AEGEAN HIGHLIGHTS

 ISTANBUL – BURSA – BERGAMA – KUSADASI – EPHESUS – PAMUKKALE – ISTANBUL

DAY 1: ARRIVAL AT ISTANBUL’S ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (IST), RECEPTION AND ASSISTANCE WITH AIRPORT FORMALITIES. TRANSFER TO HOTEL. DINNER AND OVERNIGHT.

DAY 2: IN THE MORNING DEPARTURE FOR SPECIAL TOUR (HAGIA SOPHIA, TOPKAPI PALACE, BLUE MOSQUE, CHORA CHURCH, AND HIPPODROME). LUNCH INCLUDING TOUR. DINNER AND OVERNIGHT.

DAY 3: IN THE MORNING, DEPARTURE FOR BURSA, CROSSING THE SEA MARMARA BY FERRYBOAT. A BRIEF TOUR OF BURSA, AT THE FIRST CAPITAL OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, INCLUDING VISITS OF THE GREEN MOSQUE, THE GREEN MAUSOLEUM, THE GRAND MOSQUE. LUNCH IN BURSA. DINNER AND OVERNIGHT IN BURSA.

DAY 4: IN THE MORNING DEPARTURE FOR BERGAMA. VISIT TO THE ANCIENT CITY OF PEGAMUM NEARBY FEATURING THE ASCLEPIUM SANCTUARY, ONE OF THE FOREMOST MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ANTIQUITY; THE ACROPOLIS SHELTERING NUMEROUS SPLENDORS SUCH AS THE ALTAR OF ZEUS; THE TEMPLE OF TRAJAN AND THE STEEPEST AMPHITHEATER IN THE WORLD. LUNCH IN BERGAMA. DINNER AND OVERNIGHT IN KUSADASI.

DAY 5: AFTER THE BREAKFAST VISIT OF THE EPHESUS, THE WORLD FAMOUS ANTIQUE CITY INCLUDING THE ODEON, THE TEMPLE OF THE HADRIAN, THE THEATRE WHICH IS THE IN ASIA MINOR THE CELSUS LIBRARY, THE MARBLE STREET AND THE MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY, FOLLOWED BY A VISIT TO THE BASILICA OF SAINT JOHN. LUNCH IN SELCUK. VISIT VIRGIN MARY HOUSE. DRIVE TO KUSADASI DINNER AND OVERNIGHT

DAY 6: IN THE MORNING DEPARTURE FOR VISITING APHRODISIAS, AN ANTIQUE CITY WHICH HAS WELL PRESERVED MONUMENTS: THE ODEON, THE TEMPLE OF APHRODITE, THE STADIUM AND THE THEATRE. LUNCH AND DRIVE TO PAMUKKALE. ARRIVAL AND VISIT OF THE RUINS OF HIERAPOLIS, A ROMAN SPA FAMOUS ALSO FOR ITS VAST NECROPOLIS FOLLOWED BY SOME FREE TIME FOR BATHING IN THE WARM WATERS OF PAMUKKALE DINNER AND OVERNIGHT PAMUKKALE.

DAY 7: IN THE MORNING DEPARTURE FOR ISTANBUL. LUNCH ON THE WAY. DINNER AND OVERNIGHT IN ISTANBUL.

DAY 8: TRANSFER TO THE AIRPORT YOUR FLIGHT HOME.