Istanbul – Gallipoli – Troy – Pergamon – Kusadasi – Ephesus – flight to Istanbul
6 Days Turkey Magic Road Trip includes Turkey’s important tourist sites, including many UNESCO World Heritage sites. The old historical city of Istanbul, Helen of Troy, an inspiring historical tour at Pergamon Ancient City, discover and visit the highlights of magnificent Ancient Ephesus City, stay at Kusadasi which is one of the most unique touristic city in Europe. We cover all Turkey’s natural and historical highlights with our 6 Days Turkey Magic Road Trip for our guests. By joining this tour, you will collect very special travel memories. Our 6 Days Turkey Magic Road Trip program is guaranteed departure road trip and it will depart on the specified dates.
On the day of our arrival in Istanbul, we have airport transfer service from Istanbul Airport between 08:00 and 22:00 at night. We will transfer you, from hotel to the airport you have booked with us. Overnight in Istanbul.
Note: If you are coming from a different airpot and the mentioned timings above, please contact us.
Today, we will travel the beautiful parts of Istanbul, which is included in our Turkey Road Trip Package, with a peofesional guide. After breakfast, we will pick you up from your hotel and start the tour between 8:30 and 9:00, depending on the regions of the hotels you are staying. If you bought your hotel independently, we will meet you at the meeting point at the time we announced you in. We will start our tour in Istanbul, the Capital of Europe in 2010, from the HIPPODROME. Ancient Hippodrome was the scene of chariot races, with the three monuments; the Obelisk of Theodosius, the bronze Serpentine Column and the Column of Constantine. Then we will visit SULTANAHMET IMPERIAL MOSQUE. Across from Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, it was builted in the 16th century by the architect Mehmet, is known as the BLUE MOSQUE because of its magnificent interior decoration of blue Iznik tiles. Our next stop will be HAGIA SOPHIA GRAND MOSQUE. The Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, previously known as the Church of Divine Wisdom, is simply the best of its kind! It is the greatest surviving sample of Byzantine Architecture. For 1000 years, it was once the largest church in the world, decorated with stunning 6th century golden mosaics. Today it is a mosque. Lunch break at 13:00 pm. After the lunch, TravelShop Group will take you to the ASIL EFENDI which is a unique atmosphere with reasonable prices for your shopping. Here you will find; Exotic Spices and Herbs, Turkish Baklava, Turkish Delights, Turkish Coffee, nuts and fruits, small souvenirs such as Ceramic Handicrafts, Evil Eyes totems, all naturel olive oil, soaps and many other goods in Souvenir Shops and stores. We will drop you off at the hotel after the Istanbul City Tour around 17:00, and we will drop our guests who booked their hotel independently at the tour meeting point.
OPTIONAL DINNER CRUISE ON THE BOSPHORUS TOUR: Tonight Between 19:30 to 23:30 we have an optional Entertaining Dinner Cruise program on the Bosphorus, where Europe and Asia are connected. You will spend an unforgettable night on the Bosphorus with dinner, unlimited local alcoholic and non-alcoholic & soft drinks, belly dance shows, Turkish Folklore shows, DJ Performance and great entertainment on Bosphorus Dinner Cruise. End of the entertainment at about midnight 00:00 am, transfer to your hotel. Overnight in Istanbul.
Please Note: Please do not forget to carry headscarf with you for the visit of religious places as Blue Mosque & Haghia Sophia Mosque.
We will have an approximate 4 hour bus journey early in the morning. We will pick you up from your hotel between 6:00 and 6:30 in the morning according to the hotel you stayed in, on the time as our teammates informed you in advance. Along the Road Trip we will pass from the Marmara Region to the Aegean Region, and you will follow the magnificent natural views that the Marmara Region offers along the route. After 2 hours on the road, we will take a 20 minutes break and then continue. We will take a one-hour lunch break at one of the most beautifuls restaurants of Eceabat which is famous with local meatballs. Then we will optionally go on a 2 hour Gallipoli Tour. Those who do not want to join the Gallipoli Tour can stay at the restaurant for 2 hours or go for shopping or visit Eceabat, one of the most beautifiul towns of Çanakkale. Place to be visited by our guests who join the Gallipoli Tour: Visit Gabatepe Museum. Start visiting the fields with Ariburnu Cemetery and Anzac Cove because these are the places where the war had started. Then Beach Cemetery, Lone Pine and Chunuck Bair. We will finish the Gallipoli Tour, which will take approximately 2 hours, and meet with our guests who choose to stay at the meeting point, and go to Çanakkale by ship. We will drop off our guests to their hotels, and they will be able to go to their own hotels by leaving them at the meetin point we have determined for our guests who do not reserve their hotel through us. Our accommodatiton will be in Çanakkale – Güzelyalı Region.
This morning we will have a Troy road trip that lasts approximately 30 minutes. In the morning, we will pick you up from your hotel between 8:30 and 9:00 depending on the hotel you are staying at, and our other valuable guests who did not book their hotel through us will be able to join in the tour at the point where our vehicle is parked. When we come to Troy, we will stop at a nice restaurant, and we will have a tour of approximately 1 and half hours with our guests who join the optional tour. Places to visit on our tour: Visit the famous archeological and mythological site of Troy, home of the Trojan Horse and Helen of Troy. After our one and a half hour Troy Tour is over, we will back to the restaurant to meet with our guests who did not participate the tour, and continue to Pergamon Road Trip for about 3 hours. We will arrive in Pergamon at around 13:00 and have lunch in a nice restaurant about an hour. After that, we will have an optional two hours Pergamon Tour. Those who take the Pergamon Tour with our guide and our vehicle will make their visits. And our guests who do not join the optional tour can spend time in the restaurant or shops in the city of Bergama.
Places to visit on Pergama Tour: Visit the magnificent Acropolis of Pergamon which is famous for the impressive temples and library that makes it the cultural and political center of its time. After our Pergamo, we will meet at our meeting point and take a short shopping break with our guests who did not participate in our tour. Pergamon is a famous city with its jewellery, stones and silver goods. So on the way, we will visit a jewellery center for 30 minutes. After the Pergamon Tour, we continue our Kuşadasi Road Trip Program. Along the route, the magnificent natural views of the Aegean Region will accompany us. We arrive in Kusadasi at about 18:00 and drop our guests off their hotels. Our other guests who did not book their hotels through us will be dropped at the point where our vehicle is parked. They may get help from our teammates for their hotel transfers. Overnight in Kusadasi.
Today’s Ephesus and Sirince Tours are included in the program of all our guests participating in the Road Trip. We pick you up from your hotel between 8:30 and 9:00 in the morning, and we will pick up our guests who have not booked their hotel through our system, from the hotel where our vehicle is staying at 8:30. And then we will be on Ephesus & Srirince Road Trip. Our itinerary for the day: Fully guided tour of Ephesus, one of the best-preserved ancient sites in the world, visiting the Temple of Artemis, Curetes street, famous Roman baths, Celsus Library and Grand theatre. Lunch break around 13:00 pm. After lunch, we will visit a place, which continues to perform one of the oldest arts of Turkey; the carpet-weaving before the visit of another very special Turkish Village; Sirince. Sirince’s construction style today belongs to Anatolian Greeks. The houses on the slope are all original with their white colours. Sirince Village also has a fantastic reputation for making some of the best wines in Turkey – especially fruit wines. We will see the vineyards and it is time to learn how to make fruit wine. In the evening, you will be tested about your knowledge of making fruit wine. On the way, we will visit one of the famous leather production centers of the region, where you will have the opportunity to get a good factory rate. On this guided tour, you will avoid from nagging and bullying that may be occurred in some markets of Turkey. Enabling you to enjoy the shopping experience whilst gaining the knowledge of the ancient craftsmen. We will come to Kusadasi after our tour ends at about 17:30. We will drop off our guests who have bought a hotel through our system to their hotel, and our guests who have not purchased a hotel through our system will drop off at the hotel where our vehicle is staying, and they will make their own transfers. They can get help from our teammates for hotel transfer. Overnight in Kusadasi.
(Breakfast included)
Today we depart for Izmir airport for our domestic flight to Istanbul and then back to home. We hope your tour was a memorable one and we would like to see you in the future in one of our tours again. This domestic Flight is optional and we can give you the best avalible options according to your International Departure flight with best prices. Have a nice trip back home and thanks for choosing us.
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