Tranfser to Istnabul Airport for evening flight to Kayseri.
Transfer from airport to hotel

Stay overngiht in Cappadocia

Depart from your hotel to visit Devrent Valley to see the unique fairy-chimneys. Then visit Zelve Open Air Museum, where three canyons meet in the valley.
Drive to Pasabagi (Monk's Valley) to see the most interesting mushroom-shaped pinnacles. Drive to the city of Avanos for lunch. In the afternoon visit another beautiful open-air museum at Goreme where the remains of rock-cut churches and frescoes and Christian settlements date back hundreds of years. Lastly, before returning to your hotel, visit the natural rock castles at Uchisar

Stay overnight in Cappadocia

Depart from your hotel to visit Red valley, explore the famous rock-cut churches and hike 5 km through the Güllüdere valley. Then visit Cavusin village. This village is famous for the houses and churches of the Christian clergymen. Drive to the pigeon valley for lunch. In the afternoon visit Kaymakli underground city where Early Christians lived in fear and faith.
On the way back visit the natural rock castles at Ortahisar and the Greek village of Mustafapasa.

Stay overnight in Cappadocia

Early departure from Cappadocia for Adiyaman. Visit the Seljuk Karatayhan Caravanserai on the famous Silk Road. Then drive through the Taurus Mountain Chain. After having lunch in Tekir Forest, we head towards Kahramanmaras, which is famous for its ice cream.
We arrive in Kahta in the late afternoon and visit the Karakus tumulus where the royal family members were buried. We then visit the Old Roman Cendere Bridge over the Cendere Stream. We visit Mithridates I Hierothesion in Arsemia, which was once the capital of the Kommagene Kingdom.
Finally we go to Mt. Nemrut to see the Colossal God statues while the sun is setting

Dinner at Atatürk Dam

Stay overnight in Kahta

After breakfast at the hotel we visit Atatürk Dam, which is in one of the
biggest project of Turkey (GAP). Arrive to Urfa and have lunch after which we will then visit another archeological site, Harran, mystical and ancient 'bee-hive' house built of mud-brick, which is mentioned in Genesis as being a place where Abraham lived.
At the same site we will visit the first Islamic University of the world. Visit the birthplace of the Prophet Abraham with its mosques, Abraham's birth-cave, and beautiful gardens.
Hve dinner at a local restaurant

Stay overnight in Urfa

 

We leave Urfa for Mardin. It looks spectacular. In Mardin, with its tiered layers of houses, mansions, mosques and churches rising out of the endless, level plain and clinging to a huge citadel-topped rock, we visit Deyrulzafran monastery (Saffron
Monastery), which is still used by the Syrian Orthodox communities. After visiting
the monastery, we drive to Diyarbakir

Stay overnight in Diyarbakir

We visit the city walls of Diyarbakir, which were built by the Romans. Then
we visit the Ulu Cami, the first of Anatolia's great Seljuk Mosques. Afterwards drive to Bitlis to visit a 13th century Caravanserai. Catch the ferryboat to Akdamar Island, situated in the biggest lake in Turkey, to view an exquisite example of an Armenian Church

Stay overnight in Van

First we visit Van Castle, which is 100m high and 300m wide at the base. It was the site of an Urartian temple, of which only a couple of arched niches remain.
After visiting Van castle we continue to Çavu?tepe, the site of an Urartian Royal Palace, built between 764 and 735 BC by King Sardur II. The next stop is Hosap Castle, which was constructed at the behest of Sari Suleyman Mahmudi, a local Kurdish strong man, in the 1640s.

Stay overnight in Van

We leave Van after breakfast and travel to Dogubeyazit. We stop at the wonderful Muradiye Waterfall. Then we head for Ishakpasa Palace, a 17th century palace set on a 200m high plateau overlooking the town.

Stay overnight in Dogubeyazit

We drive to Kars, which has a spectacular castle and still has fine
examples of Armenian architecture, one of which is the breathtaking site
of the ancient city of Ani located on the Armenian-Turkish border.

Stay overnight in Kars

We drive west along the Black Sea to Trabzon, founded by the Kingdom of
Miletus, the largest city in the Black Sea region. The route isthrough a forested region, passing through small, unspoiled villages untouched by tourism. We shall arrive in Trabzon in the late afternoon, giving some free time to enjoy the city at your own pace

Stay overnight in Trabzon

After breakfast we visit the Hagia Sophia Museum with its spectacular frescoes. We then head inland to visit the mystical Sumela Monastery, dating back to early Christianity, which was built high into the side of the steep cliff face

Stay overnight in Trabzon

Transfer to Trabzon airport for your morning flight to Istanbul