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"Turkey's
Black Sea Region" Day 1 - Istanbul Meet at Istanbul Airport and transfer to hotel, welcome cocktail and briefing, dinner & O/N in Istanbul. (D) Day 2- Istanbul Breakfast
and sightseeing in Istanbul, visit Topkapi Palace, Hagia Sophia, Blue
Mosque, Hippodrome and bargaining in The Covered Bazar, O/N in Istanbul.
(B-L-D)
Day 3 - Istanbul Breakfast and enjoy a leisurely cruise on the Bosphorus where the two continents, Europa & Asia, meet. O/N in Istanbul. (B-L-D) Day 4 - Istanbul - Safranbolu Breakfast and early drive to Safranbolu, visit Safranbolu houses and Yemeniciler Arastasi, Hidirlik Hill, dinner and O/N in Safranbolu. (B-L-D) Day 5 - Safranbolu - Sinop Breakfast and depart for Sinop, visit Kasaba village for a wooden mosque, Mahmutbey in Kastamonu on the way, arrive in Sinop and visit the museum which helds some of the best examples of Byzantine icons and Hamsilos Bay, dinner & O/N in Sinop. (B-L-D) Day 6 - Sinop - Ordu Breakfast, after visiting castle, depart for Ordu, visit Archeological Museumin Samsun, visit Boztepe facing the city, dinner & O/N in Ordu. (B-L-D)
Breakfast
and drive to Trabzon, visit Giresun Castle on the way, upon arrival
to Trabzon, study the extraordinary frescoes in St. Sophia, and Atatürk's
Mansion, a picturesque hilside retreat, dinner & O/N in Trabzon. (B-L-D) Day 8 - Trabzon Breakfast and a short drive takes us to Sumela, a towering monastery, clings to a sheer cliff-face, relax beside the fast flowing stream in Altindere Valley National Park, return to hotel and free time to shop in the old marked, O/N in Trabzon. (B-L-D)
Breakfast and depart for Uzungöl, an Alpine lake in the Pontic Alps, sightseeing in Uzungöl, dinner & O/N in Uzungöl. (B-L-D) Day 10 - Uzungöl - Ayder - Rize Breakfast
and driving through the beautiful Firtina Valley will take us to Ayder
with its waterfalls, stone bridges and hot springs, a short trekking
to the magnificient Kaçkar Mountains, dinner & O/N in Rize. (B-L-D) Day 11 - Rize - Trabzon - Istanbul Breakfast and transfer to Trabzon Airport for homebound flight via Istanbul and say farewell.... (B)
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Day
7 - Ordu - Trabzon
Day
9 - Trabzon - Uzungöl
