SPECIAL SERVICES
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Seven Churches of The Revelation
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Footsteps of St. Paul
Excursions, tours, Blue Voyages and other special services can enhance any holiday, allowing visitors to experience some of Turkey's natural and man-made treasures.
Excursions
Each year Airtour organises hundreds of
excursions for thousands of visitors, showing them some of the most remarkable
sights of Turkey - indeed, of the world. Our guides are experts both in the
regions of the excursion and the sights on the itinerary, and they have a
high degree of competence in a language relevant to their tour groups. Our
carefully selected drivers and modern, well-maintained buses maximise our
guests comfort and safety.
Discover Anatolia Tours
Airtour's experience of running tours is
unrivalled. In 1975, we became one of the first companies to introduce
guaranteed departure tours in the Aegean region.The idea caught on both with
our individual clients and our associate companies.Now we offer an expanded
range of Discover Anatolia Tours throughout the year with west Anatolia tours
from Istanbul, Antalya or Marmaris; central Anatolia tours from Antalya; and
Marmara and Black Sea region tours from Istanbul. We can organise exclusive
individual or group tours with itineraries catering for particular interests.
A Discover Anatolia tour is an ideal way to make the most of a short break We employ more than 50 academically trained, qualified guides who introduce and explain the contemporary, historical and natural riches of your chosen region. Our modern fleet of buses ensures you travel in style, while our carefully selected hotels will pamper you in the evenings.
Discover West Anatolia Tour
Our Discover West Anatolia Tour starts in Istanbul,
the only city in the world built on two continents, Europe and Asia, and separated
by the incomparable Bosphorus. As the former capital of two of the world's greatest
empires, the Byzantine and the Ottoman, Istanbul has many unique buildings and
monuments - the awe-inspiring Haghia Sophia (or Church of Divine Wisdom) dating
from the sixth century, and the massive seventeenth century Blue Mosque, to name
but two. The exotic Grand Bazaar is everything an oriental bazaar should be, with
its colourful shops spilling out their wares onto a maze of narrow alleys, will tempt
your eye and your wallet.
From Istanbul , the tour moves on to the most famous city of ancient times, Troy, the city of Helen, whose fate is immortalised in Homer's lliad. The next stop is the ancient acropolis of Pergamon, one of the most outstanding ancient cities in Anatolia. It is famous for its crowning Altar of Zeus and, while the superstructure has been removed to Berlin, the still spectacular foundation stones of this enormous structure remain. Pergamon's theatre, clinging to the side of the acropolis at a precipitous angle, is one of the highlights of a visit. Yet, all this is but a preparation for a visit to Ephesus.
Ephesus, like Pergamon, is one of the cities of the Seven Churches of the Revelations. Today it is the most substantial of Turkey's Greco-Roman sites and its size and sophisticated design will astounding you. Nearby is the Basilica of St. John, where John the Evangelist is buried, the site of the Temple of Artemis (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, sadly destroyed), and Meryemana, the reputed final home of the Virgin Mary.
Natural wonders follow man-made ones with a visit to the aptly named Pamukkale (Cotton Castte) a cascade of travertines built up over millennia from the deposits of hot, healing springs.
The tour ends in Antalya, at the very centre of the beautiful Turkish Riviera.
