| DESTINATIONS
BY CITY & REGION
ISTANBUL, with
its Blue
Mosque, Hagia
Sophia, Topkapi
Palace, Hippodrome, Bosphorus
cruises, Grand
Bazaar and plenty
more...
EDIRNE & Thrace, European
Turkey, an easy
day-trip or overnight excursion from Istanbul. Details...
BURSA & Iznik
(Nicaea), sail
across the Sea
of Marmara to enjoy
early Ottoman
architecture and great food on
a day-trip
or overnight excursion from Istanbul. More...
ÇANAKKALE,
Gallipoli & Dardanelles Battlefields
of ancient Troy and World
War I, a long day-trip or
(better) overnight from
Istanbul. Details...
IZMIR,
EPHESUS & Aegean Coast, Bergama
(Pergamum), Çesme & Alaçati, Ephesus, Bodrum, Pamukkale, beaches, history,
seafood, figs, olives,
classical ruins, sun, sand
and sea
ANTALYA & Mediterranean
Coast: most popular
seaside resorts from Marmaris via Dalyan, Dalaman, Fethiye, Ölüdeniz, Kalkan, Kas, Olimpos, Antalya, Side and Alanya to Adana and Antakya. Here's
the full list.
ANKARA & Central
Anatolia Turkey's
modern capital, Konya and whirling
dervishes, and lots
more.
CAPPADOCIA,
Göreme & Ürgüp "Moonscape" terrain,
cave churches and cave
hotels, and breathtaking hot-air
balloon flights
TRABZON & Black
Sea Coast Land
of Argonauts,
the Golden Fleece,
cherries, hazelnuts, tobacco, tea,
and dramatic scenery,
from Sinop and Samsun to Trabzon
ERZURUM & Eastern
Turkey Wild, beautiful,
an untamed national park,
with white-water
rafting in the Kaçkar
Mts, Kars, Ani, Erzurum, Mt
Ararat, Dogubeyazit, Lake
Van & mythic Nemrut
Dagi.
DIYARBAKIR & Southeastern
Turkey Biblical
history, pistachio nuts,
the Tigris &
Euphrates, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa (Edessa)
and Old-Testament Harran
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