Private Western Turkey Tour

Day 1: Full Day Gallipoli Tour (L)

Around 6:30 in the morning, you will be picked up from the hotel for about a 5-hour bus ride to Gallipoli, for your full-day Gallipoli Tour.

We will stop to have breakfast on the way optionally. As soon as you arrive, following your lunch in a traditional restaurant, the highlights will be: Brighton Beach, Beach Cemetery (John Simpson’s Grave), ANZAC Cove, Ari Burnu (First ANZAC landing place), Lone Pine Cemetery (Australian memorial), Johnston’s Jolly (walk in the ANZAC trenches), View of Shrapnel Valley, Turkish Memorial, The Nek, and Walker’s Ridge, Chunuk Bair (Main New Zealand memorial).

At the end of your day, you will be taken to the ferry for Canakkale where you will spend your night.

Overnight in Canakkale.

Day 2: Full Day Troy and Pergamum Tour (B, L)

After breakfast and check-out from your hotel, you will be picked up to visit ancient Troy city.

You will see the genially made Trojan Horse and you will visit over 7 ancient cities built one on another, dating back to 3500 BC, passing through Apollo Temple, fortified city walls, battlefield where Hector and Achilles fought for power, Roman Theater – Greco-Roman Senate building roundly shaped that hosted deputies of democracy.

Following Troy, we will drive to Pergamum where you will have your lunch. After that, we will visit Pergamum Ancient City, home to many important libraries in the old times.

At the end of the tour, we will drive to Kusadasi to transfer you to your hotel for check-in.

You will spend the night in Kusadasi.

Day 3: Full Day Ephesus Tour (B, L)

Right after your breakfast, the full-day Ephesus Tour will start with a pick-up from your hotel.

Highlights we will visit: Temple of Artemis – considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Library of Celsus – while most libraries serve only the function of archiving books and documents, this one served as the final resting place of Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, in whose honor the library was built, Ephesus Ancient City – with its marvelous highlights, The House of Virgin Mary – is believed to be where she lived and died.

Also, we will see old theatres, hammams, passing through the harbor.

Day 4: Pamukkale Hierapolis Tour – Flight from Izmir to Istanbul (B, L)

Following your breakfast check-out from your hotel, we will pick you up to start your full-day Pamukkale and Hierapolis Tour.

Deriving from springs in a cliff almost 200 m high overlooking the plain, calcite-laden waters have created at Pamukkale (Cotton Palace) an unreal landscape, made up of mineral forests, petrified waterfalls, and a series of terraced basins. We will also visit a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hierapolis which is one of the sacred sites of Turkey, dates back thousands of years, also admire the white limestone terraces, known as travertines of Pamukkale.

We will see Necropolis – a large burial site generally it was located outside the settlement including the Sarcophagus of a general of Marcus Aurelius. You will a chance to swim in the famous Cleopatra Swimming Pool.

In the end, you will be transferred to the airplane terminal for a flight to Istanbul.

Upon your arrival in Istanbul, we will welcome and transfer you to your hotel.