WELLNESS TURKEY

Location: Istanbul

Meals Included: Breakfast

Enjoy an early morning meditation class with a local instructor before breakfast. Enjoy your daily tour guided by your tour leader exploring special spots of Istanbul including Hagia Sophia Mosque, Topkapi Palace and the Harem section, Sultanahmet Square, Rustem Pasha Mosque, Grand Bazaar and Spice Market.

This evening you will be attending

Activities Included: Tour of Istanbul’s old city and

Accommodation: Pera Palace Hotel or similar

Location: Cappadocia

Meals Included: Breakfast, wine tasting

Fly to the land of beautiful horses, Cappadocia this morning. Arrive in the afternoon and go for a quick walk in the valleys of Cappadocia. Next, you will enjoy attending wine tasting led by a wine master. Try the local wine with cheese and learn how Turks produce their wine in this neighborhood.

Activities Included: Wine tasting

Accommodation: Exedra Hotel or similar

Location: Cappadocia

Meals Included: Breakfast, homecooked dinner

Start your day very early and enjoy a yoga session in a valley led by a local instructor. After breakfast, you will hit the dusty roads of Cappadocia and visit Open Air Museum, followed by Özkonak Underground City. Next, you will attend to a carpet educational to learn more about this amazing handicraft culture in Turkey.

For dinner, you will be hosted by Mrs. Nuray, who is award winning chef and hosting guests at her cave house. You will learn tips about cooking health Turkish food!

Activities Included: Sun rise yoga session, Sightseeing in Cappadocia, Carpet educational, Homecooked Cappadocia

Accommodation: Exedra Hotel or similar

Location: Konya

Meals Included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Travel to one of the most spiritual city in Turkey, hometown of Rumi, Konya. It will take around 3 hours to get to Konya from Cappadocia. After arrival, you will pay a visit to the tomb of Rumi, who was the founder of Sufism and Whirling Dervish Ceremony. After your visit to the museum, you will head to a very special spot, to the atelier of the biggest felt master in the country. He will teach you how to make Sufi hat and other products made out of felt.

In the evening, you will head to the grand square close to the tomb of Rumi and watch a real Whirling Dervish ceremony.

Activities Included: Rumi Museum, Felt making workshop, Whirling Dervish Ceremony.

Accommodation: Konya Selcuk Hotel or similar

Location: Antalya – Kaş

Meals Included: Breakfast, lunch

Leave Konya for the long travel day today. First leg of the trip is off to Antalya (4 hours), biggest holiday resort in the country. You will visit Antalya Museum and enjoy lunch in a restaurant with sea view.

After your visit to the museum, you will hit the road again for another 4 hour drive, down to the small sea side town, Kaş. Enjoy a walk in Kaş after your arrival to the town with a dinner in a nice restaurant.

Activities Included: Antalya Museum, orientation walk in Kaş

Accommodation: Linda Hotel or similar

Location: Kaş

Meals Included: Breakfast, lunch, sunset drinks

Have a relaxed morning today, enjoy your breakfast on the terrace of your hotel with an amazing sea view. Around 10 am, you will head to Kekova, a small village with a big port where traditional wooden boats (gullet) are docked. You will embark to your private gullet and will enjoy a full day boat trip. Lunch will be served on board as well. After you enjoy swimming in crystal waters of Mediterranean Sea, you will have a yoga session during the sunset led by a local yoga guru. Right after yoga, you will enjoy drinks on the way back to the port.

Rest of the evening is at your leisure.

Activities Included: Full day boat trip, Sunset Yoga session on the boat

Accommodation: Linda Hotel or similar

Location: Kaş

Meals Included: Breakfast, lunch

Today you will put your walking shoes and head to the 4^th longest hiking trail in Europe, Lycian Way. You will hike around 4 hours – 10 kilometers from Sebeda to Antiphellos.

Your hike will start from Sebeda which is half an hour far from your hotel by minivan. You will have couple of breaks in different ancient harbors and stop for lunch at Limanagzi, where you will be able to find beautiful restaurants along the beach. After a light breakfast, you will hike back to Kaş.

Rest of the day is at your leisure.

Activities Included: Hiking on Lycian Way

Accommodation: Linda Hotel or similar

Location: Kaş

Meals Included: Breakfast, lunch

Today you will go back into water and enjoy half day sea kayaking activity! This is a trip that will introduce you to sea-kayaking in a famous and unique archeological site within a protected area. Discover the Shipyard Bay, Kekova Island and the mesmerizing Sunken City starting just above the sea surface and showcasing its mysterious walls, rooms carved into rocks and stairs. After the Sunken city, Simena with its castle built by the Knights of Malta will be waiting for you with its stunning panorama and its romantic walls.

You will head back to Kaş after lunch and rest of the day is at your leisure.

Activities Included: Sea kayaking over Sunken City

Accommodation: Linda Hotel or similar

Location: Istanbul

Meals Included: Breakfast, dinner

Early in the morning, you will drive to the airport and fly back to Istanbul. You will have a rest until late afternoon.

In the late afternoon, your tour leader will take you to a special place – Turkish Bath which will be reserved privately for your group. This is a great opportunity to chill before your long flights back home!  You will enjoy a scrub and massage session by experienced masseuse.

Your leader will take you to a special rooftop restaurant where you will enjoy your farewell dinner. We will say good bye until your next Turkey trip!

Activities Included: Hamam – Turkish bath private session

Accommodation: Pera Palace or similar

Location: Istanbul

Meals Included: Breakfast

Your trip will come to an end today after breakfast.