Top Istanbul Holiday Packages For An Exquisite And Wholesome Trip 5 Days & 4 Nights

Welcome to Istanbul Airport. Following the passport control and customs, you’ll be greeted by our representative at the airport. You’ll be privately transferred from the airport to hotel. Post check-in rest of the day would be at leisure. After lunch at a local restaurant you will have the full afternoon to self-explore the major attractions and enjoy shopping and sightseeing around the city. Later, return to the hotel for an overnight stay.

This day of Istanbul tour package includes visits to historical sites and museums. Following tasty breakfast, you’ll be picked up from hotel to visit the Hippodrome, The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts.Continue with the Blue Mosque, famous for its delicate blue ceramic tiles and then Saint Sophia (Aya Sofya), primarily a church – turned mosque – turned museum, to the sheer architectural size of its interior and magnificent dome.

The city tour continues with a visit to the spectacular Topkapi Palace Built on one of the seven hills of Istanbul, this huge complex commands views of the Sea of Marmara, The Bosphorus and the Golden Horn. It was the seat of government for the Ottoman Empire for many centuries (1453-1852) and see the extravagant Treasury, the priceless Chinese porcelain. Today, exploration of Istanbul's treasures concludes with a visit to the bustling Grand Bazaar( Covered bazaar - Kapalicarsi), with its more than 4000 shops and stalls. Enjoy shopping for almost anything but the bazaar is best known for jewelry, carpets, textile, garments, spices, etc.

If time permits the tourists will be taken for dinner at Bosphorus, Watching one of the best silhouettes in the world with Topkapi Palace, Blue Mosque, Bosphorus waterway which brings the two continents Europe and Asia. Overnight stay at the hotel.

After a delicious breakfast in the hotel, the tour of Bursa (former capital of Ottoman Empire before Istanbul) will commence. To reach Bursa, one of the most visited tourist sites in Turkey, you will first drive in ferryboat to Yalova and then drive to Bursa enjoying the lovely countryside.

For lunch you’ll taste the famous,”Kebap of Alexander The Great”, and then proceed to ?nkaya Plane Tree. After a short coffee break, you will travel to Uludag where you will climb the legendary Mount Olympos, by cable car. If the weather conditions are inconvenient and Uludag is canceled, extra sightseeing in Bursa will be supplemented. Your beautiful day will end with visits to Ulucami (Grand Mosque), the Green Mosque and the Green Mausoleum, and then old Silk Market in the Covered Bazaar. Late in the evening, you will return to Istanbul for the overnight stay in your hotel.

Post breakfast in the hotel, you’ll be free to do whatever you like until noon. Afternoon visits will start with the beautiful Dolmabahce Palace, on the Bosphorus. Built during Turkish Renaissance style between 1843 and 1856, the palace has 285 rooms, 46 halls, four grand salons, six galleries and six baths, famous with great collection of European antiquity, furniture and 4.5 tons chandelier. Then, drive through the Bosphorus Bridge and pass between continents, a unique chance to step from one continent (Europe) to another (Asia) in minutes. You’ll also get a chance to see Istanbul from Camlica Hill exposing a panoramic view of Istanbul and Bosphorus. After the tour, you would be transferred to your hotel for an overnight stay

On the last day of your trip in Istanbul, have breakfast and move along the traces of history at Balat viewing Metal Church of St. Stephen the Bulgarian, Jewish Hospital (Or-Ahayim), Fener Orthodox Patriarchate and 22-km long Byzantine City Walls, strongest fortification of the middle age. Pass by Golden Horn, a natural harbor of the historical peninsula separating the old and the new parts of Istanbul. Continue to your excursions with the Spice Bazaar full of mystical smells of different aromas of various spices.

Your Istanbul Tour package will further proceed by a memorable boat trip on the Bosphorus, the waterway separating the two continents, Europe and Asia, with a possibility to take photographs of marble palaces, ancient wooden villas of Ottoman architecture besides modern residents and luxurious apartments. While passing by, vision the Imperial Gardens of Yildiz Palace, Ciragan Palace and Beylerbeyi Palace from the sea. Disembark at Rumeli Fortress (no interior visit), where you will have a lunch. Post lunch, you would be free to do self-exploration of the city. After which you’ll be privately dropped to the Airport to International Flights Terminal for your homebound flight marking the end of your holiday in Istanbul.