Tours
Fethiye 12 Islands Boat Trip
The coastline off Fethiye is scattered with small islands, each with its own character — shallow turquoise bays, pine-covered slopes, Byzantine ruins half-swallowed by the sea. This boat trip connects the best of them into a single day on the water.
You’ll depart from Fethiye Harbor mid-morning aboard a traditional wooden gulet. The route threads through the Gulf of Fethiye, stopping at islands where the water is so clear you can see the bottom at five meters. Yassicalar’s shallow bays are warm enough to wade in. Tersane Island has the remains of a Byzantine-era shipyard where boats were built a thousand years before yours. Domuz Island offers a quiet bay away from other boats. And Kizil Island — Red Island — delivers a late-afternoon stop where volcanic red rock meets the sea.
Lunch is served on board. The swimming stops are long enough to actually swim. And the boat returns to Fethiye by 17:00, leaving you the evening for the town’s waterfront restaurants.
Gallipoli Day Trip from Istanbul
You’ll leave Istanbul early and drive west to the Gallipoli Peninsula, where the 1915 campaign left marks that are still visible in the terrain — trench lines, cemetery rows facing the Aegean, and a narrow beach where thousands of soldiers landed under fire. This is not a surface-level visit. Your guide walks you through the full campaign chronology, from the April landings to the August offensive to the December evacuation.
The day covers ANZAC Cove, Lone Pine, Chunuk Bair, Brighton Beach, The Nek, Johnston’s Jolly, and the Kabatepe Museum. At each stop, your guide provides the military context — who fought where, what they were trying to take, and why the geography made it nearly impossible. The trenches at Johnston’s Jolly are close enough to the opposing lines that you can see both sides from a single position.
Lunch is included on the peninsula. You’ll be back in Istanbul by evening.
Troy Day Trip from Istanbul
Troy is one of those places that sits at the exact intersection of myth and archaeology. Homer wrote about it. Heinrich Schliemann dug it up. And now you get to walk through it — nine distinct layers of settlement stacked on top of each other, spanning more than four millennia of human occupation.
Your day starts with an early morning pickup from your Istanbul hotel and a scenic drive westward toward the Dardanelles and the town of Canakkale. The route takes you through the rolling farmland of Thrace and across the strait that separates Europe from Asia. By late morning, you’re standing at the entrance to one of the most significant archaeological sites in the Western world.
Your guide walks you through the excavated city layer by layer — from the earliest Bronze Age walls (Troy I, around 3000 BC) through the settlement most scholars associate with Homer’s Iliad (Troy VIIa) to the Roman rebuilding of the city under Augustus. You’ll see the defensive towers, the sacrificial altars, the residential quarters, and the massive replica of the Trojan Horse that has become the site’s most recognizable landmark. After a lunch break, you begin the return drive to Istanbul, arriving back at your hotel in the evening.
Bursa Day Trip from Istanbul
Bursa rarely appears on first-time Turkey itineraries, which is precisely why it rewards the visit. This was the Ottoman Empire’s first capital — the city where the dynasty took shape before Constantinople fell. The architecture here predates Istanbul‘s great mosques by a century, and the food culture runs deep enough that one dish alone (Iskender kebab, invented here) draws Turks from across the country.
Your day begins with a pickup from your Istanbul hotel and a scenic drive to the ferry terminal. The crossing over the Sea of Marmara takes about an hour — open water, coastal views, and a clean break from Istanbul‘s density. On the other side, your guide takes you into the city’s Ottoman core: the Green Mosque with its turquoise Iznik tiles, the Green Tomb where Sultan Mehmed I rests, and the Grand Mosque (Ulu Cami), where 20 domes and masterful Arabic calligraphy fill a space that has served as Bursa‘s spiritual center since 1399.
After lunch — Iskender kebab, naturally, at a local restaurant where they take the dish seriously — you’ll walk through Koza Han, the 15th-century silk market that once anchored the eastern end of the Silk Road. If weather permits, the day finishes with a cable car ride up Uludag Mountain, where the panoramic views across the Bursa plain and the distant Marmara coast put the entire region in perspective. Then it’s back to the ferry and your Istanbul hotel.
9-Day Istanbul, Fethiye Blue Cruise & Antalya Tour
You’ll spend your first days in Istanbul on your own terms — choosing between the Ottoman grandeur of Sultanahmet and the waterfront energy of the Bosphorus. Then you’ll fly south, board a traditional Turkish gulet in Fethiye, and spend three nights sailing a coastline that most visitors only see from a beach towel. Butterfly Valley, the Blue Lagoon at Oludeniz, the sunken ruins of Kekova — this is the Mediterranean at its most unfiltered.
After three mornings waking up on the water, you’ll transfer overland through the Olympos corridor to Antalya, where a free day lets you explore the old harbor town, hit the beach, or simply do nothing at all. The final leg brings you back to Istanbul for your departure.
This itinerary balances structure with open time. Guided days in Istanbul, three days of coastal sailing with meals included on the gulet, and enough free days to make the trip feel like yours — not someone else’s schedule.
Istanbul City & Bosphorus Tour
Istanbul is a city that reveals itself in layers, and this full-day tour is designed to move through them. You start at the Spice Bazaar, where saffron, Turkish delight, and dried figs have been traded since the 1660s. From there, you cross the Galata Bridge into Karaköy — a former Genoese trading port turned creative district — before boarding a private Bosphorus cruise past Ottoman waterfront mansions, Rumeli Fortress, and the suspension bridges that link Europe to Asia.
The afternoon climbs uphill to Galata Tower, where a panoramic view from the top puts everything you’ve seen into geographic context — the Golden Horn, the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the minarets of the Old City skyline. From the tower, you walk Istiklal Avenue — Istanbul’s grand pedestrian boulevard lined with 19th-century consulates, historic patisseries, and art nouveau facades — ending at Taksim Square, the symbolic heart of modern Istanbul.
This is the tour for travelers who want to see Istanbul from the water up. No mosques, no museums, no ancient ruins — just the strait, the streets, and the city as it lives today. Your guide meets you at your hotel lobby and shapes the route around the day. If you want to extend it, an optional Dolmabahçe Palace visit adds the opulent final chapter of the Ottoman Empire to the itinerary.