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Turkey

FETHIYE - SELCUK - EFEZ - IZMIR - AYVALIK - PERGAMON - AKHISAR - THIYATRA - PHILADELPHIA - ALASEHIR - PAMUKKALE

The price includes:

  • ACCOMMODATION AT THE HOTELS
  • MEALS MENTIONED IN THE PROGRAM
  • TRANSPORTATION BY COMFORT COACH
  • ENTRANCE FEES ACCORDING TO THE PROGRAMME
  • TOUR GUIDE
  • LOCAL GUIDES
  • ALL TAXES

Pilgrimage itinerary:

Day 1:  Arrival to Dalaman, transfer and accommodation at the hotel in FETHIYE, free time, return    to the hotel, dinner, overnight

Day 2:  Breakfast, the cruise on a yacht through 12 bays, return to the hotel in FETHIYE, dinner, overnight.

Day 3:  Breakfast, transfer to SELCUK, sightseeing the basilica ruins from the VI century, the basilica built by Justin an, the Caesar above Saint John, the Evangelist the expected grave, transfer to EFEZ – The biggest ancient city, sightseeing the ancient theatre for 25 thousand spectators where Saint Paul and Saint John Evangelist preached, a walk alongside the Arcadian and Marble Roads, alongside of which the Holy Virgin walked probably and where in 431 A.C. the ecumenical council accepted the dogma about Her Immaculate Conception and John Paul, Pope the II celebrated the Saint Mass, return to the hotel in KUSADASI, dinner, overnight.

Day 4:  Breakfast, transfer to IZMIR (the former Smyrna), sightseeing the Kadifekale (the Velvet Fortress) – fortifications built by Aleksander the Great, free time, return to the hotel in AYVALIK, dinner, overnight.

Day 5:  Breakfast, transfer to PERGAMON, sightseeing, among others: Kizil Avlu (the Red Basilica) from the III century, rests of the famous king’s library, the place where the Zeus’s altar stood, return to the hotel, dinner, overnight.

Day 6:  Breakfast, transfer to AKHISAR, THIYATRA and sightseeing the remaining after a Christian commune, transfer to SARDES The richest city of the ancient world, known because of the myth about Cresses, sightseeing a Jewish synagogue, the Artemis templeand the Byzantine church, return to the hotel, dinner, overnight.

Day 7:  Breakfast, transfer to PHILADELPHIA – ALASEHIR, city sightseeing, return to the hotel in PAMUKKALE, dinner,  overnight.

Day 8:  Breakfast, sightseeing the ruins of the Roman health resort – HIERAPOLIS, walk through travertine slopes of PAMUKKALE, transfer to FETHIYE, return to the hotel, dinner, overnight.

Day 9:  Staying in FETHIYE

Day 10:Breakfast, transfer to the airport, the end of the pilgrimage.

 

Price does not include:       

Flights tickets, beverages and personal extras, insurance.