1 Night 2 Days Pamukkale and Ephesus Tour (From Antalya)

Tour Info:

Tour Days: All year round
Duration: 2 Days
Status: Regular (also available in private basis)
Pick up time: To be confirmed

Note: This tour can be customized upon your request

Highlights:

• Pamukkale Cascades
• Ancient City of Hierapolis
• Ancient City of Ephesus
• Temple of Artemis
• House of Virgin Mary
• Isabey Mosque

Itinerary:

Day 1:

We will pick you up from your Antalya hotel and drive to Pamukkale Travertines and Hierapolis Ancient City which is considered one of the oldest thermal cities in the world with healing properties.

The chemical properties in the water created pure white colored travertines and stepped water terraces on the mountain slope.

Pamukkale area includes the Antique City Hierapolis, Necropolis, the Cleopatra Pool, and Red Water. You will have free time to relax and enjoy the surroundings.

After lunch, you can swim in thermal red waters. Then visit the travertines and the Ancient City of Hierapolis which has the biggest Necropolis with 1200 gravestones in Anatolia.

** Cleopatra Pool entrance requires an additional admission fee.

End of the tour you will be transferred to your Pamukkale hotel.

Overnight in Pamukkale

Day 2:

Your tour guide will pick you up from your Pamukkale hotel and depart to Ephesus to join our daily tour.

The first site to explore is the marble ruins of the ancient capital of Roman Asia. The Ancient City of Ephesus was the most important commercial center of western Anatolia and established as a port on the mouth of the river Cayster.

You will be guided to the Temple of Artemis which is known as one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world which has been built in the Ephesus area. You can see the remaining of the foundations from Hellenistic age which are made of marble and full of sculptured columns capitals and shafts.

After lunch in a local restaurant, we will drive to Bulbul Mountain to visit the House of Virgin Mary, the most popular place of pilgrimage for Catholics which is believed the Virgin Mary spent the remainder of her life.

We will drive back to town to visit the Isabey Mosque which is one of the best examples of Seljukian architecture, located below the Basilica of Saint John.

End of the tour we will transfer you to Izmir Airport for your flight to Antalya, on your arrival we will transfer you to your Antalya hotel.

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