3 Days Travel to Salda Lake, Ephesus, Pamukkale, Laodicea

3 Days Travel to Salda Lake, Ephesus, Pamukkale, Laodicea

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Features

Free cancellation available
3d
Mobile voucher
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Selective hotel pickup
Multiple languages

Overview

This 3 days Cappadocia trip package is including all return domestic flight tickets from Istanbul, cave hotel accomodation for two nights, full-day guided tours and airport transfers. You will visit to Devrent valley, Goreme open-air museum, Avanos, rock churches, unique landscape, rock-cut houses of Cappadocia, one of the best underground cities. Do not forget add a hot air balloon ride with discounted price to your booking for an even more unforgettable experience.

Activity location

Istanbul
- Istanbul, Turkiye

Meeting/Redemption Point

İstanbul
- İstanbul, İstanbul, Turkiye

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Silver Package: Max 10 Guests

3d
English

Accommodation: Misty Cave Hotel - Stay at Standard Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED - If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
quad bike Quad Bike Ride: INCLUDED - If your quad bike Quad Bike Ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of this activity
Tour Level: The guided tours on this travel package will be organised as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guided Tour Language: English
Pickup included

Travellers

Language options: English

Starting time: 4:00 am

Price details

NZ$2,547.48 x 1 AdultNZ$2,547.48

Total

Gold Package: Max 10 Guests

3d
English

Accommodation: Zeydem Suites Hotel - Stay at Superior Cave Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED - If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
quad bike Quad Bike Ride: INCLUDED - If your quad bike Quad Bike Ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of this activity
Tour Level: The guided tours on this travel package will be organised as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guided Tour Language: English
Pickup included

Travellers

Language options: English

Starting time: 4:00 am

Price details

NZ$2,747.29 x 1 AdultNZ$2,747.29

Total

Diamond Package: Max 10 Guests

3d
English

Accommodation: Yunak Evleri Hotel - Stay at Superior Cave Room
Hot Air Balloon Ride: INCLUDED - If your balloon ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of balloon ride.
quad bike Quad Bike Ride: INCLUDED - If your quad bike Quad Bike Ride is cancelled due to poor weather conditions, you will be refunded cost of this activity
Tour Level: The guided tours on this travel package will be organised as a semi-private tour, with a maximum of 10 guests per group.
Guided Tour Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese - Each languages are conducted using separate cars and guides from the others.
Pickup included

Travellers

Languages available

Starting time: 4:00 am

Price details

NZ$3,260.24 x 1 AdultNZ$3,260.24

Total

What's included, what's not

Transfers at the mentioned airports for domestic flights in the itinerary
Entrance fees (Tour guide will have pre-paid tickets to skip lines at museums mentioned itinerary)
2 full-day tours by professional tour guides who licenced by Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Return flight tickets from Istanbul to Cappadocia and back
Hotel / Airport pick-up & drop-off services mentioned in itinerary
Hot Air Balloon Ride, quad bike Quad Bike Ride
Two-nights stay with breakfast at cave boutique hotel
Dinner & Drinks

Know before you book

Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
Not recommended for pregnant travellers
Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
The airport pick-up service is valid for option of "from Airports in Cappadocia". If you do not choose that option while booking, local tour operator do not provide any pick-up service. This service is excluded on other options.
Notice to guests who booked the option of "from Airports in Cappadocia" !!! If your plane will be landing to Cappadocia airports after 08.30am, you can miss some visits of the tour. Because the daily guided tours are starting approximately 09.30am - 10.00am.
Hot air ballooning is a fully weather-dependent activity and the Civil Aviation Authority determines whether the flight will be held. If your flight is cancelled due to inclement weather conditions, you are entitled to a partial refund. In such a case, your refund will be processed by the day after of that trip.
The Standard Balloon Ride has an One-hour approximately flight duration with 20 to 28 people capacity basket. The flight duration could be 50-55 minutes or 65-70 minutes. This situation depend the weather conditions before landing, and pilots are decide to that within the safety rules of Civil Aviation Authority. Total activity duration is approximately 3 hours.
Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
This tour is not available for the bookings to children who are 17 years old and under.

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Flight to Denizli – Semi-Private Tour to Salda Lake - Accommodation at Pamukkale

5 stops
Meals: Not included
Accommodation: Included: When booking the tour, you have right to select your desired hotel category from a range of available choices.

Istanbul

Your Western Turkey experiences starts with a transfer to the airport. The driver will pick you up from the reception of your hotel or your Airbnb, as long as parking is available. From there, you'll be taken to the airport for your flight to Denizli.

Denizli Çardak Airport

Upon arrival Denizli/Cardak airport, your tour guide and another driver will meet you at the exit gate of arrival terminal and then start your Salda Lake tour.

Lake Salda

1h 30m

The overall attraction is the scenery with the white sand and the different shades of blue in the water, which is rich in magnesium sulphate. It’s a must to take your camera gear for some memories. We recommend to take sandals to because of the harsh gravelly sand. The lake is surrounded by mountains and there is just one village around, that’s why the lake is very clean.

Pamukkale

After visit to amazing Salda Lake, you will be transferred to your Thermal Hotel in Pamukkale. The thermal hotel where will you stay invites you to rejuvenate both physically and emotionally. Enjoy your time today.

pamukkale tandem paragliding

30m
Admission ticket not included

Pamukkale Paragliding Adventure (Optional Attraction – You can add this attraction to your experiences with extra cost.) : See Pamukkale’s glistening white travertine and ancient Hierapolis, including the enormous theatre, from the air on this short-but-sweet paragliding experience with a seasoned pilot. You will race off the edge of a slope about 1,300 feet (400 metres) up, then glide on the breezes over the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Day 2: Semi-Private Tour to Pamukkale, Hierapolis, Laodicea – Accommodation at Kusadasi

10 stops
Meals: breakfast, lunch
Accommodation: Included: When booking the tour, you have right to select your desired hotel category from a range of available choices.

Pamukkale Natural Park

Pamukkale Turkey, a must-visit destination for Nature and History lovers. For centuries, people have been coming here and going home restful. Today’s guided tour provide you experiences at the white travertenies of Pamukkale and ancient city of Hierapolis which are located in Pamukkale Natural Park.

Hierapolis & Pamukkale

1h
Admission ticket not included

The highlights of Hierapolis Ancient City are Necropolis, Roman Baths, Domitian Gate, Latrina, Oil Factory, Frontinus Street, Agora, Byzantium Gate, Triton Fountain, Cathedral, Apollon Temple, Plutonium, Theatre and Antique Pool. During visits to these ancient ruins, you can take some photos from the nicest corners of the Pamukkale.

Pamukkale Thermal Pools

After visited the Hierapolis Ancient City, you will have free time for about 60-75 minutes to explore the natural beauties of the Pamukkale, and swim at white travertines - thermal pools (or antique pool - Cleopatra’s pool with extra fee). Then meet again with your guide, start walking in the middle of travertines from up to down without shoes and socks.

Cleopatra Pools

30m
Admission ticket not included

Situated above the Pamukkale white travertine pools is one particularly spectacular location fed by the same hot springs. Here you can bath in the same waters in which Cleopatra once swam! A professionally run modern spa facility allows you to enjoy these historical healing waters. Unlike the white water of the lower pools the Antique Pool favoured by Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, is pure clear warm water. Once it was surmounted by a Roman Temple to Apollo with ornate roof held up with Doric columns. Imagine how Cleopatra must have experienced this when you imagine it in it's glory day.

Pamukkale

You will stop at a local restaurant for your lunch. Today’s lunch is included during guided tour.

Karahayit

After the lunch, you will have experience traditional handcraft workshop for get lecture about the special stones/metals of Pamukkale.

Laodicea

1h
Admission ticket not included

Excavations here have revealed artefacts dating from 3500 BC (Late Chalcolithic) to 3000 BC (Early Bronze Age). The city’s name comes from the Seleucid king Antiochus ii, who named it for his wife Laodike in the 3rd century BC when it was thriving. Later controlled by the kings of Pergamum, it was willed to the Roman Empire, and thrived again from the 4th to 6th centuries. Its importance then numbered it among the Seven Churches of Revelation.

Kusadasi

2h 30m

After your tour to Pamukkale Natural Park - Hierapolis Ancient City - Laodicea Ancient City, you will be transferred to your hotel in Kusadasi.

Kusadasi Castle

This small castle is picturesque Byzantine fortress stands on the causeway-connected Guvercin Adasi (Pigeon Island) and has recently been renovated. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. You can visit there by your own after we dropped you to your hotel in Kusadasi.

Okuz Mehmet Pasa KervansarayI

This caravanserai was built by the Grand Vizier Okuz Mehmed Pasha to support maritime trade in the region. This historical building is opposite to Kusadasi cruise port. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. You can visit there by your own after we dropped you to your hotel in Kusadasi.

Day 3: Semi-Private Tour to Ephesus and Its Surroundings - Flight from Izmir to Istanbul – or Flight from Izmir to Cappadocia

11 stops
Meals: breakfast, lunch
Accommodation: Not included

Kuşadası

After enjoying breakfast at your hotel, the tour guide will pick you up around 09:00 AM for a full-day tour to Ephesus and its surroundings. *** At the end of the tour, you will be directly transferred to Izmir Airport for your flight back to Istanbul (or a flight from Izmir to Cappadocia if you prefer connect this trip to Cappadocia. The flight ticket from Izmir to Cappadocia will be included for option of “Diamond Package”). Please remember to check out of your hotel and collect your luggage before heading out for the Ephesus tour.

Kusadasi Gazi Begendi Park

Before drive to Ephesus area, you will stop at the Gazi Begendi Park (Hill) for you can take photos of the amazing Kusadasi Bay.

Ancient City of Ephesus

1h 30m
Admission ticket not included

Your first visit will be the Ephesus Ancient City. Ephesus was one of the most important harbour cities in antique world and also it is mentioned in the book of Revelations as one of the seven churches. Also Celsus Library and theatre in Ephesus are the other highlights. You will see the Celcus Library, Temple of Hadrian, Fountain of Trajan, Odeon, Agora, Fountain of Domitian, Hercule Gate, Grand Theatre, Nike, Ancient Toilets and more during tour in this ancient city.

Ephesus Experience Museum

The Ephesus Experience Museum provides an immersive journey into Turkey’s rich cultural and historical heritage. By leveraging cutting-edge display systems and advanced content technologies, it offers visitors a captivating time travel experience that brings the past to life in a profoundly engaging way.

Ephesus Terrace Houses

The terrace houses are located on the hill, opposite the Hadrian Temple. Also called as "the houses of rich", important for the reason give us information about family life during the Roman period. They were built according to the Hippodamian plan of the city in which roads transected each other at right angels. *** There is no any visit to this place on tour. The tour guide will provide you information about the history of it and more while passing from in front of this place.

Meryemana (The Virgin Mary's House)

45m
Admission ticket not included

Your next visit will be the pilgrimage point claimed to be the last home of the Virgin Mary. Once you arrive there you will be thrilled by the natural beauty that surrounds the monument.

Selcuk

You will stop at a traditional Turkish restaurant for your lunch. Today’s lunch is included during guided tour. After the lunch, you will have experience in a traditional handcraft co-operative for get lecture about the special arts of Turkish villagers.

The Temple of Artemis

The next stop of your tour will be at the Temple of Artemis which first built during the Archaic period, and one of the Seven Wonders of Ancient World.

Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport

At the end of the tour, you will be transferred to Izmir airport for your flight to back to Istanbul. (or flight to Kayseri if you preferred connect this trip to Cappadocia district.)

İstanbul

Upon your arrival Istanbul, we will meet you at the airport and then you will be transferred to your hotel in Istanbul.

Cappadocia

If you would like connect this trip to Cappadocia district by a flight, you have to book the option of "Diamond Package". The flight ticket from Izmir to Cappadocia, and transfer from Cappadocia airport to your hotel in Cappadocia dsitrict will be include. You will not have any right about the flight ticket for return to Istanbul after you preferred that flight.

Location

Activity location

Istanbul
- Istanbul, Turkiye

Meeting/Redemption Point

İstanbul
- İstanbul, İstanbul, Turkiye
Uçhisar
- Uçhisar, Nevşehir, Turkiye
Göreme
- 50180, Göreme, Nevşehir, Turkiye
Ürgüp
- Ürgüp, Nevşehir, Turkiye
Pamukkale
- 20190, Pamukkale, Denizli, Turkiye

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