids. Derinkuyu Underground City was opened to visitors in 1965 but so far only 10% can be visited.

Ihlara Valley  Trek Early Christians have constructed their rock houses and temples by carving the tuffs in the valley of Ihlara, through the valley runs the Melendiz River. The waters of the river are named Ihlara as Peristrema meaning "The people of circulating waters". To search the source of the water in Ihlara, is in fact trying to reveal the meaning of life. It takes 2 1/2hrs to walk from the Ihlara Vadisi to Belisirma and about 3hrs to walk from Belisirma to Selime.Belisirma and lunch. After walking through Ihlara Valley you will be driven to Belisirma for a smorgasbord lunch, a mixture of Turkish and Western food including dessert.

Pigeon Valley You will stop on the outskirts of Goreme village and look down into Pigeon Valley to see the centuries old pigeon houses carved from the cliffs. Throughout the years farmers have used pigeon manure as a rich source of fertiliser for their crops..

Selime Monastry Selime Monastery is an astonishing rock cut structure incorporating a vast kitchen and soaring chimney. A church with a gallery all around it, stables with feeding troughs and other evidence of the troglodyte lifestyle.

Goreme Esentepe (Panaromic View) The magnificent landscape around Goreme has been formed from its solidified lava streams, its ash and tuff stone, all dating from the Neocene period. A result of thousands of years of continual erosion makes this area look like a lunar landscape. The fairy chimneys also have a great colour variety. There are light and dark colours from white to yellow, pink, grey and black.The tour ends around 16:30 /17:00, Drop of to hotels.

Overnight stay in Cappadocia.

Day 06 Departure

After breakfast, transfer to airport for flight to Istanbul (not included in the package cost). Arrive & catch the home bound flight.

Per person cost in INR

Exclusions

1. Any domestic or international flights
2. 5% GST extra if you want GST bill
3. Expenses of personal nature like tipping, laundry, telephone/fax calls, alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverages, camera/video camera fee at monuments, medical expenses, airport departure tax, any insurance etc.
4. Any meals other than the mentioned above.
5. Entrance fees as not mention in itinerary
6. Any other services not mentioned in the inclusions.
7. Any Insurance
8. City Tax / Tourism Dirham / Resort Fee /Reservation Directly paid @ hotel
9. Any visa cost

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