1. Day: Flight to ADANA Transfer to hotel.
2. Day: ADANA Full day trip from Adana via Issus, where Alexander the Great won over the King Darius, to Antakya, the ancient Antioch. Antakya is one of the biggest cities in the time of Jesus and one of the most important communities of early Christianity, where the term "Christian" was introduced for the first time. In Antakya we will visit Saint Peter's cave and the Mosaic Museum and then drive back to Adana.
3. Day: ADANA / CAPPADOCIA Trip from Adana to Tarsus, the birthplace of the peoples Apostle, Saint Paul. After visiting the fountain of Saint Paul we continue on to Cappadocia. Here we visit the underground city of Derinkuyu, where up to 16.000 people, especially Christians, hid from persecution.
4. Day: CAPPADOCIA Day tour to the moon like landscape of Cappadocia. We visit the open air museum Göreme Valley with wonderful cave churches and Zelve Valley with unique rock pyramids. There we will climb up the hill of Uchisar and have a wonderful view of Cappadocia. After a visit to the Monasteries in the Ihlara Valley and Cavusin's rock houses.
5. Day: CAPPADOCIA / KONYA Tour via Aksaray and Sultanhani and on to Konya, the ancient Ioconicum, which was visited by Saint Paul the Apostle. Here we see the Selcuk ruins and a whirling dervishes monastery, as well as the tomb of the Mystic Mevlana.
6. Day: KONYA / ANTALYA Tour through the Taurus mountains to the Mediterranean coast. Then a visit to Aspendus, one of the best preserved Roman theatres and to the ancient town of Perge, one of Saint Paul's preaching stops. We will continue to Antalya, the arrival port of Saint Paul and today the center of Turkish tourism.
7. Day: ANTALYA / PAMUKKALE Trip inland via Tavas to Pamukkale. Pamukkale means cotton castle and was created by chalk deposits from the warm spring water. Here we visit the ancient Hierapolis ruins and nearby we go to Laodicea, one of the Seven Churches.
8. Day: PAMUKKALE / KUSADASI Visits to the Selcuk: The Saint John's Basilica, the house where Mother Mary should have died, and the excavations of the city Ephesus, called the Queen of Ionia and one of the most important cities.
9. Day: KUSADASI / AYVALIK Trip to Izmir, the ancient Smyrna After a short sightseeing trip through Izmir. Continuation inland to Sardes, homeland of the Persian Satraps and ancient capitol of the King Croesus. Then a trip to Pergamum and a visit to the Acropolis, the Red Hall and the Asclepium.
10. Day: AYVALIK / CANAKKALE We will cross the gulf of Edremit to Assos, where Saint Paul studied and worked. We continue to Troy, the ideal homeland of Alexander and there we will visit the ruins excavated by the German archaeologist Schliemann.
11. Day: CANAKKALE / ISTANBUL We cross the Dardanelle's by ferry boat to Istanbul. In the afternoon we visit the Chora Monastery Church which is decorated with the beautiful mosaics of thw late Byzantine period.
12. Day: ISTANBUL Full day city tour according. "Ottoman and Byzantine Istanbul" Full day city sightseeing tour of Istanbul's monuments. It begins with the Süleyman Mosque, the work of architect Mimar Sinan, and one of the most beautiful mosques of the city. Then it continues to the Hippodrome, a Roman arena where horse carriage races and gladiator fights took place. You can see the snake column, the Egyptian obelisk and the German fountain. Afterwards there is a visit to the famous Blue Mosque unique for its exquisite blue tiles and its six minarets. The program continues with a visit to Santa Sophia, one of the most important church monuments in the Christian world. After lunch we visit Topkapi Palace, the old residence of the Ottoman Sultans which contains the treasures of the times. In the afternoon there is a walking tour in the Covered Bazaar with its thousands of shops unique in atmosphere
13. Day: Flight back from ISTANBUL Transfer to the airport.