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3-Day Trip To Explore The Rich History Of Turkey
  • Tour Category

    Private Tour

  • Tour Types

    Nature, History, Sightseeing

  • Duration

    3 Days

  • Activity Level

    Medium

  • Language

    English, Turkish

Description

Uncover all of Turkey's wonderful secrets of its rich history. Göbeklitepe,  the oldest ritual archaeological site in the world, black rose farm, museums (archaeology, mosaic), holy fish lake, old bazaars, Atatürk Dam, antique cities, Septimus Severus Bridge, boat rides, and witness the world's most beautiful sunrise and sunset at 2200 meters above sea level with the most influential gods of the ancient world at Mount Nemrut Yazidi religion

Highlights
  • Visit the Holy Balikli River
  • Enjoy a boat tour on Firat
  • Go to Turkey's Largest Hydroelectric Plant 
  • Watch beautiful sunset and sunrise 
  • Explore the Ancient city of Armenia
  • Day - 1 Sanlıurfa expand_more
    • Welcome you at the airport, and we start our trip to Göbeklitepe. It is the oldest ritual archaeological site in the world, which causes questioning all the known things belonging to the Neolithic period.

    • Move on to the Harran where we will visit the beekeepers whose names have not changed for 5000 years until today, the land of the moon god sin, the land of the last Babylonian king Nabukednezar, the homeland of the Saabis, the philosophy of the Harran school that guided the Islamic world and the roots of which go back 4000 years.

    • Visit the largest archaeological museum in Turkey after Harran. You'll find yourself on a 15,000-year-old trip, as the museum's artifacts are sorted chronologically.

    • Go to the Haleplibahçe Mosaic Museum, which is very close to the Archaeological Museum. Haleplibahçe Garden mosaics are described as the most valuable mosaic in the world due to their mosaic technique, art and 4 mm 2 size made from the original stones of the Euphrates River and similar feature museum include masterpieces ..in the Amazon warrior queens (Hippolyte, Melanipe, Antiope, Panthesilaia), Akhileus, Ktisis (goddess of the foundation of buildings and cities, and personification of generosity and donations), Orpheus, Jesus, and more.

    • Settle in our hotel.

    • Go to the local row night where you will see and listen to the songs and dances of the people of the ancient lands of Mesopotamia; our first day will be over.

  • Day - 2 Head to Balikli Lake and Halfeti expand_more
    • Start our 2nd day with the holy Balıklı Lake; 3 monophysites, the ancestor and prophet of religion, which is the sacred place where the prophet Hz Ibrahim was born and was thrown into the fire. Our tour with a trip that includes markets and bazaars, where a historical, colourful and cultural life, whose origins date back to a very old time, takes place.

    • Set out for the natural and historical wonder Halfeti, which is identified with the sacred Euphrates River and the black rose.

    • Embark on our 1 hour boat tour on the Firat which will last about an hour.

    • Visit the Rumkale which is surrounded by water on 3 sides and the village with sunken minarets, which is the subject of films and advertisements.

    • Visit the black rose farm that grows only in Halfet in the world and buy black rose cologne.

    • Move to a massive structure, Turkey's largest hydroelectric plant and filtered in a narrow valley of Euphrates Atatürk Dam to see the river.

  • Day - 3 A Trek to Nemrut Mountain expand_more
    • Start our 3rd day by climbing Mount Nemrut to greet the sun (sunrise) with the gods and goddess Zeus, Apollo, Heracles, and Commagene (Tyche-Bakht) at an altitude of 2200 meters, leaving the hotel 3 or 4 hours in advance according to the sunrise time. 

    • Go to the ancient city of Arsemia in our car after watching the magnificent sunrise. 

    • Next up is the Septimus Severus Bridge, a magnificent Roman architecture. 

    • It's time for the royal queen and princesses to be buried in the sacred mausoleum. 

    • Learn about the ancient city of Pere. 

What's Included
  • Airport pick-up

  • Airport drop-off

  • Private boat tour

  • Museum tickets




What's Excluded
  • Meals
  • Flying tickets
  • Accomodation
Know before you go
  • Let's witness the sunrise with the gods on the mountain of Nemrut.

  • Göbeklitepe, Harran, museums (archaeology, mosaic), holy fish lake, old bazaars, Halfeti (black rose-boat tour), Atatürk dam, sunrise on Nemrut mountain, Arsemia antique city, Septimus Severus bridge, Karakus Tumulus, and Perre antique city.

  • Arsemia, ancient city, Hierothesion and capital of Commagene. The ancient city was built within the summer capital founded by Antiochus I, the magnificent king of the Commagene kingdom, by his ancestor Arsames. Antiochus built on his father's holy mausoleum and in Turkey, which has the largest Greek inscriptions. The holy river ForI Mithrades priest and the ancient city which is an amazing natural landscape. It is built on the sacred river, the Kahta (Nymph) river, has an incredible view of nature. It is built on a high hill against enemy attack.

  • Pirin (Perin) ancient city: This ancient necropolis and its surrounding area was an important settlement center during the Commagene period. Together, it became a developed city during the Roman period. Most of the remains are carved into the rocks, in the form of burial sites with other behaviours. Sarcophagi were placed inside the rooms and their entrances were decorated with reliefs. The ancient city, which was located on the road route of Malatya in ancient times, is mentioned about the beauty of its water, which is still used today. The ancient city also sent a representative to the Iznik (Nikea) council in the 4th century AD.

  • Karakuştümülüs (Hierothesion) sacred monument built by the Commagene king Mithridates II for the royal Commagene queen and her princesses Mithrades II built this tumulus for his mother lsias, his sisters Laodike and Antiochis and his nephew Aka; these tombs and pillars. As can be understood from the inscriptions here, King Mithridates decorated this monumental tomb with columns consisting of three groups. The column with a handshake scene for Laodike in the northwest; a column with a bull sculpture for lsias in the northeast; for Antiochis and his daughter Aka, he erected the south column with an eagle on it. With the Romans dominating the Commagene, the building stones here were taken and used in the construction of the Cendere Bridge (Severus Bridge). It is widely believed that the burial chamber inside the tumulus may have been entered by the Romans.

  • Septimius Severus (Cendere) bridge is the masterpiece of Roman architecture, built by the XVI Flavia Firm legion by Septimus Severus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire with African (Libya) origin. Emperor Severus had 4 columns erected at the entrance and exit of the bridge in the name of himself, his wife Julia Domna (mater castrorum - 'mother of the[army] camps') and his children Caracalla and geta. The bridge is built on the Cendere (Chabines) river.

  • Nemrut Mountain and giant statues of Gods and goddess; Would you like to watch the world's most beautiful sunrise and sunset at 2200 meters above sea level with the most influential gods of the ancient world? Commagene the sacred ceremony and sacred mausoleum tumulus (hierothesion) performed by the great king Antiochus for himself and his father I Mithrades. The sanctuary where the statues of giant gods sitting on their thrones accompany you, formed by small limestones stacked about 50 meters high, which began to be built in the 1st century BC. King Antiochus realized his dream by combining the gods of both east and west on the same mountain at the summit of the Nemrut in the dream of uniting the east and the west, which Alexander the Great could not very much want. From the king Antiochos to all people, ‘The Great KingAntiochus, the God, the Righteous One, the Manifest (Deity), the Friend of the Romans and the Greeks, the Son of King Mithradates Callinicus and of Laodice the Brother-loving Goddess, the Daughter of King Antiochus Epiphanes, the Mother-loving, the Victorious, has recorded for all time, on consecrated pedestals with inviolable letters the deeds of his clemency. Therefore, as you see, I have set up these divine images of Zeus - Oromasdes and of Apollo - Mithras - Helios - Hermes and of Art Agnes - Heracles - Ares, and also of my all nourishing homelandCommagene; and from one and the same quarry, throned likewise among the deities who hear our prayers, I have consecrated the features of my own form, and have caused the ancient honour of great deities to become the coeval of a new T'yche.’

Meeting Point

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Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
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USD 2208 / group