14 DAYS TURKEY AND ARMENIA TREASURE TOUR ITINERARY:
Day 1 - Istanbul - Arrival Day
(Breakfast included)
Meet at the Istanbul international Ataturk airport and transfer to your hotel.
You will be given your room key and the rest of the day is yours to explore
Istanbul. Overnight in Istanbul.
Day 2 - Istanbul
(Breakfast included)
Guided Istanbul walking old city tour visiting Topkapi Palace (closed on tuesdays)
Hippodrome, Blue Mosque, Aya Sophia Museum (closed on mondays), Underground
Cistern, Covered Grand Bazaar (closed on sundays). Overnight in Istanbul.
Day 3 - Bosphorus and Two Continents
(Breakfast included)
Pick up at 08:30 from the hotel for the tour of Bosphorus and the Asian part of
Istanbul. During the tour we will enjoy a Bosphorus Cruise, having lunch and
visiting the Dolmabahce Palace, Bosphorus Bridge, Asian side. Tonight we have an
evening flight to Kusadasi.
Day 4 - Ephesus and House of Virgin Mary
(Breakfast included)
Todays is pick up time again at 08:30 for the tour of the ancient city of
Ephesus and Virgin Mary';s House. You will visit: The Temple of Diana, The Old
City of Ephesus, Temple of Hadrian and Serapis, Library of Celcius, lunch in
Selcuk, the Last Abode of Virgin Mary and Temple of Artemis. Overnight in
Kusadasi.
Day 5 - Kusadasi and Cappadocia
(Breakfast included)
The day is yours till your flight time. You will be picked up from your hotel
and transfer to airport for your domestic flight to Cappadocia. Upon arrival
transfer and check into your hotel. Overnight in Cappadocia.
Day 6 - Cappadocia
(Breakfast and lunch included)
You will be picked up from your hotel at 09:30 for the second day tour of
Cappadocia. You will visit: Red valley (4 kms hiking), Rose valley (visiting the
churches), Cavusin (Old Christian village), Lunch in Pigeon valley, Kaymakli
(Underground City), and Ortahisar Castle. After the tour transfer to your hotel.
Overnight in Cappadocia.
Day 7 - Cappadocia
(Breakfast and lunch included)
Your day starts with a pick up at 9:30 and tour of the local highlights of
Cappadocia. You will visit: Devrent Valley, Monk´s valley (Pasabag), Avanos
(lunch in Avanos), Goreme open air museum, Uchisar (Natural Castle). End of the
tour transfer to airport for your domestic flight to Istanbul. Upon arrival
transfer and check into your hotel. Overnight in Istanbul.
Day 8 - Istanbul - Armenia
(Breakfast included)
After breakfast check out from the hotel and depart by international flight to
Armenia. Upon arrival in Yerevan, you will meet with our local representative at
the airport and be transfered to your hotel. The rest of the day is yours to
explore this historical cultural city. Overnight in Yerevan.
Day 9 - Yerevan City Tour
(Breakfast and dinner included)
After breakfast, we will pick you up from your hotel at 10.00AM. Firstly we will
go to see the panoramic view of Yerevan. Matenadaran Museum, The Institute of
Ancient Manuscripts is one of the oldest and most well-endowed libraries in the
world dominates the centre of Yerevan from its location on top of the hill at
the end of Mashtots Avenue. The Matenadaran has a collection of more than 17000
books and manuscripts, many from ancient times, covering not only different
facets of Armenian history and culture, but also of many other countries as
well. Along the way you will get to see the Sports and Concert complex, Kievyan
Bridge, Baghramyan Avenue-the Presidential Palace, Academy of Sciences, National
Parliament, Writers Union, and the Opera House, Republic Square, History Museum
of Armenia. State History Museum of Armenia was founded in 1919. The Museum had
Archeology, Ethnography, Historiography and Fine Arts sections. The Museum
collections became the main resource for starting up a number of museums (Museum
of History of Yerevan, Armenian Ethnographic Museum, etc.). The archeological
groups of the Museum conduct excavations on various sites and publish monographs
and collections of research papers. Currently the Museum has about 400,000
exhibits, over 5,000 of which are on a permanent display. We will visit Old Food
Market before we drive back Yerevan and at 19.00, Murti's Tour would like to
invite you to have welcome dinner with us.
Day 10 - Yerevan Etchmiatsin Cathedral
(Breakfast and dinner included)
At 10.00AM, we will pick up from your hotel and shall start our tour. Travel
Shop Turkey will accompany you to have the tour today. When we are on the way to
Etchmiatsin we will visit Hripsime church. Pilgrimage to Etchmiadzin Cathedral
which is the first official Christian church in the world, built in
301.Afterwards we will arrive Etchmiatsin, called New City and Vagharshapat in
the past, lying 20 km from Yerevan, is the city where the Mother Cathedral - the
throne of the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians - is located. It
was founded in the beginning of the 4th century A.D. According to the Revelation
of Gregory the Illuminator, Jesus Christ descended from the heavens and pointed
to the site on which the Cathedral was to be built. That is why it was named
Etchmiatsin which means 'The Only Begotten Descended'. Murti's Tour will lead
you to visit the ruins of Zvartnots Temple where is the architectural
masterpiece of Zvartnots was built by the order of the Catholicos Nerses III
between the years 641 and 662. It was damaged by an earthquake in the 10th
century and unearthed nearly a thousand years later in 1900-1907, in the town of
Etchmiatsin. After we will drive back to Yerevan to visit our last stop for our
tour today - Arts and Crafts Vernissage. At the end of the tour, we will
transfer you back to hotel. The rest of the day is yours to explore Yerevan.
Overnight in Yerevan.
Day 11 - Yerevan-Khor Virap Monastery - Noravank - Selim Caravanserai - Lake
Sevan
(Breakfast and dinner included)
After breakfast, check out from your hotel in Yerevan and we will pick you up at
09.00AM. Firstly we will drive to Ararat Region, visit Khor Virap Monastery. If
you want to see Mt. Ararat at its best, Murti's Tour highly recommend you to
visit Khor Virap. The latter was a royal dungeon in Artashat (Artaxata), the
ancient capital of Armenia which is located just in front of the biblical
mountain. Afterwards we will keep moving on, we will drive to Vayots Dzor Region
to visit Winery and tasting in Areni Village. Also we will visit Noravank - The
architectural complex of Noravank (13-14th centuries).Then we shall keep
continue our tour. We will visit Noravank where is the architectural complex of
Noravank (13-14th centuries) Afterward we will drive to Selim by passing the Old
Caravanserai. The Selim Caravanserai is situated on the celebrated "Silk road"
on the way from Gegharkunik to the Vayots Dzor. It located on the Selim Mountain
whose summit is 2410m above sea level, this unique inn was founded as a transit
point along the most famous of the caravan routes of old. Marco Polo is known to
have passed through this locale and described how the local Armenians lived
amidst the rugged mountains. And then we will keep driving to where we stay for
tonight - Lake Sevan. Upon arrival, you will be transfer to your hotel and given
your room key. Overnight in Sevan.
Day 12 - Lake Sevan - Dilijan
(Breakfast and dinner included)
After your breakfast, check out from your hotel in Sevan. At 09.00AM we will
pick you up from your hotel and shall start our tour. TravelShop Turkey will
accompany you to visit Lake Sevan and Sevan Monastery on the peninsula. Then we
will drive to Dilijan where is a small paradise in Armenia with its charming
nature and extraordinary architecture.
In Dilijan, we will visit Sharambeyan street, it has been preserved as an Old
Town Dilijan complete with craftsmen's workshops, small shops with traditional
Armenian products and crafts, museum, showing a typical 19th century home with
all its locally made furnishings, guest house and a Tufenkian Restaurant.
Afterwards, we will visit Goshavank Monastery in Dilijan before we drive back
Yerevan. At the end of the tour, drive back to Yerevan and transfer you back to
your hotel. The rest of the day is leisure. Overnight in Yerevan.
Day 13 - Yerevan - Garni Temple - Geghard Monastery
(Breakfast and dinner included)
Today our tour starts pick you up from your hotel at 10.00AM. Firstly, we will
drive to Garni village to visit Garni Pagan Temple where is the ancient
architectural complex of Garni (3rd century B.C. - 1st c. A.D.), 28 kilometers
away from Yerevan, in the province of Kotayk, includes a fortress, a palace and
a pagan temple. On this triangular plateau, plunging from a height of 300 meters
to the rushing River Azat, stand the ruins of a powerful fortress with huge
basalt slabs designed for defense of the royal summer residence of Armenia. Also
we will visit Rustic House in Garni with you. In here we will organize Armenian
bread-lavash making ceremony and the visitors will participate in it.
Then Murti's Tour will visit Geghard Monastery with you. The cave monastery of
Ayrivank or Geghard. - six kilometers from Garni, dates back to the 4th century.
Subsequently destroyed, it was rebuilt in the 12th century. The main Cathedral
of the Virgin Mary was erected in 1215. The spear that pierced Christ's body is
believed to have been kept here. That is why the monastery was named Geghard
('Spear' translated from Armenian). It is a unique complex of churches carved
into the mountain and linked to each other by a series of tunnels and caves. At
the end of the tour, we will transfer you back to your hotel in Yerevan. The
rest of the day is leisure, enjoy your last night in Yerevan. Overnight in
Yerevan.
Day 14 - Yerevan - End of the Tour
(Breakfast included)
After breakfast, check out from your hotel. Regarding your flight departure
time, we will arrange your airport transfer to have your international flight
back home. We hope your tour was a memorable one and we would like to see you in
future in one of our tours again. Have a nice trip back home and thanks for
choosing TravelShop Turkey.
14 DAYS TURKEY AND ARMENIA TREASURE TOUR INCLUDES:
- Arrival airport transfer from Istanbul Ataturk airport
- Domestic flight from Istanbul to Izmir
- Domestic flight from Izmir to Cappadocia
- Domestic flight from Izmir to Istanbul
- 3 nights hotel in Istanbul
- 2 nights hotel in Cappadocia
- 2 nights hotel in Kusadasi
- 7 breakfasts and 3 lunches
- 2 guided Istanbul City tours
- 2 guided Cappadocia tours
- 1 guided Ephesus tour
- Return transfer to Istanbul Ataturk airport
- Arrival airport transfer from Yerevan airport
- 5 nights hotel in Yerevan
- 1 night hotel in Sevan
- 6 breakfasts and 5 dinners
- Guided Yerevan City tour
- Guided Khor Virap Monastery tour and Wine Factories
- Guided Lake Sevan Tour
- Armenian bread making ceremony
- Armenian souvenir
- All entrance fees mentioned in the itinerary
- Transportation in a fully air-conditioned, non-smoking coach
- Professional English-speaking tour guides
- Return airport transfer to Yerevan airport
14 DAYS TURKEY AND ARMENIA TREASURE TOUR DOES NOT INCLUDE:
- International flights
- Visas
Please Note: In Istanbul Hagia Sophia closed on mondays, Topkapi Palace closed on tuesdays, Grand Bazaar closed on sundays.
14 DAYS TURKEY AND ARMENIA TREASURE TOUR PRICES IN EURO:
Per Person |
Shared Double |
Single |
|
€ 1195.00 |
€ 1519.00 |
|
€ 1395.00 |
€ 1795.00 |
|
€ 1799.00 |
€ 2445.00 |
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