Itinerary

1. Day 1: Arrive

   • Arrive in Istanbul and meet your tour guide. Transfer to your hotel to get some rest after travelling. (Opportunity to explore the hotel's area on your own.)

   (Optional $50 per person) 

   • Leave your hotel at about 19:30 and go to the port to board the first-class boat to watch the entertainment shows accompanied by a fascinating Bosphorus view. While you have your dinner on the boat, admire the night views of Maiden's Tower, shores and manor houses on both sides of Bosphorus, Bosphorus Bridge and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, which connect Asia and Europe like a necklace. 

   • Enjoy traditional Turkish dances and lissom belly dancers.

   • At the end of the program, reach the port to return to your hotel.

2. Day 2: Half Day Tour Ottoman relics

   • In the morning, leave your hotel after breakfast and move through the heart of the "old city", where the Byzantine and ottoman empires were built. The first place that you will see is "hippodrome" where sportive and political activities were taken in the byzantine term. 

   • After the serpentine column and the German fountain, see Theodosius obelisk and blue mosque, which was built for Sultan Ahmet and has blue Iznik ceramics and six minarets. 

   • After that, go to Topkapi Palace to visit it from inside.

   • After you finish this tour, head to the Bosphorus cruise in the afternoon, have lunch along the Bosphorus to the Black Sea and then, head back to the hotel.

3. Day 3: Byzantine Empire

   • After breakfast, visit the tombs of the sultans, Aya Sophia Museum and then, head to the grand bazaar, which has over 4000 shops and is considered the biggest covered bazaar in history.

   • Return to the hotel after the tour.

4. Day 4: Dolmapahca Palace Tour

   • After breakfast at the hotel, start with a visit to Dolmapahca Palace with your Istanbul tour guide, built between 1843 and 1856 by order of 31 sultans from the Ottoman era and contain 365 rooms and 22 halls. It was the presidential palace in the Ataturk era.

   • After that, head to Camlica Hill to admire the view of Istanbul from the top.

   • Return to the European side of Istanbul to get free time in Ortakoy to taste a Turkish coffee and smoke Shisha beside the sea at the back to the hotel.

5. Day 5: Free Day

   • Enjoy a free day at leisure.

6. Day 6: Free Day

   • Enjoy a free day at leisure.

7. Day 7: Depart

   • Meet your tour guide in the hotel lobby to transfer back to the Istanbul airport and take your flight to your next destination.