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Bingol is located on a high plateau in Eastern Turkey and promises its guests a remarkable journey with its natural beauties as well as its rich history. It is encompassed by mountains and a substantial number of icy mass lakes, consequently the name, Turkish for a thousand lakes. Bingol is suitably located amidst wonderful highlands and is surrounded by icy glaciers. In recent times, Bingol has become a popular tourist attraction magnetizing a large number of nature loving and sport loving individuals each year.
Highlights
- Buban Chimneys-Cicektepe Village Cave-Kigi Castle-Kalkanli Village Cave-Cooking Lesson-Shopping Tour-Turkish Bath-King’s Daughter Castle Tour
Itinerary
(Breakfast included)
After breakfast, we pick up you from the hotel and start your city tour. Buban Chimneys, the village of Oguldere is a town known mostly for the short fairy chimneys that top a number of the hills surrounding it. The brilliant green valley from the new town to the old is well worth exploring as it runs between fairy chimney-topped hills and up to the ruins of the old town where there are a couple cave homes, natural caves, as well as pasture land full of livestock. The entire area is quite picturesque and holds some great hidden gems. Cicektepe Village Cave, Bingol is quite rich in terms of naturally formed caves. Cicektepe Village Cave is one of the rare areas that bears the marks of ancient settlements. The cave consists of two rooms and a gallery, and its walls bear the traces of the past. Kigi Castle located in the southeastern part of the city center, the castle is a well-preserved historical monument. The site is an attraction for tourists with its wall embellishments that resemble the medieval architecture and is waiting for you with its structure founded in the middle of steep rocks. It proximity to the river, which is known as “Fairy Water” and the longest river in the region, gives an opportunity to visit the river as well. Kalkanli Village Cave is famous for its engraved adornments and the structure is formed by being carved into natural rocks. The cave has a natural and historical beauty with its adornments.After tour we drop you back to hotel. Overnight in Bingol.
(Breakfast and lunch included)
After breakfast, we take you from the hotel and depart to a local restaurant for your professional cooking lesson. You participate in your first Turkish cooking lesson: During our Bingol cooking tour, you will taste various flavors of Bingol and prepare lunch with chief together cities most famous menu Gomme and a dessert which you will enjoy and giving you an experience to learn great recipes and techniques to add to your own collection. After lunch you will depart to city center for free time and shopping before return to your hotel. After the tour drop back to your hotel. Overnight in Bingol.
(Breakfast included)
After breakfast, we take you from the hotel and depart to the Traditional Turkish bath is a place where physical and spiritual cleaning takes place and hundreds of years old. Natural lighting and izonic colored tiles create a relaxing atmosphere. When entering to Turkish bath, you leave all the hastiness of daily life outside, you exchange your clothes for a waistcloth and adorn the traditional clogs. Inside temperature reach up to 50 degrees celcius under the central dome of the building. This heat and humidity opens the pores of body and extracts the fatty anoils of the body in preperation for your scrub down and a massage by the attendant. After a gentle soap massage, you leave the bath place with towels and pass to resting room. Here, tea is offered to you. You leave the Turkish Bath renewed, beautiful and refreshed. After Bath we drive to King’s Daughter Castle is located in Genc district of Bingol. It is one of the most beautiful districts of Bingol that lay on Murat Valley with its fascinating landscape. The exact date of construction of the Castle is unclear, although it is thought to have been built by the Persian King Dara for his beloved daughter. The original name of the castle is Darahini, which means Dara’s Fountain. After the tour drop back to your hotel. Overnight in Bingol.
(Breakfast included)
After breakfast, you will have free time in Bingol. Today is the last day of your tour and you are returning home. Depend on your flight departure time we will transfer you to Bingol Airport. We hope your tour is an unforgettable tour and we would like to meet again on one of our tours in the future. Thank you for choosing a good trip with Travelshop Booking.
Trip includes
Included
4 nights hotel in Bingol Grand Berti Hotel
PS: If This hotel list not available at the time of your booking then we will arrange smilar other hotel for your group.
Professional English - speaking tour guides
Guiding Method
Fully guided
4 breakfasts
1 lunch
Arrival transfer from Bingol airport to hotel in Bingol
Transportation in a fully air - conditioned, non - smoking coach
Return transfer to Bingol airport
Guided West Bingol Tour
Guided Cooking Lesson & Shopping Tour
Guided Turkish Bath & King’s Daughter Castle Tour
All entrance fees mentioned in the itinerary
Hotel room taxes, tours & transfer taxes
Excluded
International and domestic flights
Insurance: All types
City Tax
Turkey entry visa
Tipping: Tips for guides and drivers
Items of a personal nature such as alcoholic drinks, cold drinks, laundry
Any others expenses which are not mentioned at the included section
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