An example itinerary across Türkiye
The other Türkiye: three nights in the city, then five in the green north-east, where forest comes down to the sea, tea grows on the terraces above Rize, and the high summer pastures sit above the clouds.
An example itinerary. It shows how a journey here can be shaped; it is not a fixed product, and yours would be designed around you.
People on a second visit, or a first visit who want none of the beaches. Walkers, eaters, and anyone who likes a landscape to be green. June to September, when the high pastures are open; late summer for the hazelnut harvest. It rains here, and the rain is the point.
The first afternoon empty, dinner on the water. The old city with a historian on the second morning. On the third day, Istanbul as the city eats: a breakfast that takes the morning and lunch where the tradesmen eat.
About an hour and three quarters by air to Trabzon, and your own car and driver from there. A day in the yaylas, the high summer pastures above the forest, with a family who spends the season there. A morning on the tea terraces above Rize. In late summer, a day of the hazelnut harvest with a family in the hills, and the lunch that follows it. Uzungöl in the mountains behind Trabzon, early, before the coaches. One monastery built into a cliff, if you want it, and we would say which.
Back to Istanbul by air for the flight home, or a last night in the city if the times are kind.
Longer or shorter, slower or fuller, with children or without, with another region added: everything here can change. Tell us who is travelling and we will redraw it.
The price of a journey depends on the season, the hotels and the number of people travelling, so it is written into your dossier, not printed here.
The first journey most people make: four nights in the city, three in the valleys, one short flight between them. Enough time to see the famous places without the famous queues, and to have an afternoon with nothing in it.
Three worlds in eleven nights: the city, the valleys, then a week by the water where nothing starts before ten. The shape of most of the journeys we design, and the one the sample dossier on our homepage was written around.
Read this journey: Istanbul, Cappadocia and Bodrum, eleven nights
Ten nights for two, arranged so that the journey gets quieter as it goes: three nights in the city, three in the valleys, four by the sea with the schedule gone.
Read this journey: A honeymoon: Istanbul, Cappadocia and the Aegean
We will design the rest around you. A travel designer reads every message and replies personally.
