16-Day Complete Turkey Tour Package with Cappadocia

After arrival at Istanbul Airport or Sabiha Gokcen Airport, our team will meet you and transfer you to your hotel. The remainder of the day is free.

Overnight stay in Istanbul

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

08:30 - Pick up from your hotel and transfer to the historic Sultanahmet district.

• Blue Mosque: The Blue Mosque is one of Istanbul's defining Ottoman landmarks, known for its domes, minarets and blue Iznik tiles.
• Hagia Sophia: Hagia Sophia shows Istanbul's layered Byzantine and Ottoman history through its vast dome, mosaics and monumental interior.
• Hippodrome: The Hippodrome was the ceremonial heart of Byzantine Constantinople and still frames important monuments in the Old City.
• Topkapi Palace and Harem: Topkapi Palace presents the Ottoman court through courtyards, treasury rooms and views over the Bosphorus.
• Grand Bazaar: The Grand Bazaar adds color, trade history and free time in one of Istanbul's most recognizable covered market areas.

17:00 - Transfer back to your hotel after the tour.

Overnight stay in Istanbul

Meal: Breakfast

Today is left open in Istanbul. Use it for neighborhood walks, museums, shopping, or rest before the southeastern section of the package begins.

Overnight stay in Istanbul

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

Pick up from your hotel and transfer to the airport for the flight to Diyarbakir. (Pickup time and airport may change.)

Flight from Istanbul to Diyarbakir. (Flight time may change.)

Arrival in Diyarbakir and transfer to begin the city program. (Arrival time may change according to availability.)

• Old City Walls: The old city walls show the defensive scale of Constantinople and add visual context before entering the historic center.
• Four-Legged Minaret and Hazrat Suleiman Mosque: Diyarbakir adds basalt city walls, old streets and Tigris River context to the eastern Turkey route.
• Diyarbakir Archaeological Museum and Ickale: Diyarbakir adds basalt city walls, old streets and Tigris River context to the eastern Turkey route.
• Surp Giragos Church, Great Mosque, Hasan Pasha Caravanserai, and 10 Arches Bridge: Diyarbakir adds basalt city walls, old streets and Tigris River context to the eastern Turkey route.

When the tour ends, you will be transferred to your hotel to take a rest.

Overnight stay in Diyarbakir

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

Pick up from your hotel and depart Diyarbakir by road toward Mardin.

• Midyat Old Town: Mardin adds stone architecture, monastery heritage and Mesopotamian views to the southeast chapter.
• Mardin Castle (exterior view): Mardin adds stone architecture, monastery heritage and Mesopotamian views to the southeast chapter.
• Deyrulzafaran Monastery and Great Mosque of Mardin: Mardin adds stone architecture, monastery heritage and Mesopotamian views to the southeast chapter.
• Local Bazaar and Abbara passages: The Grand Bazaar adds color, trade history and free time in one of Istanbul's most recognizable covered market areas.

Continue by road from Mardin to Sanliurfa.

Overnight stay in Sanliurfa

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

Pick up from your hotel for the most historically layered day of the entire journey.

• Gobeklitepe: Gobeklitepe is one of the world's most important prehistoric sites, with monumental T-shaped pillars that changed how early ritual life is understood.
• Harran and the Beehive Houses: Harran is known for beehive houses and ancient plains that connect Sanliurfa with deep Mesopotamian history.
• Balikligol (Pool of Abraham): Balikligol, the Pool of Abraham, gives Sanliurfa a sacred and atmospheric stop in the old city.

Transfer back to your hotel after the tour.

Overnight stay in Sanliurfa

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

Pick up from your hotel for the museums before departing Sanliurfa toward Gaziantep.

• Sanliurfa Archaeology Museum and Haleplibahce Mosaic Museum: Sanliurfa Archaeology Museum gives important context for Gobeklitepe and the wider prehistoric landscape of the region.
• Zeugma Mosaic Museum: Zeugma Mosaic Museum gives Gaziantep a powerful cultural stop with Roman mosaics preserved in exceptional detail.
• Gaziantep Old Town, Castle Exterior, and Baklava Culture: Gaziantep closes the southeast section with mosaic heritage, bazaar atmosphere and one of Turkey's strongest food cultures.

When the tour ends, you will be transferred to your hotel to take a rest.

Overnight stay in Gaziantep

Meal: Breakfast

After breakfast, depart Gaziantep and continue by road toward Cappadocia. This is the natural bridge day between the southeastern cities and central Anatolia.

Overnight stay in Cappadocia

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

09:30 - Pick up from your hotel.

• Red Valley: Red Valley is known for warm volcanic colors, walking paths and layered rock walls that make south Cappadocia especially photogenic.
• Rose Valley (Gulludere Valley): Rose Valley, also called Gulludere, combines pink-toned cliffs with rock-cut churches and quiet walking sections.
• Cavusin Village: Cavusin is an old cave village where abandoned rock houses and cliff churches show the lived history of Cappadocia.
• Pigeon Valley: Pigeon Valley is named after carved dovecotes in the cliffs and gives one of Cappadocia's most familiar valley views.
• Underground City: The underground city reveals tunnels, storage rooms, ventilation shafts and defense passages used by local communities for protection.

17:00 - Transfer back to your hotel after the tour.

Overnight stay in Cappadocia

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

09:30 - Pick up from your hotel for the second Cappadocia touring day along the classic north route.

• Devrent Valley (Pink Valley): Devrent Valley introduces Cappadocia through animal-shaped fairy chimneys and wide volcanic forms that make the landscape feel almost imagined.
• Pasabag Open Air Museum: Pasabag is one of the best places to see Cappadocia's multi-headed fairy chimneys and the cave cells once used by hermit monks.
• Avanos Pottery Workshop: Avanos adds a cultural stop to the valley route, showing how red river clay is shaped in local pottery workshops.
• Goreme Panoramic View: Goreme panoramic viewpoints help you read the scale of Cappadocia, with cave settlements, valleys and volcanic ridges visible together.
• Zelve Open Air Museum: Zelve preserves a former cave village spread across several valleys, with carved rooms, tunnels and churches that show daily life in the rocks.
• Uchisar Castle (exterior view): Uchisar Castle is Cappadocia's highest natural viewpoint and shows how defensive and domestic spaces were carved into one rock mass.

17:00 - Transfer back to your hotel after the tour.

Overnight stay in Cappadocia

Meal: Breakfast

After breakfast, transfer to the airport for the domestic flight to Izmir.

Flight from Cappadocia to Izmir. (Flight time may change and it can also be a connected flight depending on flight availability.)

On arrival at Izmir Airport, your driver will meet you at the exit.

Continue to your hotel in Kusadasi/Selcuk.

Overnight stay in Kusadasi/Selcuk

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

07:30 - Pick up from your hotel for the full-day drive to Pamukkale.

• Pamukkale: Pamukkale is famous for white travertine terraces formed by mineral-rich thermal water flowing down the hillside.
• White Calcium Terraces: The white calcium terraces are the signature view of Pamukkale, where shallow mineral pools step down the slope like a natural staircase.
• Hierapolis Ancient City: Hierapolis rises above the travertines with Roman streets, baths, theatre remains and a long sacred thermal tradition.
• Cleopatra Antique Thermal Pool: Cleopatra Antique Pool is visited inside the Pamukkale area; entering the area is included, while swimming among ancient columns is extra on-site.

16:00 - Transfer back to your hotel in Kusadasi/Selcuk after the tour.

Overnight stay in Kusadasi/Selcuk

Meal: Breakfast & Lunch

08:45 - Pick up from your hotel for the morning Ephesus program.

• Ephesus Ancient City: Ephesus Ancient City preserves marble streets, temples, theatres and civic buildings from one of the great cities of the Roman world.
• House of Virgin Mary: The House of Virgin Mary is a quiet pilgrimage site on the mountain above Ephesus, visited for both its religious meaning and setting.
• Temple of Artemis: The Temple of Artemis was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and explains why Ephesus once mattered far beyond the region.

17:00 - Transfer to Izmir airport for your evening flight to Istanbul. (Flight time may change.)

19:55 - Fly to Istanbul from Izmir.

21:00 - Arrival in Istanbul and transfer to your hotel. (Arrival time may change according to availability.)

Overnight stay in Istanbul

Meal: Breakfast

This day is free in Istanbul. It works well for neighborhoods, shopping, museums, or simply slowing the rhythm after the long cross-country section.

Overnight stay in Istanbul

Meal: Breakfast

The morning remains open.

13:30 - Transfer to the pier for the Bosphorus cruise.

From the water, the route closes with palaces, shoreline mosques, bridges, and mansion-lined neighborhoods that show Istanbul at a lighter pace than the Old City days.

17:00 - The Bosphorus cruise ends and you return to your hotel.

Overnight stay in Istanbul

Meal: Breakfast

According to your international flight details, we will arrange your hotel transfer to Istanbul Airport or Sabiha Gokcen Airport. Your 16-day journey across Turkey comes to an end.