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Included Highlights
- Topkapi Palace
- Grand Bazaar, world’s largest and oldest covered market.
- Anzac Cove at Gallipoli.
- Ancient city of Troy.
- Ephesus and House of Virgin Mary.
- Famous Greek Islands: Rhodes, Santorini and Mykonos.
- Acropolis with its breathtaking view in Athens.
- Parthenon in Athens.
- Lunch with locals.
Upon arrival, you will be greeted and transferred to your hotel. Welcome briefing.
Meal: No Meal
Enjoy a full-day tour including a visit to Topkapi Palace Museum, the residence of the Ottoman Sultans between 1453–1852 (excluding Harem). Visit the Hippodrome, once the centre of life where chariot racing and other public events took place. Tour the Blue Mosque, built between 1609 and 1616, famous for its blue ceramic tiles. An optional visit to St. Sophia, a church built in the 6th century Byzantine capital, converted to a mosque by the Ottomans, still functioning as a mosque today and one of the world’s greatest architectural wonders. Your last stop is the Grand Bazaar. Join an optional dinner with belly dancing entertainment.
Meal: Breakfast
Depart for Gallipoli, the site of many battles during WWI. Visit Anzac Cove, Lone Pine Cemetery, and Chunuk Bair, then overnight in Canakkale.
Meal: Breakfast and Dinner
Visit Troy with its famous wooden horse, best known for being the setting of the Trojan War and many cities built on top of each other. Before arriving at Asklepion, enjoy lunch with locals in a traditional local village. Continue to Pergamum to visit the ancient Medical Centre in Asklepion and then continue to Izmir for overnight.
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
Tour the famous ruins of Ephesus, an important cultural centre of the ancient world, and explore 2,000 -year-old marble streets, a theatre, the Library of Celsius, a gymnasium, and Hadrian’s Temple. Take a short drive to see St. Mary’s stone cottage where it is believed Virgin Mary spent her last years accompanied by St. John. Continue to a regional rug production centre to have a first hand experience of this unique art form. Overnight at the hotel in Izmir.
Meal: Breakfast
After breakfast, drive to Bodrum to visit the castle of St. Peter and the renowned Underwater Museum that was awarded the best Underwater Museum of the World in the 2000s. Overnight in Bodrum.
Meal: Breakfast
After breakfast, depart for Marmaris. Overnight in Marmaris
Meal: Breakfast
Morning transfer to port for hydrofoil trip to Rhodes, Greece. Arrive and
transfer to hotel for overnight.
Meal: Breakfast
A day of leisure; you may visit Old Rhodes or taken an optional tour to Lindos
Meal: Breakfast
Transfer to the airport for a flight to Santorini. Arrival and transfer to your
hotel for overnight.
Meal: Breakfast
A free day to visit one of the many villages of Santorini, perched on top of the volcano, or enjoy a sun-soaked afternoon on the beach
Meal: Breakfast
Transfer to the pier for a hydrofoil or ferry ride to Mykonos. Arrival and
transfer for your hotel. Enjoy the nightlife of Mykonos.
Meal: Breakfast
Explore the many beaches of Mykonos and absorb the ambiance of this Cycladic
Meal: Breakfast
Morning is free. Board on a ferry to Athens. Arriva and transfer to your hotel. Enjoy an Optional dinner with folklore dancing, or visit the quaint Plaka area.
Meal: Breakfast
Tour Athens’ famed Acropolis with its breathtaking view and renowned Parthenon, followed by a visit to the Acropolis Museum. On your own, explore the Plaka with its open-air taverns and traditional shops.
Meal: Breakfast
A representative escorts you to the airport for the flight home.
Meal: Breakfast
- Deluxe or Superior First Class hotels.
- Meals are indicated on itineraries by B breakfast, L lunch, D dinner.
- Licensed guides throughout Turkey.
- Private air-conditioned transportation
- Small group departure limited to 22 Travelers.
- Luggage handling.
- Local taxes and service charges.
- Arrival/departure transfers: only on arrival and departure days (arrivals to Istanbul Airport).
Pre or post stay transfers are not included.
- Hydrofoil ticket from Santorini to Mykonos and Mykonos to Piraeus.
- Athens city tour.
International / Domestic Airfare.
Optional trips.
Other meals, drinks, Customary tips to guide and drivers and other personal expenses or services not specified on the program.
Travel insurance.
Gratuities.
Voluntary tips for guides or drivers.
Travel and medical insurance.
Any items not mentioned as included.
Pre or post stay transfers are not included.
Flight from Rhodes to Santorini
Hotel Details
Istanbul - Autograph Collecton Burdock
Canakkale - Double Tree by Hilton
Izmir - Swiss - Grand Ephesus
Bodrum - The Marmara - SLH Hotel
Marmaris - Elite World
Rhodes - Semiramis City
Santorini - El Greco
Mykonos - San Marco
Athens - Royal Olympic