An example itinerary across Türkiye
Three nights in the city, then six on the coast where the Lycians cut their tombs into the cliffs: clear water under pale rock, ruined cities a short drive apart, and a boat of your own that leaves before the day boats do.
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.
Couples and families who want the sea and the past in the same week, and who would rather walk a ruined city at eight in the morning than queue for it at noon. From April to June and in September and October the coast is at its best; July and August are for the water, with the ancient cities kept for the cooler hours.
The first afternoon is left empty. The old city with a historian on the second morning, from the doors of Hagia Sophia at opening, then an afternoon that is yours. On the third evening, the Bosphorus from your own boat as the bridges light up.
About an hour and a quarter by air to Antalya, then the coast road west with your own car and driver. Six nights above the water between Kaş and Kalkan. One early morning, Kekova by your own boat, out of Kaş before the day boats, the sunken city under the hull and a swim in a bay nobody else has reached. Another day, Patara and Xanthos with an archaeologist, two of the great Lycian cities a short drive apart, and the long beach at Patara afterwards. The cove at Kaputaş, early or late. Between them, days with nothing in them but lunch by the water.
Back along the coast to Antalya for the flight, with the old town of Kaleiçi for a last lunch if the times allow. The car is ordered around the flight.
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.
