Southeast Anatolia Tour (Nemrut, Gobeklitepe, Zeugma)

Overview

Day by day itinerary

1. 1Cappadocia to Adıyaman⌄

   The Karatay Han was built on the old Kayseri-Malatya road, part of the main trade route into Syria. The areas of the towns and villages surrounding the hans turned into small commercial centers. The Karatay Han in the 13th century stood at a junction of roads leading from Syria, Iraq, eastern Anatolia and Iran to Kayseri and Sivas. It is hard to imagine that the quiet rural village of today was once a teeming trade center.

   Meals: Lunch · Dinner

   Overnight: Overnight stay in 4 or 5 stars hotel

2. 2Nemrut National Park and Göbeklitepe⌄

   Crowning one of the highest peaks of the Eastern Taurus mountain range in south-east Turkey, Nemrut Dağ is the Hierotheseion (temple-tomb and house of the gods) built by the late Hellenistic King Antiochos I of Commagene (69-34 B.C.) as a monument to himself.

   Located in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia, this property presents monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures erected by hunter-gatherers in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic age between 9,600 and 8,200 BCE.

   Meals: Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner

   Overnight: Overnight stay in 4 or 5 stars hotel

3. 3Gaziantep Zeugma Mosaic Museum and Taste Trip⌄

   The museum tries to show its visitors a flavour of the lifestyle, culture and beliefs of the people living at that time in the city, by recreating their environment using full scale replicas of a street, fountain, building walls and foundation stones, constructed according to the architecture of the time.

   Meals: Breakfast · Lunch