1. Day: Flight to IZMIR Transfer to hotel.
2. Day: KUSADASI / PAMUKKALE A visit to Ephesus, one of the largest antique cities and most beautiful excavation of its time. Then a visit to Saint John's Basilica, one of the Council churches, and a visit to the home of Mother Mary where she died. We will go on to Pamukkale which means cotton castle. Pamukkale was created by chalk deposits from the hot springs water. Then a visit to the antique city of Hierapolis and it's unique necropolis.
3. Day: PAMUKKALE / KONYA A long trip inland via Beysehir and Egridir lakes to Konya, one of the important agricultural produce cities in Turkey. Here we visit the Selcuk ruins and the Mausoleum of the Mystic Mevlana
4. Day: KONYA / CAPPADOCIA Tour to Sultanhani and on to Cappadocia. After a visit to the Monasteries in the Ihlara Valley and Cavusin's rock houses.
5. 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. We visit the underground city of Derinkuyu, where up to 16.000 people, especially Christians, hid from persecution.
6. Day: CAPPADOCIA / ANTALYA Tour through the Taurus mountains to the Mediterranean coast to Antalya. Then a visit to Aspendos, one of the best preserved Roman theatres and to the ancient town Perge, one of Saint Paul's perching stops.
7. Day: ANTALYA Free day in a Beach Hotel.
8. Day: Flight back from ANTALYA Transfer to the airport.