Embark on a 12-day sightseeing tour of Eastern Turkey to explore ancient civilizations and unearth unseen landscapes. Discover tea plantations, Mt. Ararat, Lake Van, and the incredible Göbekli Tepe.
Embark on a 12-day sightseeing tour of Eastern Turkey to explore ancient civilizations and unearth unseen landscapes. Discover tea plantations, Mt. Ararat, Lake Van, and the incredible Göbekli Tepe.
Trabzon, Sumela Monastery and Hagia Sophia,Black Sea coastline-Tea Factory-Overnight Artvin
Trabzon Hagia Sophia Museum - Take the morning flight from Istanbul to Trabzon (or you can arrive a day before) .The guide will be at the airport to collect the party. We will start the tour with a visit the Hagia Sophia Museum, a significant 14th century…
Trabzon, Sumela Monastery and Hagia Sophia,Black Sea coastline-Tea Factory-Overnight Artvin
Trabzon Hagia Sophia Museum - Take the morning flight from Istanbul to Trabzon (or you can arrive a day before) .The guide will be at the airport to collect the party. We will start the tour with a visit the Hagia Sophia Museum, a significant 14th century Byzantine church, overlooking the Black Sea, which boasts some frescos of considerable importance.
Sumela Monastery - From Trabzon we travel a short way up the Zigana Valley, to Macka
in the Altindere National Park to visit the Monastery of the Black
Virgin at Sumela. In this truly spectacular setting, the seven story
Sumela Monastery hangs from the side of a 1200 ft cliff overlooking
a steep river valley.
This has been a monastic site as early as the 4th century AD and was a renowned monastic community partly because of its remarkable location and the ascetic principles characterised by the early years of Christian monasticism. Drive to Artvin via Rize and hopa along the coast of Black Sea.
Altindere Vadisi National Park - Trabzon city tour and Altindere national park
- Dinner
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Breakfast
- Includes: Two domestic flights, All state and local taxes, breakfasts, dinners, all museum site entries
- All fees and/or taxes
- Dinner
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Breakfast
- Includes: Two domestic flights, All state and local taxes, breakfasts, dinners, all museum site entries
- All fees and/or taxes
- Lunch
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Lunch
- Alcoholic Beverages
Our tours are meticulously crafted through rigorous research and examination, fortified by hands-on regional understanding and our three-decade long experience. Spanning across the 12,000-year-old history of Anatolia, this distinct 12-day journey to Eastern Turkey covers three separate climatic regions and four vast civilizations, including the world’s…
Our tours are meticulously crafted through rigorous research and examination, fortified by hands-on regional understanding and our three-decade long experience. Spanning across the 12,000-year-old history of Anatolia, this distinct 12-day journey to Eastern Turkey covers three separate climatic regions and four vast civilizations, including the world’s oldest known monumental megalithic structure. Highlights include visiting Black Sea’s tea plantations, the memorable Mount Ararat (believed to be Noah’s Ark’s final resting place), the enchanting Lake Van, the capital city and significant citadel of the Kingdom of Urartu, culminating in the incredible site of Göbekli Tepe dating back to 10,000 BC!
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
