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Sailing Tours
THE LYCIAN
COAST
15
days ▫
9 nights on board
CARIAN ODYSSEY
12 days
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7 nights on board
GREEK ISLANDS
14
days
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11 nights on board
A FAMILY ADVENTURE
16 days
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6 nights on
board.
Overland Tours
BIBLICAL TURKEY.
14 days
Biblical sites in
Asia Minor
ANCIENT TURKEY .
16 days
Western Turkey and Cappadocia
EASTERNMOST TURKEY
16 days
in the eastern highlands
CAPPADOCIA
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3 days
A wonderland
&
warm hospitability
ANTALYA DAY TOURS
Antalya Old Town,
Perge, Aspendos, Archeological Museum,
Termessos, Phaselis, Olympus, Myra, Kekova, ...
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EASTERNMOST
TURKEY
16-Day Hiking and Cultural Adventures in the Easternmost and the Black
Sea Regions of Turkey
This trip takes you from beloved Istanbul to the
wild terrain of Easternmost Turkey. Exotic
antiquities, mystery of Noah's Ark,... and the
Black Sea region with extraordinary natural
beauties and historic values.
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Day 1, 2 .
Istanbul, capital to Roman, Byzantine and
Ottoman empires. You arrive on day 1 and
the next day we tour Istanbul's great monuments
such as
Roman Hippodrome, the exquisite Blue Mosque,
the great church of
Haghia Sophia, the huge Basilica Cistern
and Topkapi Palace, the home and administrative
center of Ottoman Sultans for 400 years.
 Day
3 - 9
. Inner
East -
Fly
to Van
and visit
marvellous Akhdamar Island in beautiful
Lake Van,
travel in the past through 8 C BCE Urartian
fortresses (Day 3). Glamorous Ishak Pasha
Palace amazes us on Day 4. See huge meteor
hole and legendary petrified Noah's Ark
(Day 5). Visit Ani,
the capital of the medieval Armenian
principality,
Kars
for formidable castle and Russian structures
from W.W.I,
and stay at a remote hotel by lake Karagol
(Day 6). Hike from an old Georgian church to
a monastery (Day 7). Stay in Macahel, a village
just at the Georgian border with fascinating
beauty and people (Day 8 and 9).
Day 10 - 15 . Black
Sea, Kackar Mountains - Wilderness of
dazzling mountains and "yayla"s, the alpine pastures, located at high altitudes
at the foot of the Kackar Mountains are all
amazing. Hike and
visit medieval castels, bridges and glacier
lakes, meet the local people, the wittiest in
Turkey on Day 10 and 11. Discover the city of
Rize and the old monuments of Trabzon (Trebizond)
on Day 12.
Visit Sumela Monastery the
largest and the most impressive Byzantine
monastic establishment in Asia Minor, some three
hundred meters above a rushing stream in the
valley below; stay in Ordu, the hazelnut center
of the world (Day 13). Visit a popular local
craftsman making hand-made clarinets in the
inner part of Ordu province; remember
Jason, the mythical hero who quested for the
golden fleece with the Argonauts at Cape Yason;
take a boat to Giresun Island (Aretias) where Antiope,
queen of the Amazons, had a temple built
consecrated to Ares (Day 14). Get back Trabzon
and visit Church of Haghia Sophia and see more
about the city, and fly back to Istanbul ( Day
15).
Day 10 -
Depart
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