- Day 1 ANTALYA
Arrival
to Antalya, transfer to the hotel,
dinner and overnight in Antalya.
- Day 2 ANTALYA
After breakfast, visit three major cities of
the ancient Antalya. Perge, where Apostel Paulus and Barbanas had prayed and it is one of
the early holy center for Cristianity in Asia Minor. Aspendos, which has one of the
best-preserved Roman theater in the world even today been used for many spectacular
attractions seating about 12,000 people. Side, fascinating harbour town with Roman
Agora-theatre, temple and local museum. In the year 390 AD very important bishop synode
had happened here. Dinner and overnight in Antalya.
- Day 3 ANTALYA TO PAMUKKALE
After breakfast, visit to Laodicea, the center
of textile and health where blind people coming to take a medicine for their eyes. The
theatres, the stadium, the Nymphaium and the other ruins are the
Highlights it for your
visit here. It was an Hellenistic city was established 3rd century at the intersectionof
important commercial roads. Laodicea is an ancient city has been never excaveted till
today so displays very limited history it's important to see as It's in the Book of
Revelation.Then, visit Pamukkale (Cotton Castle) where the thermal water flows from
natural pools in the white terraces. Then the ancient city of Hierapolis was named after
Hiera, wife of the founder of Pergamon. Highlights include the Roman baths, the temple of
Apollo and the Nymphaeum is locatedby the Acropolis. Next we'll see the Roman Bath later
covered into a church in the name of St. Philipwhere he was killed in and the largest
Necropolis in antiquity, hundreds of Saroophagi dated back to Hellenistic and Roman era.
Dinner and overnight in Pamukkale.
- Day 4 PAMUKKALE TO IZMIR
After breakfast, visit one of the finest
preserves of Greco-Roman antiquity in existence the biblical city of Ephesus, where St.
Paul preached and third Ecumenical Council was held. Ephesus was once ancient Ionia- a
center for the cult of Cybele, the Anatolian Fertility goddess. Under the influence of the
Ionians Cybele became Artemis and a fabulous temple was built to honor her. We will also
visit the Temple of Artemis, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, which was
dedicated to the virgin goddess of the hunt and moon. The surviving ruins of Ephesus
belong almost completely to the Roman Imperial period as Emperor Augustus declared Ephesus
the capital of all Asia Minor and turned it into a center for trading and banking. The
city grew to a population of over 200,000 and erected wonderful libraries, temples,
agoras, baths, marble streets and amphitheatres. Our walking tour will take in the
exquisite remains of the city, offering an unforgettable glimse into the past. Dinner and
overnight in Kusadasi.
- Day 5 IZMIR
After breakfast visit Pergamum; early
Hellenistic city was the centre of culture, commerce, paganwoship and medical with its
philosophers, scientists, fortune tellers and artists. Acropolis, remains of celebrated
library, more then 200,000 serals were stored in Roman era then given as a gift by
Antonius to Cleopatra. World steepest Hellenistic style 10,000 spectator capacity theater,
marble columned temples of Trajan and the Temple of Dionysus, the Temple of Athena, the
sanctuary of Demeter, Zeus Altar one of the grandest monuments. Then proceed to Asclepion
great health centre where you will have a change to see the curing methods of the ancient
doctors for the mentally sick people. Overnight and dinner in Kusadasi.
- Day 6 IZMIR TO ISTANBUL
After breakfast, depart from Istanbul via
Canakkale. Visit Troy and Assos. Troy is the famous city in Homer's Iliad and Assos has a
commanding coastal site with earliest temple of Athena. Dinner and overnight in Istanbul.
- Day 7 ISTANBUL
After breakfast, full-day tour of Istanbul,
founded on November 26, AD 326 when the Empheror
Constantine ousted the residents of
Byzantium and turned their rustic community into the biggest construction site the world
had ever seen. In the new city of Constantinople, treasures from around the ancient world
were collected, resulting in a mix of the classical pagan ageswith the recent Christian
era. We will visit Hagia Sophia, dedicated in AD 536 by Justinian-the architectural wonder
of its time. It was once believed that the area where the Empheror's throne sar was the
centre of the world. The elaborate mosaics in the church shimmer in a glory of gold and
cerulean blue. Behind Hagia Sophia is the Topkapi Palace, which was the main nerve
centre
of the Ottoman empire. The Palace is a sprawling eclectic city overlooking the sea of
Marmara and consist of outer and inner palaces as well as a harem for Sultan's three
hundred wives. We hope to have time for a stop at the most famous mosque in old Istanbul,
the Blue Mosque, built in the early 1600s for the Sultan Ahmet. Dinner and overnight in
Istanbul.
- Day 8 TRANSFER TO AIRPORT
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