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6 Day Special Package Tour to Western Turkey
offered by supplier M05425 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 7
day(s)
Group Size: 1
- 15
people
Destination(s):
Turkey
Specialty Categories:
Archeology/History
Season: January - December
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: No
Minimum Per Person Price: 700 Euro (EUR)
Maximum Per Person Price: 1000 Euro (EUR)
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Tour Itinerary:
Day 1:
- 18:00 Transfer to bus station.
- 20:00 Bus to Kusadasi.
Day 2:
- 07:00 Arrival at Kusadasi bus station, transfer to Pine Marina Hotel. Pine Marina Hotel: 105 rooms including 15 suite rooms with 230-bed capacity. 500 meters away from sea and all rooms with balcony and private bathroom, furnished with direct-dial telephone, TV, music, air-conditioning and central heating, hairdryer, mini-bar and safe-box. Swimming pool and children's pool, TV room, open car park 2 bars (pool + American bar), meeting room with 60-person capacity and two restaurants (service for 250 indoor, 250 outdoor).
- 09:00 Depart for visiting Ephesus, where the most complete ancient city has ever been excavated. Attractions during the Ephesus Tour include: Fountains of Polio Hadrian, Trojan temples of Domition and Hadrian Varius, Scholostica Baths, Brothel, Library of Celsius, Bouletorion and the Great Theater. After lunch in a traditional Turkish restaurant, a visit to the House of the Virgin Mary where she spent her last days. The Archaeological Museum of Ephesus and The Basilica of St. John are other places you can see in Ephesus.
- 16:45 End of the tour and return to your hotel.
- 19:30 Dinner at the hotel (served as an open buffet).
Day 3:
- 08:55 After breakfast, set out for a visit to Pergamum, which was one of the ancient world's major powers and centers of art. See the library which held 200,000 books, the Temples of Athena, Temple of Trojan, Altar of Zeus, the Gymnasium, the lower angora and the Red Basilica dedicated to the god, Serapis. After lunch, continue with a visit to the Archaeological and the Ethnographical Museum. Finally you will see Asclepium, which is the oldest hospital in the world and also known as "the Sanctuary of the Healing God."
- 16:30 End of the tour, drive back to your hotel.
- 19:30 Dinner at the hotel (served open buffet).
Day 4:
- 08:50 After breakfast visit Pirene which was one of the most active ports of the Ionian Federation. The grid-like system of the streets, introduced in the 4th century BC by Hippodromes of Millet, is a superb example of city planning. It is the only Greek city established on the arrangement of the Acropolis, boasting its famous theater. Continue on to Millet, passing white cotton fields. Millet was a great Ionian port, too, and it was the birth place of many philosophers and sages. The theater itself justifies a visit. After lunch, visit the great Temple of Apollo in Didyma.
- 16:30 End of the tour, return to hotel.
- 19:30 Dinner at the hotel.
Day 5: After breakfast, a free day to relax and enjoy the facilities of the hotel dinner at the usual hour.
Day 6:
- 08:30 After breakfast, tour Pamukkale, which means "cotton castle" in Turkish, and is a remarkable natural site that should not be missed. The castle has been fashioned from the naturally hot water, rich in calcium carbonate, that gushes out the mountain at a temperature of 53 degrees Celsius and flows towards the plain. The flow of this calcareous water down the mountain has sculpted a gigantic series of cup like turquoise pools, the sides of which are ribbed with startlingly white stalagmites.
After lunch, visit the ancient city of Hierapolis founded in 190 BC by Eumenes II, king of Pergamum. In 129 BC, Hierapolis was under Roman control and later it was destroyed by earthquakes. During your tour, it is also possible to see red water and swim in an ancient Roman Pool (Extra charge).
- 15:30 End of the tour and return to your hotel, the Pine Marina Kusadasi.
- 19:30 Dinner at the hotel (served open buffet).
Day 7:
- 10:30 Transfer to Izmir Airport.
- 12:00 Flight to Istanbul.
- 13:00 Arrival at Istanbul Airport.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Price Includes:
- OW Bus transportation to Kusadasi
- OW Flight to Istanbul, all transfers from bus station - hotel - airport
- 5 nights accommodation with breakfast and dinner
- 4 full days of sightseeing tours including lunch, English-speaking guide
- All admission fees and museum tickets, transportation.
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