Turkey Highlights

6 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 1 dinner

There are some long travel days and some rough travelling in areas away from main tourist routes. Windy roads, rough surfaces and cramped conditions make for some challenging travel experiences. On some long travel days we depart early in the morning to ensure we optimise our time at our next destination. If you experience travel sickness we recommend you consider medication to help ease the discomfort.

Private Bus , Public Bus , Overnight Train , Plane

The style of accommodation indicated in the day-to-day itinerary is a guideline only and may change. On some occasions, alternative arrangements may need to be made due to the lack of availability of rooms in our preferred accommodation. In these cases, we will use a similar standard of accommodation.

Throughout the trip, we request that our properties prepare rooms in time for our arrival, especially if we're arriving prior to normal check-in time. However, this isn't always possible which means we won't be able to check-in immediately on arrival at some hotels. Instead, we can store our luggage and explore our new destination or on some trips, have use of shared day rooms until all rooms are available.

Hotel (6 nights), Overnight Train (1 night)

hotel: 6 night(s), sleeper-train: 1 night(s);

All group trips are accompanied by one of our group leaders. The aim of the group leader is to take the hassle out of your travels and to help you have the best trip possible. We endeavour to provide the services of an experienced leader however, due to the seasonality of travel, rare situations may arise where your leader is new to a particular region or training other group leaders.

Your leader will provide information on the places you are travelling through, offer suggestions for things to do and see, recommend great local eating venues, and introduce you to our local friends. You can expect them to have a broad general knowledge of the places visited on the trip.

In Turkey, in accordance with local regulations your Leader will also be a registered Guide with the Ministry of Tourism. They will have vast general knowledge of the places visited on the trip, specialized knowledge of the sites visited and provide full guiding services.

There is an internal flight on this trip and most internal flights in Turkey have a luggage restriction of 15kg checked and 8kg cabin.

*** All other flights are not included.

Istanbul - Old City Walking Tour (Half Day)

Gallipoli - Fully guided Gallipoli tour & visit to the Commonwealth graveyards

Sirince - Village visit and fruit wine tasting

Troy - Archaeological site visit

Selcuk - Leader-led orientation walk

Ephesus - Archaeological site visit

Selcuk - Artemis Temple Visit

Selcuk - Gozleme making demonstration and lunch

Cappadocia - Kaymakli Underground City

Konya - Mevlana Museum

Cappadocia - Valley walk

Cappadocia - Dinner at Local Family Home