DAY 1, SUNDAY :
Meet
at Izmir Airport, transfer to your hotel. You may join, if time
allows, our complimentary, "Half-Day IZMIR CITY" Tour.
Overnight in IZMIR.
DAY 2, MONDAY :
Depart
to visit PERGAMUM, the ancient city where parchment was invented.
Tour the ACROPOLIS, the city built on four terraces perched upon a
hill overlooking the Bergama Plain, with the “Steepest Theater of
the Ancient World”, and then tour the ASCLEPION (the famous ancient
medical center dedicated to Asclepios, “the God of Healing and
Medicine”, and where Galen, the famous surgeon, taught). Return for
overnight in IZMIR.
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DAY 3, TUESDAY :
Depart
to SARDIS (the Lydian capital city). Tour
the ancient Synagogue, the Gymnasium, the Marble Road, and
the remains of the Artemis Temple, symbolizing one of “The Seven
Churches of Anatolia”. Then proceed to Alasehir
to visit PHILADELPHIA, and to PAMUKKALE, the “Cotton Castle”.
Dinner and overnight in PAMUKKALE.
(Optionally
you may enjoy a therapeutic hot bath in the mineral spring waters of
your hotel’s pool)..
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DAY 4, WEDNESDAY :
Tour
the snow-white limestone terraces and the ancient healing city of
HIERAPOLIS; the Main Street and Gates, the Thermal Baths, the Roman
Theater, and the magnificently preserved cemetery “Necropolis”. Then
visit APHRODISIAS, the city of Aphrodite; tour the Odeon, the
Stadium, the Agora, the Hadrian Baths, and the Bishop’s
Palace. For dinner and overnight, continue to the beautiful
Aegean resort town KUSADASI
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DAY 5, THURSDAY :
Full
Day tour of the ancient city of EPHESUS, a bustling metropolis at
the turn of the Christian era, visiting Celsus Library, Arcadian
Road, Roman Baths, the Theater (where St. Paul preached), the Church
of Virgin Mary, and the Basilica of St. John (the evangelist who
accompanied Virgin Mary to Ephesus), and then the HOUSE OF VIRGIN
MARY. Thereafter, tour the Ephesus Museum in Selcuk. Dinner and
overnight in KUSADASI.
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DAY 6, FRIDAY :
FREE DAY IN
KUSADASI.
(We suggest the
PRIENE-MILETUS-
DIDYMA Tour).
Transfer to the Izmir Airport for your flight, or alternatively
you may continue with another ATC Mini-Tour, such as ATC-BOD or ATC-BVB.
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