An example itinerary across Türkiye
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.
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.
Families with children of any age, and anyone who wants the sea at the end. From late May to early October the water is warm enough to make Bodrum the point of the journey; in April and late October the same route works with the coast as a quiet close rather than a beach.
A house on the Bosphorus, chosen so that children can walk to the water and parents can see it from bed. The old city with a guide on the second morning only; a hammam for the family alone; Topkapı by the quiet door before the groups; the Spice Market for the children's list. Dinner on the first evening comes to you, on the water.
The flight after breakfast, not the one at dawn. A house in the rock with a terrace for the sunset, one early morning for the balloons and breakfast waiting afterwards, a potter's wheel for small hands in Avanos, a long lunch in a village garden, and nothing after four.
South by air with a connection in Istanbul, planned so the day still ends with a swim. Four nights above a quiet bay. A boat for a day, with a captain who knows which coves are empty; Gümüşlük by boat for the sunset; a day with nothing booked and a table held in the old town in case. Ephesus is a long day from Bodrum: we would rather you chose it than inherited it.
The car is ordered around the flight. The last swim is before breakfast.
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.
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
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