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SimgeNet PILGERIME Tours ept304

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SAINT PAUL

1. Day: Flight to ADANA Transfer to hotel.
2. Day: ADANA / ANTAKYA 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 Taurins 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 Transfer to the airport.


 
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