7-Day Istanbul Highlights Tour with Bosphorus Cruise Option

• Arrive in Istanbul and meet your tour guide. Transfer to your hotel to rest after your journey. You will also have the opportunity to explore the area around the hotel on your own.

(Optional $50 per person)

• Leave your hotel at about 19:30 and head to the port to board a first-class boat for entertainment shows accompanied by fascinating Bosphorus views. While having dinner on board, admire the night views of Maiden's Tower, the shores and manor houses on both sides of the Bosphorus, Bosphorus Bridge, and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, which connect Asia and Europe like a necklace.

• Enjoy traditional Turkish dances and graceful belly dancers.

• At the end of the program, return to the port and transfer back to your hotel.

• In the morning, leave your hotel after breakfast and travel through the heart of the Old City, where the Byzantine and Ottoman empires were established. The first place you will see is the Hippodrome, where sporting and political activities took place during the Byzantine era.

• After seeing the Serpentine Column and the German Fountain, continue to the Theodosius Obelisk and the Blue Mosque, built for Sultan Ahmet and known for its blue Iznik ceramics and six minarets.

• After that, head to Topkapı Palace for an interior visit.

• After finishing this tour, continue to the Bosphorus cruise in the afternoon, have lunch along the Bosphorus on the way toward the Black Sea, and then return to the hotel.

• After breakfast, visit the Tombs of the Sultans and Aya Sophia Museum, then head to the Grand Bazaar, which has more than 4,000 shops and is considered the biggest covered bazaar in history.

• Return to the hotel after the tour.

• After breakfast at the hotel, begin with a visit to Dolmabahçe Palace with your Istanbul tour guide. Built between 1843 and 1856 by order of 31 sultans from the Ottoman era, it contains 365 rooms and 22 halls. It later served as the presidential palace during the Atatürk era.

• After that, head to Çamlıca Hill to admire the view of Istanbul from the top.

• Return to the European side of Istanbul and enjoy free time in Ortaköy to taste Turkish coffee and smoke shisha beside the sea before heading back to the hotel.

• Enjoy a free day at leisure.

• Enjoy a free day at leisure.

• Meet your tour guide in the hotel lobby for your transfer back to Istanbul Airport and take your flight to your next destination.