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08 Nights / 09 Days
Daily Tour
6 people
English
If you would like to see something different in your life and if you like cooking or want to learn how to cook, we offer you very special itinerary to learn very good Turkish cuisines along with smiling and friendly Turkish people. You can cook, taste and eat. The best tour in Turkey with culinary theme. Enjoy first class service and guided transportation through the historical and picturesque sites of Istanbul, battlefields of Gallipoli, the Trojan Horse of Troy and Pergamon that offers one of the Seven Churches of St John from the Bible before reaching the ancient city of Ephesus, the white calcium hot pools of Pamukkale and the underground cities of Cappadocia. There are no long bus rides just domestic flights getting you to your destination comfortably and relaxed.
Location/Countries Covered: Istanbul, Turkey
Unique package highlights : Turkish Cooking Lesson Istanbul, Gallipoli Tour – Cooking Lesson in Canakkale, Troy Tour – Pergamon – Kusadasi, Ephesus Tour and Sirince Village, Kusadasi – Pamukkale Tour – Cooking Lesson and Cappadocia Tour.
Tour Route : Istanbul – Gallipoli – Troy – Pergamon – Kusadasi – Ephesus – Pamukkale – Cappadocia – Istanbul.
(Welcome dinner included)
The Package Is Commissionable To All By 7%.
Welcome to Turkey, arrival into Istanbul. Transfer from airport and check in to your hotel, offers
a welcome drink and a chat with gourmet experts in Turkish cuisine. Tonight, you will have a
welcome dinner, be introduced to our friendly crew and other travelers while enjoying
traditional Turkish
(Breakfast included)
After a morning orientation, sightseeing tour of Istanbul, you participate in your first Turkish
cooking lesson: During our Istanbul cooking tour, you will taste various flavors of Turkey from
different regions, preparing lunch which you will enjoy! After lunch, we visit the grand TOPKAPI
PALACE. The great palace of the Ottoman sultans from the 15th to the 19th centuries housing an
exquisite collection of crystal, 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. SULTANAHMET IMPERIAL MOSQUE:
Across from St. Sophia
built in the 16th century by the architect Mehmet, is known as the BLUE MOSQUE because of its
magnificent interior decoration of blue Iznik tiles. HIPPODROME: Ancient Hippodrome, the
scene of chariot races, with the three monuments; the Obelisk of Theodosius, the bronze
Serpentine Column and the Column of Constantine. Overnight in Istanbul.
(Breakfast and Local Dinner included)
06:30 am, we depart for Gallipoli to visit the battlefields. Two hours later we will give you 20
minutes for relax in a restaurant area. We arrive Gallipoli around 12:00am and we have lunch
break, relax a little bit and then depart for the battle fields. 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, Shrapnel Valley and Plugges Plateau. After the tour, we drive
to your hotel. Today, you will taste the delicious cuisines of Western Turkey. The area is famous
for traditional “pide” and “lahmacun” with cheese and vegetables. Dinner and overnight in
Canakkale.
(Breakfast and Local Dinner included)
After breakfast, we depart for to Troy. Visit the famous archeological and mythological site of
Troy, home of the Trojan Horse and Helen’s city.
After Troy tour, we will drive to Pergamon.
after the lunch, we depart for tour of the magnificent acropolis of Pergamon. Its impressive
temples and library made it a renowned cultural and political center at that times. Pergamon is a
famous city for its jewelry, stones and silver. So on the way, we will visit a jewelry center for 30
minutes. Dinner and overnight in Kusadasi.
(Breakfast and Local Dinner included)
At 08:00 we depart for Pamukkale. We will check at the hotel around 12.00 and we have a lunch
break until 13.30. Afterwards we shall visit the calcium terraces of Pamukkale (cotton castle)
and the ruins of Hierapolis, then walk around this natural phenomenon and have the option of
lying in the waters of the natural springs. After Pamukkale tour, we will have a Central Turkish
cuisine lesson. Dinner and overnight in Kusadasi..
(Breakfast, Local Dinner included)
After breakfast, we depart for Izmir airport for our domestic flight to Cappadocia. Transfer from
Kayseri airport to your Cave hotel. The rest of the day is yours to explore Cappadocia. Dinner
and overnight in Cappadocia.
(Breakfast and dinner included)
After having had breakfast, participants will take part in the another cooking lesson in
Cappadocia. You will have the opportunity to taste great food of Central Turkey, including
pancakes and tasting kebab. In the afternoon, we visit Goreme Open Air Museum, the Heart of
Cappadocia. Goreme Open Air Museum is famous for frescoes dating to 10th century describing
the life of Jesus Christ and monks.
Next stop is Cavusin, which is an abandoned village with old
cave Greek houses, visit a pottery work shop, to see how to make potteries. Then you go
Pasabagi where you can see three - headed fairy chimneys. Dinner and overnight in Cappadocia.
(Breakfast included)
After breakfast, you will have free time shopping in Cappadocia. Today, we depart for Kayseri
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. Have a nice
trip back home and thanks for choosing Satguru Travel Turkey.
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