ITINERARY
Day 1: Istanbul
Arrival at Istanbul airport. Welcome by an English speaking guide and transfer to the hotel. Overnight stay for 4 days. Dinner at hotel.
Day 2: City-tour Istanbul
After breakfast, explore Turkey’s capital: the Galata Bridge Haghia Sophia, the underground cistern, the Hippodrom with obelisks, and the Kaiser Wilhelm II fountain – lunch in a historical gourmet restaurant. Afterwards you visit the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Egyptian Bazar with fruit and vegetable market and stroll over the Galata Bridge from the Old to the New City. Then you will drive to the famous shopping mile Istiklal Caddesi, the so called „Down Town“ of Istanbul. You see the flower and fish market and visit the rustic beer halls of Cicek Pasaji. Dinner will be in a traditional restaurant with a gourmet kitchen near the Bosporus Sea.
Day 3: Sight-seeing tour „Plaisir des Yeux“
Transfer to the Bosporus and visit of the Sultan Dolmabahce. Afterwards you cross the intercontinental Bosporus Bridge from Europe to Asia. Have a great panoramic view from the hill Camlica. Tea, so called Cay, will be served in an old pavilion. Now it goes back to Europe over the Sultan Mehmet Fatih Bridge. There you have lunch in a restaurant with fish specialties. A liner takes you now along the Bosporus. Shopping tour in the Great Bazar. Transfer to the hotel.
Dinner in a restaurant with meat specialities.
Day 4: Sight-seeing tour „Amuse Geule“
Guided tour through the Topkapi Palace. Afterwards drive along the Golden Horn to the Islamic place of pilgrimage Eyüp. Walk along the Byzantine battlements to the entrance of the quarter Kumkapi. Lunch with various Amuse Geule. Drive back to the hotel and time to freshen up.
In the evening we will have dinner in a gourmet restaurant with special fish dishes.
Day 5: Departure from Istanbul
After breakfast, transfer to the airport Istanbul-Atatürk. Flight back home. |
