Turkey and Greece Tour -II-
You can extend your stay during your booking.
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You can extend your stay during your booking.
Istanbul to Athens or vice versa
Flexible

Welcome to Istanbul! You will be transferred to your hotel 4**** and the remainder of the day is yours, free to explore. Overnight: Istanbul Yiğitalp 4**** or similar Meals: N/A
After breakfast, stroll through Sogukcesme Street with typical wooden house which are now landmark buildings of ottoman architecture. Arrive to Topkapi Palace, the largest and oldest of the remaining palaces where Ottoman Sultans used to live; admire the gardens, kitchens, the treasury section as well as terraces overlooking the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn. Photo stop at the Fountain of Sultan Ahmet the 3rd and explore Saint Sophia, the masterpiece of Byzantine architecture dating back to the VIth century. After lunch, visit the Blue Mosque covered by more than 20.000 Iznik tiles and continue with the Roman Hippodrome where the char races used to take place. Discover the handcrafts of Anatolia and shop in the labyrinth tunnels of the Grand Bazaar.
Explore the Spice Market to feel the exotism of the Orient. Enjoy a languorous boat trip along the European and Asian coasts of the Bosphorus. Enjoy a fish lunch under the Galata Bridge with stunning views over the silhouette of the Old City. In the afternoon transfer to airport for your onward flight to Denizli. Upon arrival, transfer to Pamukkale and overnight. Meals: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner
Breakfast and free morning to profi thot springs thermal waters at the hotel. Visit Pamukkale popularly known as the ‘cotton castle’. Here, immense tiers of white limestone cascading down a barren hillside you will enjoy the beauty of the terraces. After lunch visit Hierapolis, including the magnificently preserved Necropolis, the main Street and Gates, the thermal Baths, the devil’s hole, and Masterpiece Theater.Continuation to Kuşadası for overnight Meals: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner
Explore Ephesus antique city by wandering along its 2,000 year old marble streets to such famous sites as the theatre and the Celsus Library. In the afternoon, visit the home of the Virgin Mary and a photo stop nearby the Temple of Artemis where only a column remains to indicate where one of the Seven Wonders of the World was. Overnight: Kuşadası Meals: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner
Breakfast and transfer to İzmir Airport for Athens. Upon arrival to Athens transfer to your city centered hotel in Athens. The rest of the day free. Overnight: Athens Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast we will meet you at your hotel or close by, in order to start the morning Half Day Athens Sightseeing Tour. This tour gives you an opportunity to observe the striking contrasts that make Athens such a fascinating city. Our expert guides will take you to see the Panathenaic Stadium, home to the first Olympic Games of the modern era, where we will make a short stop. As we continue our trip, we will pass by the Prime Minister’s residence (ex Royal Palace), guarded by the Evzones in their colorful uniform, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Hadrian’s Arch, the Parliament and memorial to the Unknown Soldier, the Academy of Athens, the University, the National Library and the Constitution Square (Syntagma).
One cannot take a tour of Athens without visiting the Acropolis, one of the world’s most prominent sites and a symbol for democracy in the Western world! It is there that you will explore architectural masterpieces of the Golden Age of Pericles. From the Propylaea, to the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion and of course the Parthenon, a place where ‘there is harmony between material and spirit’, a the monument that ‘restores order in the mind’, as ancient Greeks used to say. Your last stop will be the modern Acropolis Museum, with nearly 4,000 exhibits of Hellenism housed inside.
Early morning transfer by motor coach from the center of Athens to the port to embark on the cruise ship in order to start the full day cruise to the 3 beautiful Islands of Hydra, Poros and Aegina, which are nearby Athens (lunch on board is included). Return to port in the evening and transfer back to your hotel in Athens.
You will be met by our assistant at your hotel and transferred to the airport by our minibus or taxi driver for your departure flight.We booked this trip as it was the second time we visited Turkey. We already saw Cappadocia. The trip gave us the opportunity to visit more Istambul and Ephesus and Pamukale and it was just absolutely remarkable. Both guides in Turkey and Greece were great and provided us great information on each site that we visited but perhaps more importantly for me she offered information on Greek life and the Greek people that was not available in the guide books.
My wife and I were happy on this trip.
Wonderful! Our tour guide, Ali did an excellent job. He was always warm and available for questions and very knowledgeable. The hotels are very good and better than I expected. Tourism industry in Turkey seems to be successful.
Thank you for this great trip!
