4 Nights 5 Days
International Tour Packages
2 - persons
Instanbul, Turkey
Per Adult: 0
📌Istanbul is a major city in Turkey that straddles Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait. Its Old City reflects cultural influences of the many empires that once ruled here
📌he “long Bosphorus cruise” (6-8 hours depending on the weather) is a whole-day event that includes a three-hour stop at a fishing village. While you technically get to the Black Sea, it is a long day which includes several hours of down time.
📌The Galata Tower, officially the Galata Kulesi Museum, is an old Genoese tower in the Galata part of the Beyo?lu district of Istanbul, Turkey.
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Location: Instanbul, Turkey
Day 1 – Arrival day in Istanbul/ Old Town Tour.Â
Meet at the airport and start old town tour.
Visit to St. Sophia This ancient basilica, built by Constantine the Great in the 4th century and reconstructed by Justinian in the 6th century, is one of the architectural marvels of all time. Topkapi Palace The great palace of the Ottoman sultans from the 15th to the 19th centuries housing an exquisite collection of cyrstal, silver, and Chinese porcelain, robes worn by the sultans and their families.
The famous jewels of the Imperial Treasury, miniatures, the Holy Mantle; enshrining relics of the Prophet Mohammed. SULTANAHMET IMPERIAL MOSQUE Across from St. Sophia built in the 16th century by the architect Mehmet, is known as the BLUE MOSQUE because of its magnificent interior decoration of blue Iznik tiles. HIPPODROME Ancient Hippodrome, the scene of chariot races, with the three monuments; the Obelisk of Theodosius, the bronze Serpentine Column and the Column of Constantine.
Lunch break at 13:00pm after the lunch Ada Vegas Travel will then take you to the Grand Covered Bazaar In this labyrinth of streets and passages are more then 4,000 shops with each trade having its own area: the goldsmiths street, the carpet sellers, Turkish arts and crafts, such as handpainted ceramic plates, hand-honed copperware, brassware and trays, water ewers, onyx-ware and meerschaum pipes. After the tour, transfer back to your hotel. Overnight in Istanbul.
Day 2 -Â Bosphorus Cruise & Two Continents Tour (Breakfast)
Istanbul offers a lot to see, and on this tour we will do a visit to the sites out of the historical old town. After you are picked up from the hotel (08:30am) and meet with the tour guide, we will drive along the city walls and reach Spice Bazaar, the place to get your turkish delight, nuts, herbs, spice and dried fruit. We spend about 30 minutes there and then drive to the port to take the boat for the cruise on Bosphorus. It is a privilige and memorable experience to cruise between two continents. From the boat we will see the great Ottoman Mansions, Dolmabahce Palace, Ciragan Palace, Ortakoy Mosque, Galata Tower, Bosphorus Bridge, Rumeli Fortress and many other places along side European and Asian part of Bosphorus. The history and significance of all these places will be explained by your experienced local tour guide. After the cruise, we will have lunch in a local restaurant and then continue to the tour by driving to the Asian side. We will have an interior visit to Beylerbeyi Palace, built in the 1860s and used as a summer residence by the Ottoman Sultans.Our last visit will be to Camlica Hill, the highest point of Istanbul, from where we will have a spectacular view of the entire city. On the way back, we will have short break for shopping Then we will drive back and drop you off at your hotel. Overnight in Istanbul.
Day 3– Taksim / Istiklal Street / Galata Tower (Outside) / Galata Bridge / Spice Bazaar
At 09:00am Our local tour guide and driver will meet with you at your hotel. As per your request our guide will take you to the Taksim square first to see & visit Istiklal Street, Madame Tussauds Museum, Galata Tower (From outside), Galata Bridge, Spice bazaar ( to see the and feed the birds). And our guide will take you the the nearby Kubbe Rest to have the view of the Galata bridge. The restaurant is closed due to the virus measure. We may have picture break from outside.
Day 4 –  Princes’ Island Tour ( Büyük Ada) (Breakfast)
Cruise the beautiful Marmara Sea to Princes' Island by boat.Take the ferry to one of the Princes' Islands, Buyukada (Big Island) which is a quiet sea front town and summer holiday escape from the city. Leaving the Golden Horn by ferry, you will round Sarayburnu (Seraglio Point), the headland on which the domes and minarets of Topkapi Palace, Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque can be seen. We will pass four islands with their charming old Ottoman houses and finally reach Buyukada, the largest of the islands. Upon arrival to the island, you will see the lavish Ottoman mansions and other beautiful Victorian summer villas around the island . You will enjoy a delicious lunch in a cozy sea-side fish restaurant and relax looking back at the domes and minarets among skyscrapers of modern Istanbul's skyline. This a perfect day for relaxing and enjoying one of Istanbul's residents' favorite summer retreats. Return by ferry and drop off to hotel or port.
You will be transfered back to hotel at the end of tour.
5.Day - Istanbul – End of Tour (Breakfast included)
After breakfast you will transfer to airport and our services ends. We hope your tour was a memorable one and we would like to see you in the future in one of our tours again. Have a nice trip back home and thanks for choosing.