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breakfast with farmers, meetings with local about the future of Turkey. This evening, enjoy
villagers at a teahouse, and enjoying lunch a Home-Hosted Dinner with a local family. Arrive Early, Stay Later
Cappadocia, Turkey with a local family before stops at a few of B,D — Tuvana Hotel or similar
Cappadocia’s most famous rock formations. Prices below include accommodations, daily breakfast,
B,L,D — Alfina Hotel or similar DAY • Antalya • Perge and Aspendos and private airport transfer.
Turkey’s Magical Hideaways DAY • Cappadocia • Underground city • Explore the ruins of Perge and Aspendos, two • Arrive early in Baku on your Azerbaijan pre-trip
ancient sites nestled along the coast.
Optional Whirling Dervishes tour extension for $150 per person, per night
Turkey: Istanbul, Cappadocia, Antalya, 4-Night Turquoise Coast private gulet cruise, Ephesus Departures: Enjoy a hike among the serene Cappadocian B — Tuvana Hotel or similar • Spend more time in Istanbul before your main trip
For single and double cabin availability, departure dates, and pricing, visit www.oattravel.com/ tmh pricing Mar-Jun; Aug-Nov 2023 landscape before visiting an underground city DAY • Fethiye • Embark ship or after your northwest Turkey post-trip extension
for $175 per person, per night
built by early Christians. Later, enjoy a craft Drive to the port of Fethiye. Then, we board our
demonstration by local artists at a rug-weaving privately-chartered, traditional Turkish gulet. • Stay later in Kusadasi after your main trip for
17 days from $ 3995 cooperative. This evening, you can join an B,L,D — Turkish ulet just $125 per person, per night
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including international airfare See the bazaars, palaces, and mosques of exotic Istanbul, where Occident meets Orient ... optional tour to witness a performance of the DAY • Bay of Gemiler • Hike to
Whirling Dervishes.
explore the underground cities of Cappadocia ... and walk in the footsteps of saints and
Limited FREE or Low-Cost legionnaires in Ephesus. Cruise on a private, 13-passenger gulet-style yacht—a modern B,L,D — Alfina Hotel or similar Kayakoy • Gemiler Island
Single Supplement Available version of the traditional wooden-hulled vessels that plied the Aegean—and swim in DAY • Konya • Whirling Dervish monas- Cruise to the Bay of Gemiler, and then drive DAY ¥ • Disembark ship • Kusadasi
Cruise to the harbor at Marmaris, disembark our ship,
near Kayakoy, a Greek “ghost town,” which
Save a FULL 10%, up to $510, with our translucent waters, witness ruins hewn into clis, and visit hidden coves. tery • Antalya we’ll reach by hiking along a scenic trail. Then and then journey overland to Kusadasi, gateway to
Good Buy Plan—reserve by 8/31/22 Journey across the Taurus Mountains to the descend along a winding path to meet our ancient Ephesus.
seaside town of Antalya. En route, stop in ship. Later, cruise to Gemiler Island, with its B,L,D — Charisma Hotel or similar
Konya, home of the Whirling Dervish orders 6th-century Byzantine monastery.
WHAT TO EXPECT DAY • Istanbul • Grand Bazaar & challenges refugees face in Turkey. We’ll also stroll and a bastion of Seljuk culture. Visit the DAY ¦ • Kusadasi • Ephesus
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Topkapi Palace along Istiklal Caddesi and stop at the Spice Bazaar. Mevlana Museum, the former tekke (dervish B,L,D — Turkish ulet Visit ancient Ephesus, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Visit the Hippodrome, followed by the Grand Bazaar, B — Armada Old City Hotel or similar hall) that now holds the tomb of Celaleddin DAY • Lydea • Cleopatra’s Baths Then, visit the Ephesus Museum before returning
one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the Rumî, founder of the Mevlevi order of Our gulet docks in a scenic cove which shelters to Kusadasi.
View all physical requirements at world. Then, explore Topkapi Palace, which served DAY • Fly to Cappadocia • Göreme dervishes. the sunken baths of Cleopatra, built for her by
www.oattravel.com/ tmh as the main residence of Ottoman sultans. open-air museum B,L,D — Tuvana Hotel or similar Mark Antony. Here, disembark for a hike to the B,L,D — Charisma Hotel or similar
B,D — Armada Old City Hotel or similar Fly to Cappadocia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Greco-Roman site of Lydea. DAY • Return to U.S.
ITINERARY and explore Göreme—a vast, open-air monastic DAY • Explore Antalya • Conversation Fly home, or begin your post-trip extension to
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DAY • Hagia Sophia • Controversial Topic: complex of rock churches covered with frescoes about Turkey’s future with a local lawyer B,L,D — Turkish ulet
DAY • Depart U.S. Syrian refugees dating from the tenth to the 13th centuries. • Home-Hosted Dinner DAY ¢ • Ekincik Cove • Dalyan River • Kaunos Northwest Turkey: Battlefields of Ancient Troy and
Gallipoli & Istanbul.
Fly overnight to Istanbul, Turkey. Visit the Hagia Sophia, which was completed B,D — Alfina Hotel or similar After a discussion with an archaeologist at Cruise to Ekincik Cove, where a small boat takes B
under Emperor Justinian in AD 537 and served as our hotel, visit the Antalya Museum, featuring
DAY • Istanbul a Christian church for nearly 1,000 years. Then, DAY • Optional Ballooning Over Cappadocia us up the Dalyan River. Then, visit the ancient
Today, meet your fellow travelers, including meet with a Syrian refugee and a Turkish citizen tour • A Day in the Life of a Cappadocian village artifacts from the Stone and Bronze Ages Lycian site of Kaunos to view the remains of
to Byzantium. Then, enjoy a walking tour of
those who took our optional pre-trip extension to to discuss a Controversial Topic about the Join an early-morning optional hot-air balloon ride Antalya’s Old Town, including Hadrian’s Gate. temples, baths, and an ancient theater.
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Untouched Azerbaijan. over Cappadocia. Then, head to a small village for Later, meet with a local lawyer who will talk B,L,D — Turkish ulet
Armada Old City Hotel or similar our A Day in the Life experience, which includes To learn more about this
Small Ship Adventure,
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