Summer Maujilo Turkey With SOTC Holidays

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Summer Maujilo TurkeyStarting _at_ INR 1,67,125
?Istanbul (2N)?Cappadocia. (2N)?Antalya (2N)?Pamuk
kale (1N)?Kusadasi (2N)?Istanbul (1N)?
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Highlights of the Package

• Istanbul  Gelata Tower  Vialand Theme Park 
  Dinner Cruise with Belly Dance  Sea Life
  Aquarium  Guided city tour with Blue Mosque 
  Sofia Hagia  Topkapi Palace 
• Cappadocia  Suggested Hot Air Balloon Ride 
  Visit Red Valley  Camel Rock  Pigeon
  Valley  Uchisar Village and Citadel 
  Goreme Open Air Museum  Kaymakli Underground
  City  Turkish Night with Dervish Show

• Antalya  City of Konya en-route  Visit
  Mevlana Museum in Konya  Perge Excavations
• Pamukkale  Visit the Hierapolis Thermal
  Terraces
• Kusadasi  Visit the Ephesus Excavations

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Day Wise Itinerary for Summer Maujilo Turkey
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Day 1

• Arrive into IstanbulWelcome to Istanbul. On
  arrival, your Tour Manager / Local Representative
  will be waiting outside the customs area.
  After lunch visit the Gelata Tower - one of the
  highest and oldest towers of Istanbul. At 63
  meter (206 feet) this tower provides a panoramic
  view of the old town. Tonight, enjoy the ride
  of Bosphorus Cruise, through the waterway
  separating the two continents, Europe and Asia.
  Enjoy dinner on board the cruise prepared by your
  chef as you get entertained by a Belly
  Dance performance on board. Overnight in
  Istanbul. (L, D)
• B - Breakfast L - Lunch  PL - Packed Lunch
  D - Dinner

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Day 2

• Visit Vialand Theme Park. Sealife Aquarium. Free
  time for shopping Today, visit the Vialand Theme
  Park - Turkeys first Theme Park. Enjoy an
  adrenaline kick, a shopping fix and
  non-stop entertainment with an action-packed day
  out at Vialand theme park, including admission
  tickets and round-trip transport from Istanbul.
  With a theme park, shopping mall and
  entertainment complex, theres no chance of being
  bored at Vialand. Test your nerves on the Breath
  Taker rollercoaster, treat the kids to a cruise
  down the lazy river, then max out your credit
  card at shops like Armani, HM and Tommy
  Hilfiger. Thats not all theres also a
  multiplex cinema, bowling alley and food
  court.Later, visit Sealife Aquarium - one of the
  biggest aquariums in Europe. Its more than 10,000
  fish of 1000 different species within 40 exhibits
  takes you through different sea
  environments, ranging from the Deep Mediterranean
  and Docks and Piers to The Great Barrier and
  Dangerous Sea Creatures.Today, you also have some
  free time for shopping at the Forum Istanbul
  Mall. Overnight in Istanbul. (B, L, D)

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Day 3

• Fly to Cappadocia. See the Red Valley, Pigeon
  Valley Camel RockToday, proceed to the airport
  for your flight to Cappadocia. Here, visit the
  Red Valley - one of the most spectacular
  valleys of Cappadocia with its different kind of
  rock formations in variety colors, the Pigeon
  Valley it got its name because of all the pigeon
  houses which have been carved into the
  mountain. You really need to see this in order to
  believe it because there really is that many of
  them and the Camel Rock an imagination valley
  of which Camel Rock is a part, tests your
  imagination when it comes to associate rock
  shapes with animals or other things. Tonight
  enjoy a Turkish Night with Dervish Show
  Belly Dance. Overnight in Cappadocia. (B, L, D)

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Day 4

• Suggested Early morning Hot Air Balloon and Tour
  of Devrent ValleyThis morning, you can opt for a
  40 minute Hot Air Balloon Ride. Highly
  experienced pilots will take you for a
  memorable flight through and over the valleys.
  After breakfast visit the Devrent Valley - is
  also known as Imaginary Valley and also as Pink
  Valley. The small fairy chimneys in the valley
  form a lunar landscape, or moonscape, by their
  strange look. Visit the village of Uchisar -
  situated at the highest point in
  Cappadocia. Visit the Citadel and from the top of
  the Uchisar Castle, enjoy a magnificent panorama
  of the surrounding area with Mount Erciyes in the
  distance. Later visit The Goreme
  Open-Air Museum, it resembles a vast monastic
  complex composed of scores of refectory
  monasteries placed side-by-side, each with its
  own fantastic church. Visit the Kaymakli
  underground city. Built under the hill known as
  the Citadel of Kaymakli the people of Kaymakli
  (Enegup in Greek) village have constructed
  their houses around nearly one hundred tunnels of
  the underground city. Overnight in Cappadocia.
  (B, L, D)

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Day 5

• On to Antalya. Visit Konya en-routeToday, drive
  towards Antalya. En route visit Konya - located
  on the ancient Silk Road. Here visit the
  Mausoleum of Mevlana, the worldwide famous
  mystic. Today, enjoya vegetarian packed lunch.
  Later, drive to Antalya - a Turkish resort city
  with a yacht-filled Old Harbor and beaches
  flanked by large hotels. Its a gateway to
  Turkeys southern Mediterranean region, known as
  the Turquoise Coast for its blue waters.
  Overnight in Antalya. (B, PL, D)

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Day 6

• Visit Perge. Free time.Today, visit the city of
  Perge. The historical site of Perge, 18
  kilometers east of Turkey, holds the vast remains
  of what was once the most prosperous city of the
  ancient world. Visit the Perge Excavations - The
  Perge excavations are the longest-running in
  Turkey. Over 65 years, archaeologists have
  unearthed 20 to 25 percent of the ancient city.
  Among those ruins are two thermae baths, city
  gates, an agora, streets, three fountains and
  some parts of houses. During the latest
  excavations archaeologists found mosaics and the
  street of the ancient city. Later, enjoy time at
  leisure in Antalya. Overnight in Antalya. (B, L,
  D)

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Day 7

• Pamukkale. Visit the Hierapolis Thermal
  Terraces.Today, drive to Pamukkale - meaning
  cotton castle in Turkish, is a natural site in
  Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey. The area
  is famous for its hot springs and enormous white
  terraces of travertine, a carbonate mineral left
  by the flowing water. Visit the Hierapolis
  Thermal Terraces and marvel at the spectacle
  created by nature. What makes Hierapolis
  different from most places on Earth is that it is
  not built on land, neither on water, but on
  limestone deposits above the mineral springs in
  the area. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  because of the ruins that are littered all over
  the city, including the necropolis that houses
  the sarcophagi of important ancient figures like
  Marcus Aurelius. Overnight in Pamukkale. (B, L, D)

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Day 8

• KusadasiToday, drive to Kusadasi - one of the
  Turkish Mediterraneans most popular cruise ship
  ports. This harbor town is all about sun, sea,
  and fun holidays. Known for its bargain shopping
  and lively entertainment scene, it has become,
  over the past few decades, a favorite destination
  for visitors from around the world. Overnight in
  Kusadasi. (B, L, D)

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Day 9

• Day trip to the Ephesus Excavations.Today,
  proceed on a day trip to Ephesus apparently the
  last home of the Virgin Mary. Nesting on the
  western show of contemporary Turkey, near small
  resort Kusadasi, the once influential trading and
  spiritual place of Ephesus was regarded as the
  most important and largest centers of the old
  Mediterranean world, and is regarded as the best
  preserved places of antiquity in Asia Minor. Here
  visit the Artemis temple - constructed in the mid
  6th century BCE. It was located in Ephesus
  (modern Turkey), and was considered to be one of
  the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Visit the
  Library of Celcius - this library is one of the
  most beautiful structures in Ephesus. It was
  built in 117 A.D. It was a monumental tomb for
  Gaius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, the governor of
  the province of Asia from his son Galius Julius
  Aquila. Also visit the House of Virgin Mary - the
  shrine of Virgin Mary enjoys a marvelous
  atmosphere hidden in the green. It is the place
  where Mary may have spent her last days. Later
  enjoy time at leisure and enjoy the buzzing
  atmosphere of Kusadasi. Overnight in Kusadasi.
  (B, L, D)

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Day 10

• Fly to Istanbul. Guided city tourToday, proceed
  to the airport for your flight to Istanbul.
  Later, proceed on a guided tour. Visit the
  Byzantine Hippodrome, in which stand the obelisk
  brought from Egypt by Theodosius and the Serpent
  Column taken from Delphi by Constantine. Later we
  visit The Blue Mosque, which has six minarets and
  a middle dome of 109 feet. Visit the Topkapi
  Palace Museum and Treasury. Topkapi was seat of
  Ottoman Empire for more than 400 years before
  they moved to other palaces in 19th Century. Also
  visit Hagia Sofia - a former Byzantine church and
  former Ottoman mosque in Istanbul. Now a museum,
  Hagia Sophia is universally acknowledged as one
  of the great buildings of the world. Later, stop
  at Grand Covered Bazaar dating back to 15th
  century. It has over 4,000 shops under one roof.
  Overnight in Istanbul. (B, L, D)

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Day 11

• Return HomeToday, proceed to the airport for
  your flight home. Its time to say goodbye to all
  the new friends you have made. We hope you take
  back happy memories of your Holiday. We would
  like you to spare a few minutes of your time to
  write and tell us how you enjoyed your tour and
  any suggestions you may have for the future. (B)
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