ANKARA TOURS FROM ANTALYA - TOURS FROM ANTALYA to CAPITAL OF TURKEY BY PLANE (2 Days-1 Nights)
DAY 01 – FLIGHT TO ANKARA - ANKARA CITY TOUR
05:30 You will be picked up from your hotel transfer to Antalya airport to catch 07:00 am flight, arrive Ankara at 08:00 am and meet at the airport to join full day Ankara Daily
Tours. Our first stop is Ankara Archaeological Museum.Within this Ottoman building, the museum has a number of exhibits of Anatolian archeology. They start with the Paleolithic
era, and continue chronologically through the Neolithic,Early Bronze, Assyrian Trading Colonies, Hittite, Phrygian and Urartu periods.The exhibits of gold, silver, glass, marble
and bronze works date back as far as the second half of the first millennium BC. The coin collections, with examples ranging from the first minted money to modern times, represent
the museum''s rare cultural treasures.Ankara Castle; The castle, which has guarded the city for centuries, is now a symbol of Ankara and its history is as old as the city itself.
Although it is not exactly known when the castle was built, it is commonly believed to have been built by the Romans, then repaired and expanded by the Seljuk. After the lunch
break we will drive to Mausoleum of Ataturk; Republic''s founder and leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Ataturk was removed from the temporary burial site at the Ethnographic Museum
and brought here with great ceremony the same year.Within the Anitkabir complex are the Tower of Independence, the Tower of Liberty, The Road of Lions, Mudafaa-i Hukuk Tower,
the Soldier''s Tower, the Tower of Victory, the Tower of Peace, the April 23 Tower, the Misak-i Milli Tower, the Reform Tower and the Victory Relieves. The hallowed Mausoleum hall
itself is a colonnaded temple with huge bronze doors but little in the way of decoration.Overnight in Ankara.
DAY 02 – HATTUSSAS TOUR-YAZILIKAYA TOUR (Capital of the Hittites)
After breakfast meet with guide at the hotel.Visit capital of the Hittites “Hattusas”, Lions Gate, the tunnel, Kings Gate, Great; lunch in town; Afternoon visit to sanctuary of
Yazilikaya and return to Ankara.Bogazkoy - Hattusas located at inside the borders of Bogazkale county, is 208 km. from Ankara, and 82 km. away from Corum city. Hattusas, the capital
city of Hittite civilization the first to build an organized State in Anatolia, has an important place in Anatolian archeology too. Today Bogazkoy is registered as Historical National
Park ,and the main places to be seen are remained from the late period of Great Hittite Empire. On your way upon following the route of the park you will see; Big temple at Asagi
Sevir ,city ramparts and monumental gates on it (Arslanli Gate- gate with lions), Poterni and Yer Gates, Kral Gate (king gate). Temples that their numbers reach to 31 at Yukari Sevir
are composed of Nisan (April) Hill, Kingdom Palace, other buildings and Great Castle. Most important buildings of Frig Period are Bastionu and Guney (South) Castles.End of the tour
transfer to Ankara airport to take a flight at 19:00 to Antalya.Meet at the Antalya airport and back to your hotel.Overnight in Antalya.
PS:If you wish you may extend this tour ,you may add cappadocia,Mount Nemrut,Konya,Tarsus and Antioch.
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