Highlights:

• Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
• Pera Museum

Itinerary:

The contemporary art world is changing rapidly and as the political and economic centers shift
towards the East, the production of art and the creative markets are following them. Istanbul is
currently one of the cultural hot spots of Europe and it is often seen as a gateway between
Western and Eastern culture, and the galleries in this city feature the work of some of the most exciting artists from Turkey and beyond. In this walk, as we stroll through Istanbul’s coolest neighborhoods, we will get a chance to discover the booming contemporary art scene of Istanbul with the help of a local art professional.After meeting in front of Galatasaray High School, we will start off walking on Istiklal Street and visit some of the leading art institutions of Istanbul. We will continue our way through the narrow streets of Beyoglu and find out about the hidden art galleries of Tophane and Karakoy neighborhoods. En route we visit Pera Museum offering outstanding range of diverse high-quality culture and art service. We will finish our tour at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey’s first private museum to organize modern and contemporary art exhibitions, was founded in 2004 and occupies an 8,000 square meter site on the shores of the Bosphorus.

Highlights:

• Extreme Adventure Park

Itinerary:
The perfect combination between natural beauty and adventures are melted in this unique and spectacular place. Here is where you will find the only adventure to know the
park from the sky, Xtremadventure Zip line. Live your day in a different way! Discover Xtreme adventure in a different and funny way. Adventure yourself to fly over the jungle with
amazing zip lines. Xtremadventure is a theme park designed for everybody between the ages of 9 to 70 years age over 120 cm.You will be picked up from your hotel by member of our staff and transferred to Xtremadventure Theme Park which is in Maslak District. This Theme Park is 8000 square meter inside the green with trees. Our obstacle course is located just 45 minutes away from Istanbul city center. The instructors will always assist in helping provide a safe and enjoyable tour. Even the most challenging obstacles can be made easy by pulling on one of the two safety lines or simply relaxing in your harness and waiting for the instructors to help. There are 4 stages from basic to difficult Colored green, blue, red and black includes 47 different games. It takes 2 hours from beginning to end. Then you will be transferred back to your hotel

Highlights:

• Istanbul Aquarium
• Aqua Florya Shopping Mall
• 5D Turkey Fly Ride Helicopter Tour
• Mirror Labyrinth
• Quest Rainforest

Itinerary:

This is a tour for family fun. You will be picked up at your hotel by member of our staff and transferred to Aqua Florya Shopping Mall. First you will visit the Istanbul Aquarium which is the biggest thematic aquarium of the world. Istanbul Aquarium holds a leading position among worldwide aquariums thanks to its volume, variety of fish species, and the activities on travel routes. It is a project which makes “firsts” and “most” in its field. The visitors, by following a geographical route, will travel on a route that hosts 16 themes and 1 rainforest going from the Black Sea towards the Pacific. Istanbul Aquarium displays more than 1500 species and 15000 land and sea creatures includes sharks, giant stingrays, groupers, piranhas, and octopi which has 6.800 cubic meters water volume and 64 tanks in total in 22000 square meters area. 5D 6-axle movie house offering service within Istanbul Aquarium, Guests will perceive what they watch three-dimensionally thanks to special glasses they wear, and will experience a virtual feast by wind, fog, water and touch effects that they have never seen. Following your visits, you will have free time in mall. The shopping offer is completed by leisure concepts, making Aqua Florya a destination itself, especially for families. Following free time, you will be driven back to your hotel.

Highlights:

• Vialand Theme Park & Shopping Mall

Itinerary:

This is a tour for family fun. You will be picked up from your hotel by member of our staff and transferred to Vialand Theme Park which is in Eyup district. This Theme Park is as big as 100 football stadiums and has entertainment capacity 13 thousand people. Here are some funs that you can enjoy: ROLLER COASTER. Everyone from all four corners of the world is lined up for this ride! On the Breath Taker, genuine fun with speed reaching 110 km in 3 seconds, relax and let yourself go! Feel free to scream! FAMILY COASTER the Adventurer which takes you 30 meters high at 80 km, is popular all over the world. An exciting outdoor tour awaits you. SPLASH COASTER – If you like water-filled fun the Viking, the 4th most popular train ride in the world, will be your favorite, DROP TOWER: If you want to take a good look at VIALAND from above take your place on the Justice Tower and experience the fun of going 50 meters up, 360 – Genuine adrenaline addicts turn their daring into fun on the 360. How does VIALAND look from 28 meters high and upside down? You’ll never know unless you try it! CRAZY RIVER a wild adventure that will last for 700 meters in the middle of a cascading waterfall! FATIH DARK RIDE – You say “Off to 1453 please!” and the Conqueror’s Dream takes you back to the day Istanbul was conquered. Following your visits, you will have free time in mall. The shopping offer is completed by leisure concepts. Following free time, you will be driven back to your hotel.

SHOPPING in GRAND BAZAAR TOUR

(Half Day Morning or Afternoon)

Itinerary:

The Grand Bazaar is a place where you can find practically anything you are after here, from souvenirs, nargiles, crockery, clothes, jeweler, etc. and it is the most fantastic shopping experience in the world.

Is your carpet authentic and handmade? Is your jewelry a real jewel? Is your antiquity real and
legal to be taken outside of Turkey? Is your leather purchase a genuine one? Your guide
expert on carpets, kilims, jewelry, antiquities, and leather will assist you to a store where the
best quality handmade rugs are sold for the lowest price and will take you to the most reputable leather shop, the most decent antiquity store and to a store where you can purchase your jewelry with no doubt. We will help you the skill of bargaining and guarantee that whatever you will purchase will be authentic, original, and real.

Highlights:

• Ocakbasi Meyhane
• Taksim & Istiklal Street

Itinerary:
This is a real traditional night in Istanbul. You will not see professional belly dancers nor folkloric dancers. No touristic places – but you will see much more than that!
We will take you where ‘real people’ go to dine in a ‘Turkish Way’. You will see and have a chance to meet local people having fun with their friends. We start the evening in a traditional ‘Simit Bakery’. Simit is a bread roll, which is covered with grape molasses and sesame seeds. We take our simits and visit one of the local kiraathane’- which literally means reading rooms-but-in reality is a coffee shop with lots of men with mustaches playing cards or backgammon!After having traditional Turkish tea in a traditional tea glasses, we visit another traditional place: Ocakbasi-which is a traditional self-service barbecue restaurant where you sit by the fire and grill your kebabs, along with glass of Turkish Raki of course!We continue our gourmet journey passing, seeing and sniffing by some Turkish Restaurants.Finally, we end up in a Meyhane – a traditional Tavern where you taste ‘Meze’, drink ‘Raki’ and listen to live Turkish Music performed by Gipsy Musicians. Well if you think that is it for the night, you are wrong! We will offer you a traditional ‘Iskembe Soup’, which is a ‘Tripe Soup’- the same way Turks complete their evening after being sated with Turkish Raki… And of course, no Turkish Night is ‘a complete’ without tasting the Turkish Coffee.Sounds tasty huh! And to give it quality, you will be escorted by a professional guide who will explain to you everything that you will need to know.

Special Note: This tour departs with minimum 2 participants

Highlights:

• Coffee Making Course in A Coffee Shop (with certificate)
• Coffee tasting in Oldest Coffee Houses of Istanbul
• Spice Bazaar
• Ottoman Coffee Storages
• Oldest Coffee Shop of Istanbul
• Turkish Delight Tasting (In the Oldest Historical Delight Shop)

Itinerary:

Coffee is national drink of Turkey that has a long historical tradition. Its story began in Egypt, where the Ottomans brought the first coffee beans to Istanbul in 1519. The first coffee shops were open some 30 years later in Eminonu district. There were prohibition decrees by some Ottoman Sultans. Our tour begins with “Coffee Route” – where we will have coffee tasting in this historical venue. Tiny streets, historical walkways, intriguing old bazaars, Ottoman coffee storages. On route we will visit Haci Bekir, Confectioner, specialized in traditional sweets such as Turkish Delight, hard candy. Tour finishes with a Turkish Coffee making course where participants will get certificate at the end. And a guide that will exhilarate the past and make your day valuable is the event of this day.

Highlights:

• Cooking Course
• Lunch or Dinner
• Certificate

Itinerary: 

MORNING PROGRAM

09:30 – 10:00 Pick up from the Hotel and transfer to Deraliye Restaurant located in the heart of Old City
10:30 – 12:30 Cooking Class
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

AFTERNOON PROGRAM

16:00 – 16:30 Pick up from the Hotel
16:30 – 18:30 Cooking Class
18:30 – 19:30 Dinner

Appetizers
Stuffed Vine Leaves with Sour Cherries
Sailor’s Roll – Rolled pastry with cheese and peas served with honey

Main Courses
Kirde Kebabi, Diced beef and vegetables on flat bread croutons with yoghurt

Dessert
Traditional Turkish dessert

Highlights:

• Cercle D’Orient
• British Consulate
• French Consulate
• St Antony Church
• Galatasaray High School
• Tunnel
• Galata Tower (from outside),
• Kamondo Steps

Itinerary:

We will pick you up from your hotel in-between 12:00 and 13:00 and depart for our half day Istiklal Street & Galata – Genoese Walk Tour.

Istiklal Street is the liveliest and the most colorful street of Istanbul. The street has been pedestrianized since 1988 and for over 150 years has been the center of the nightlife of the city. Hundreds of bars and clubs shake this downtown area in the evenings. During daylight, Istiklal is home to many historical embassy buildings, fancy hotels, apartment buildings, streets, theatres, restaurants, shops. Our tour begins in the heart of Istanbul – the Taksim Square where you meet your guide. You will stroll on the exiting little side streets of Istiklal Street, sit in one of the intriguing coffee shops and talk with your guide, see the amazing Embassy buildings, visit Armenian and Romaic churches, ancient districts, impressive walkways and much more.In the Byzantine period, the hillside – where Galata is today – was covered with orchards and was named Sykai (The Fig Orchard), or Peran en Sykais (The Fig Field on the Other Side), referring to the “other side” of the Golden Horn. It was in the Byzantine period that the area began to be called Galata and a fortress was built by Emperor Theodosius II. Galata was a Genoese colony from the 6^th to 15^th centuries. This walk is around the famous Galata Tower and covers the area, where we see many churches, synagogues, hospitals, bank buildings, ancient walls, schools. Stories, myths, and legends are a bonus from your guide.

Highlights:

• Galata Tower (from outside)
• Kamondo Steps

Itinerary:

We will pick you up from your hotel in-between 12:00 and 13:00 and depart for our half day Galata – Genoese Walk Tour.

In the Byzantine period, the hillside – where Galata is today – was covered with orchards and was named Sykai (The Fig Orchard), or Peran en Sykais (The Fig Field on the Other Side), referring to the “other side” of the Golden Horn. It was in the Byzantine period that the area began to be called Galata and a fortress was built by Emperor Theodosius II. Galata was a Genoese colony from the 6th to 15th centuries. This walk is around the famous Galata Tower and covers the area, where we see many churches, synagogues, hospitals, bank buildings, ancient walls, schools. Stories, myths, and legends are a bonus from your guide