Host: Jay McCarl
Price*: $3995 / person*
(based on 28 passengers with 2 per room)
Features Included:
- Round Trip Air from San Francisco
- Breakfast and dinner daily at hotels and most lunches
- Transfer between airports and hotels
- English-speaking guide throughout whole trip
- Baggage handling, hotel taxes & service charges
- Tips to driver, guide, hotels
Not included:
- Travel Insurance (highly recommended, available at yoshertours.com. Click on travel tips)
- Gifts/personal expenses
- Visa for Turkey
- Beverages at Meals
- Baggage fees at airport if applicable
Itinerary:
Day 1-Monday, Apr 19: Leave USA.
Day 2-Tuesday, Apr 20: Athens. Arrive in Athens, meet and transfer to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day 3-Wednesday, Apr 21: Athens. Visit Parthenon, Temple of Erectheion, Mars Hill, Temple of Zeus, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Parliament and the Panathenian Stadium, Omonia Square, Syntagma Square Acropolis Museum and Plaka. Dinner and overnight.
Day 4-Thursday, Apr 22: Athens – Corinth – Izmir. Depart from the hotel with luggage and drive to ancient Corinth. Visit the Fountain of Peirene, Temple of Apollo and the Bema. In the afternoon drive back to Athens and transfer to the airport for a short flight to İzmir. Visit Smyrna. Dinner and overnight at your hotel in İzmir.
Day 5-Friday, Apr 23: Izmir -Sardis – Philadelphia – Pamukkale. Visit Sardis, Artemis Temple, Roman Imperial Hall. Dinner and overnight in Pamukkale.
Day 6-Saturday, Apr 24: Pammukale – Hierapolis – Colossai – Laodicea – Kuşadisi. Drive to Kuşadası for dinner and overnight.
Day 7-Sunday, Apr 25: Ephesus. Temple of Artemis, Celsus Library, Terrace Houses and Basilica of St. John. Dinner and overnight at hotel in Kuşadası
Day 8-Monday, Apr 26: Kuşadası – Thyatira – Pergamon- Assos. Assos for dinner and overnight.
Day 9-Tuesday, Apr 27: Assos – Alexandria Troas –Troy – İstanbul. Then cross the straits of Dardanelles and drive to İstanbul for dinner and overnight.
Day 10-Wednesday, Apr 28: İstanbul. Visit the Chora Museum, Egyptian Spice Market. In the afternoon embark on a Private Boat for a cruise along the Bosphorus to enjoy the old wooden mansions of the Ottoman Turkish Aristocracy. Disembark and return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day 11-Thursday, Apr 29: İstanbul: Hippodromes, Egyptian Obelisk, Church of St Sophia, Blue Mosque, Topkapı Palace, Covered Bazaar. Dinner will be served at a local restaurant. Overnight in Istanbul.
Day 12-Friday, Apr 30: Transfer to the airport for the flight back home.
Itinerary subject to change
For more information contact Sherry Moore: Sherry@YosherTours.com