This 4-day Turkey tour is an adventure that takes you through Istanbul. You can explore the city’s rich cultural heritage and visit some of its most famous landmarks, such as the Blue Mosque and St. Sophia. this tour is perfect for those who want to make the most of their time in Istanbul.
4-day Turkey tour - Classic Istanbul
4-day Istanbul city tour: St. Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Egyptian Bazaar, Bosphorus cruise and Grand Bazaar. Airport transfers, 3-4 star hotels included.
Product SKU: TR4/IST/IST
Product Brand: RJ Travel - Tour Operator
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Istanbul
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Istanbul
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3-star and 4-star hotels
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Istanbul, The Roman Hippodrome, St. Sophia, The Blue Mosque, Egyptian Bazaar, Topkapi Palace, Grand Bazaar, The Bosphorus, Dolmabahce, Beylerbeyi, Çamlica Hill
4-day Turkey itinerary
Met at Istanbul Airport and driven into the only city on Earth that stands on two continents. Istanbul has been the capital of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires under three different names, and it has never once stopped mattering. The evening is yours — walk down to the water and watch the ferries cross to Asia.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
The old city on foot. The Hippodrome, where Byzantine chariot races drew a hundred thousand people and where an Egyptian obelisk from 1450 BC still stands. Hagia Sophia — a cathedral for 900 years, a mosque for 500, and for a while a museum; its dome was the largest in the world for a millennium and the engineering still isn't fully understood. The Blue Mosque with its twenty thousand İznik tiles. Topkapi, from which the Ottomans ran three continents for four hundred years. You finish in the Grand Bazaar — four thousand shops, sixty streets, roofed and roaring since 1461.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
The Spice Bazaar first — saffron, dried figs, Turkish delight, and the smell of the place, which is the point. Then out onto the Bosphorus by boat, the strait that divides Europe from Asia and that every navy in history has wanted. You pass wooden yalı mansions, Ottoman fortresses and the palaces of the last sultans: Dolmabahçe, where 14 tonnes of gold leaf cover the ceilings and Atatürk died in a modest bed, and Beylerbeyi on the Asian shore. Up to Çamlıca Hill for the view back across the whole city.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
A final Turkish breakfast — which is a proper spread, not a croissant — and a private transfer to the airport. End of our services.
