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8 Days Cooking and Wine Tasting Tour Turkey
About This Tour
Welcome to Turkey! If you would like to see something different in your life and if you like cooking or want to learn how to cook, we offer you very special itinerary to learn very good Turkish cuisines with smiling and friendly Turkish people. The best Cooking tour and Wine Tasting in Turkey including destinations such Istanbul - Kusadasi - Ephesus - Pamukkale & Cappadocia. This is an exquisite tour for you with all the bells and whistles. There are no long bus rides just domestic flights getting you to your destination comfortably and relaxed.
Tour Highlights
Gourmet
Turkish Cuisine
Istanbul Old City
Ephesus Ancient City
Wine Tasting
Calcium Terraces of Pamukkale
Bosphorus Cruise
Goreme Open Air Museum
Cappadocia
Shopping
Itinerary
Istanbul Tour - Arrival Day
(Welcome dinner included)
Welcome to Turkey, arrival into Istanbul. Transfer from airport and check in to your hotel, offers a welcome drink and a chat with gourmet experts in Turkish cuisine. Tonight, you will have a welcome dinner, be introduced to our friendly crew and other travelers while enjoying traditional Turkish food and enjoy the mystical atmosphere of Istanbul at night. Overnight in Istanbul.
Istanbul City Tour - Turkish Cooking Lesson Istanbul
(Breakfast included)
After a morning orientation, sightseeing tour of Istanbul, you participate in your first Turkish cooking lesson: During our Istanbul cooking tour, you will taste various flavors of Turkey from different regions, preparing lunch which you will enjoy! After lunch, we visit to TOPKAPI PALACE. The great palace of the Ottoman sultans from the 15th to the 19th centuries housing an exquisite collection of crystal, 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. Overnight in Istanbul.
Istanbul Bosphorus Cruise - Istanbul to Izmir and Kusadasi
(Breakfast and Dinner included)
After breakfast, we depart for Bosphorus Cruise tour. Enjoy a magical Istanbul Bosphorus Boat Cruise starting at 08.30. BOSPHORUS BY BOAT a traditional excursion by boat along the waterway separating Europe and Asia. Lunch break at the Turkish restaurant. After the lunch, we depart for Istanbul airport for domestic flight to Izmir. Transfer from airport and check in to your hotel in Kusadasi. Dinner and overnight in Kusadasi.
Ephesus Tour and Sirince Village Wine Making- Tasting
(Breakfast and Dinner included)
At 08.30, departure from hotel. Guided tour of Ephesus, one of the best preserved ancient sites in the world, visiting the Temple of Artemis, Curetes street, famous Roman baths, Celsus Library, Grand theatre and you will have a Lunch break at a small Turkish restaurant. After Lunch, we will visit to Sirince Village that also has a fantastic reputation for making some of the best wines in Turkey - especially fruit wines. We will visit the vineyards and it is time to learn how to make fruit wine with Turkish wine makers. In the evening, you will be tested about your knowledge of making fruit wine. On the way to hotel, we will visit a place which continues to perform one of the oldest arts of Turkey; a carpet weaving centre. Dinner and overnight in Kusadasi.
Kusadasi - Pamukkale Tour
(Breakfast and Dinner included)
At 08.30, we depart for Pamukkale. We will check in the hotel around 12.00 and we have a lunch break until 13.30. Afterwards, we shall visit the calcium terraces of Pamukkale (cotton castle) and the ruins of Hierapolis then walk around this natural phenomenon and have the option of lying in the waters of the natural springs. Dinner and overnight in Kusadasi.
Kusadasi - Izmir to Nevsehir / Kayseri airport and Cappadocia
(Breakfast and dinner included)
After breakfast, we depart for Izmir airport for our domestic flight to Cappadocia. Transfer from Kayseri airport to your Cave hotel. The rest of the day is yours to explore in Cappadocia. Dinner and overnight in a Cave Hotel in Cappadocia.
Cooking Lesson and Cappadocia Tour
(Breakfast and Dinner included)
After having had breakfast, participants will take part in the another cooking lesson in Cappadocia. You will have the opportunity to taste great food of Central Turkey, including pancakes and tasting kebab. In the afternoon we visit Goreme Open Air Museum, the Heart of Cappadocia. Goreme Open Air Museum is famous for frescoes dating to 10th century describing the life of Jesus Christ and monks. Next stop is Cavusin, which is an abandoned village with old cave Greek houses, visit a pottery work shop, to see how to make potteries. Then you go Pasabagi where you can see three-headed fairy chimneys. Dinner and overnight in Cappadocia.
Cappadocia to Istanbul - End of Tour
(Breakfast included)
After breakfast, you will have free time shopping in Cappadocia. Today we depart for Kayseri airport for our domestic flight to Istanbul and then back to home. 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 TravelShop Booking.