Iconic GAP Tour | 4 Nights Accommodation, Departing from Istanbul and Ankara
Tour Detail
As you discover Mesopotamia’s most special historic cities and unique culture, an unforgettable travel experience awaits you with its history, flavors, and culture.
Adana - Gaziantep - Adıyaman - Diyarbakır - Mardin - Şanlıurfa 4 Round Trip | BusTour Program
Night Bus Journey
19:00 In front of Doğtaş Furniture, opposite İncirli Ömür Plaza
19:30 In front of Mado, Mecidiyeköy
20:00 In front of Kadıköy Marriage Registry Office
20:10 In front of Kozyatağı Hilton Hotel
20:30 Kartal Bridge (Ankara direction)
20:45 In front of Gebze Center
21:15 Bus Stops at the Entrance of İzmit Intercity Bus Terminal
21:45 Sakarya Bus Terminal
01:00 Opposite Ankara Armada Mall (The Next Day)
After picking up our guests from the boarding points you have selected, we begin our nighttime journey accompanied by the information our guide provides inside the vehicle.
Adana–Taşköprü–Almacı Market–Coppersmiths’ Bazaar–Gaziantep–Zeugma Museum
After having breakfast along the way in the morning ( optional extra ) Sabancı Central Mosque, which is the symbol of Adana, and a photo stop at Taşköprü, which will greet us in all its splendor over the Seyhan River with its Roman-era architecture, we begin our tour. We arrive in Gaziantep, which received the title of “Gazi” in 1927 for its glorious resistance during the enemy occupation, in the afternoon. A break awaits us in Gaziantep, one of the first cities that comes to mind with its status as a Gastronomy City, where we will encounter a wide variety of flavors, from katmer and yuvalama soup to baklava and pistachios, as well as many more delicacies than we can list. After our meal break, we visit the Zeugma Mosaic Museum, where mosaics excavated from Zeugma are exhibited, Gaziantep Castle, the Coppersmiths’ Bazaar, the Baklava Shops, Elmacı Market, the Yemeni Makers’ Bazaar, and the Mother-of-Pearl Inlay Makers’ Bazaar, and sip our coffee at Tahmis Coffeehouse. During our free time, you can shop in accordance with our guide’s recommendations. At the end of the tour, we reach our hotel and check in. Dinner at the hotel.
Breakfast : Not included in the tour price. (taken at an extra restaurant upon request.)
Lunch: Not included in the tour price. (taken at an extra restaurant upon request.)
Dinner: Included in the tour price and served at the hotel.
Accommodation: Gaziantep Hotels (Half Board)
Mount Nemrut - Cendere Bridge - Diyarbakır - Grand Mosque
After breakfast at the hotel in the morning, we reach Adıyaman following the Yavuzeli - Besni route. After panoramically viewing the city center, we board our minibuses waiting for us in Kahta and stop at the Karakuş Tumulus, built by King Antiochus for his wife, daughter and grandson, and named Karakuş by the locals due to the presence of an eagle statue. Afterwards, following a photo break at the eighteen-century-old Cendere Bridge, one of the most magnificent bridges of the Roman period, we ascend to Mount Nemrut at an altitude of 2150 m. (Optional extra) Here, after seeing the East and West Terraces, Zeus Oromastes, Apollo Mithras, Heracles Artagnes, Commagene, and the guardian Lion and Eagle statues and crowning these magnificent historical structures with photographs, we board our minibuses and reach our bus. We take a photo break at the Nissibi Bridge at the Kahta-Siverek junction of the Atatürk Dam Reservoir, which is located in the Southeastern Anatolia region and is among the largest dams in the world. Following our break, we arrive in Diyarbakır, one of the region’s most important cities since the period of the Artuqids. During our Diyarbakır tour, we visit the Ulu Mosque and the Diyarbakır-born Poet Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı Museum House, whom we all know from the poem 'age thirty-five, halfway through the road' (*May be viewed from the outside due to restoration). We conclude our tour here after seeing this building, which is a fine example of the region’s civil architecture in terms of its construction period and was designed with separate areas of use for each season, and proceed to our hotel.
Breakfast : Included in the tour price and served at the hotel.
Lunch: Not included in the tour price. (Served at an optional extra restaurant.)
Dinner: Included in the tour price and served at the hotel.
Accommodation: Adıyaman or Diyarbakır Hotels (Half Board)
Diyarbakır - Ten-Eyed Bridge - Hasankeyf - Midyat - Guest House
After breakfast at the hotel in the morning, we complete our panoramic tour of Diyarbakır with a short break at Ten-Eyed Bridge after photographing Mardin Gate, Goat Bastion and the Tigris Basin at the city walls, the second-longest surviving city walls in the world, and then reach Batman via the Bismil route. (We take our Malabadi Bridge tour with guests who wish to join. (optional extra) After lunch, we arrive at Hasankeyf, one of the first settlements of the ancient era. In this excursion, where we will share the sorrow of Hasankeyf, which was brought to life for thousands of years by the Tigris River on whose banks it was founded, but which was submerged under the waters of the Tigris River by the Ilısu Dam, we see the still-majestic Hasankeyf Castle, the hidden water tunnel, the minaret of the El Rızık Mosque and the caves. After the free time we will have, we board our vehicle and reach Midyat, one of the most important settlements of the Assyrian community. Here, we will have the opportunity to do your filigree shopping, featuring the finest examples of the art of filigree, crafted by Assyrian masters as a kind of inheritance passed down from father to son. After the free time in Midyat, where the mansion familiar to all of us from television in the recent past through the Sıla TV series and the finest examples of Midyat houses are located, we depart and go to our hotel, where we check in. Dinner and overnight stay at our hotel.
Breakfast : Included in the tour price and served at the hotel.
Lunch: Not included in the tour price. (served at a restaurant as an optional extra.)
Dinner: Included in the tour price and served at the hotel.
Accommodation: Mardin or Midyat Hotels (Half Board)
Mardin–Deyrulzafaran Monastery–Kasımiye Madrasa–Göbekli Tepe–Harran–Şanlıurfa
After having breakfast at the hotel in the morning, we arrive in Mardin, which the local people call the ‘’Stone City of Anatolia, the Capital of Civilization’’ and which will welcome us with its fascinating architecture. After visiting the Deyrulzafaran Monastery, once considered the center of all Assyrians in the world for a long period, and the Kasimiye Madrasah, where we will enjoy views of the Mesopotamian Plain, we enter the city as if wanting to get lost in the streets of Mardin. Accompanied by our guide, you will feel as though you are in another world as we take a walking tour where we can see many more masterpieces of stonework, such as the Streets of Mardin, Kırklar Church, Abbaras, the Old PTT Building, the Grand Mosque, and Şehidiye Mosque. We take a tour of the Ancient City of Dara with our guests who wish to join. (Optional extra) After the free time given in the bazaar and having lunch, we reach Göbeklitepe via Kızıltepe-Viranşehir, the first known temple in human history, built approximately twelve thousand years ago. We listen to the story of Göbeklitepe, only a very small part of which has been excavated so far and which is considered the pilgrimage center of the Neolithic Age, from our guide. After our visit to Göbeklitepe, we arrive in Şanlıurfa, the city of prophets. Afterwards, we go to Harran, whose name means “the place where roads intersect” and which is connected to the City of Prophets, Urfa. In Harran, which has a 5,000-year history and was also home to the first Islamic university, the places we will see include Harran University (Grand Mosque), the Castle, the Caravanserai, and the Conical Harran Houses. Following our tour here, we arrive in Şanlıurfa and check into our hotel. Overnight at our hotel. Afterwards, guests who wish may attend the local entertainment program, the Urfa sıra night.
Important Note: Dinner is not included in our hotel accommodation on this day of our tour. Guests who wish may attend the sıra night program with dinner. (Optional extra)
Breakfast : Included in the tour price and served at the hotel.
Lunch: Not included in the tour price. (Available at an optional extra restaurant.)
Dinner: Not included in the tour price. (Available as an optional extra at the Sıra Night.)
Accommodation: Şanlıurfa Hotels (Bed and Breakfast)
Şanlıurfa–Balıklı Lake–Halil-ur-Rahman Mosque–Shrine of Prophet Abraham–Rızvaniye Mosque–Ayn Zeliha Lake–Halfeti
After breakfast at the hotel in the morning, we continue our Şanlıurfa program. Halil-ür Rahman and Rızvaniye Mosques, Balıklı Lake, Ayn-el Zeliha Lake, and the مقام of Prophet Abraham will be the places we see and visit. Our excursion in Şanlıurfa includes free time during which we can witness the daily life of the city; during this time, we recommend that you visit the Bedesten and Gümrükhan. At the designated time, after approximately a one-hour journey by bus, we arrive at Halfeti, where the black rose grows in this region of our country due to its climate and weather conditions, and which was submerged beneath the waters of the Birecik Dam built on the Euphrates River at the beginning of the 2000s. With our guests who wish to participate (optional extra), we board our boat and see Rum Kale and the villages submerged beneath the waters during our tour on the Reservoir Lake. At the end of our boat tour, we complete our tour with a photo break in Halfeti and begin our return journey. With the necessary breaks during our journey, we arrive in Istanbul in the morning and bid farewell to our valued guests until we meet again on another tour.
Breakfast : Included in the tour price and served at the hotel.
Lunch: Not included in the tour price. (Taken at an optional extra restaurant.)
Dinner: Not included in the tour price. (Taken at a facility along the return route.)
Accommodation: It is the return day; there is no accommodation.
General Information
Child Discount and Circular Rules
The child discount is valid for the 7–12 age range.
The tour circular is valid as of the date it was published, 19.01.2026. Circulars published on later dates for the same tour invalidate the previous circular.
Mandatory additional services are included in the tour price.
Important Information About Tours with Flights
- For tours with flights, all procedures related to flights are subject to the provisions of the airline agreement.
- Cancellation insurance does not cover air transportation.
- A tiered pricing system is applied; the advertised prices are starting prices from the lowest class.
- Economy class flights are used in tour programs with flights.
- Flight tickets are issued as a round trip together. If the outbound flight is not used, the return flight also becomes invalid in accordance with the airlines’ “sequence of use” rule. Therefore, participation in only the return flight is not possible.
Museum – Archaeological Site – National Park Entrance Fees
All museum, archaeological site and national park entrance fees are the responsibility of our guests. Our guests may obtain a Müzekart from Müzekart sales points before or during the tour in order to benefit from advantages at museums and archaeological sites where the Müzekart is valid.
Package Price Includes
Our package tour prices include hotel accommodation, transportation and the excursions specified in the program.
Rest Stops
Breaks are taken at rest facilities along the route. Due to crowding, renovations or similar force majeure reasons, rest stops may be changed, provided that they are equivalent in terms of service quality and location.
Extra Tours and Program Flow
Night tours and extra excursions included in the tour program are organized depending on the number of participants and the availability of the assigned staff. Extra tours conducted along the route may take place even if not all guests participate. Guests who do not wish to join the extra tour will be directed by our guide to rest areas before the city entrances or to city centers. In this case, guests who agree to wait at the rest area will be deemed to have participated in the tour.
Due to weather conditions, road conditions or similar reasons, the guide may make changes to the sequence of the program (visiting points within the day or between days) if deemed necessary.
Go-Turkey cannot be held responsible for points that cannot be visited despite being included in the program due to force majeure (weather conditions, road conditions, crowding at visiting points, etc.) or because guests fail to comply with the timings provided by the guide.
Health Notification
Our guests are required to carry with them reports and information concerning any health problems they may experience during the tour, pregnancy status or medications they use regularly.
Accommodation Information
The hotel names specified in the program are the primary accommodation facilities. Hotels may be changed depending on availability. The information about the hotel where guests will stay will be shared with our guests, upon request, no later than 48 hours before the tour departure. If the hotel is changed due to crowding or force majeure reasons, provided that the standards remain the same, our guests will be informed by Go-Turkey representatives.
Important Notes
- On tours with flights, flight delays may occur due to heavy traffic.
- Night tours are extra and are organized depending on participation.
Vehicles Used
Tour vehicles are planned as follows according to the number of participants:
Bus (28–46 people):
Mercedes Travego / Tourismo, Neoplan Cityliner / Tourliner, Mitsubishi Safir
(ABS, ASR, air conditioning, monitor, refrigerator, kitchen unit, reading lamps, announcement system, CD/DVD)
Midibus (17–27 people):
Isuzu Turkuaz
(ABS, ASR, air conditioning, monitor, refrigerator, announcement system)
Minibus (up to 16 people):
VW Volt, VW Volt EL, Mercedes Sprinter, Mercedes Sprinter EL
(Specially designed reclining seats, ABS, ASR, air conditioning, refrigerator, announcement system)
Recommendations
- Clothing and footwear suitable for the geographical features and weather conditions of the tour region should be preferred.
- It is recommended that you bring the necessary charging equipment for taking photographs and videos.
- Regularly used medications should not be forgotten; allergic, chronic or hereditary conditions should be reported to the guide.
- Personal care products, a backpack and personal belongings that will make the journey more enjoyable should be kept with you.
- For programs that include boat tours and swimming breaks, it is recommended that you bring swimwear, a towel, sunscreen and similar marine equipment.
The tour program and explanations above have been specially prepared by Go-Turkey. They may not be copied, reproduced or published without permission. The program has been prepared in accordance with the Consumer Protection Law No. 6502 and should be evaluated as a whole.
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