Tour Overview
Itinerary
(Breakfast included)
After breakfast, we pick up you from the hotel and start your city tour. Yeni Han, is an excellent example of how antiquity can perfectly fit into modernity. Once the building was used as a caravanserai, where travelers and traders could spend the night, eat and relax. Today, here is the cultural and shopping center of the city, where citizens and guests of Manisa love to spend time. Sultan Mosque was built in 1522 and is part of a complex that originally consisted of medrese (seminary), bimarhane (mental hospital), mektep (primary school) and hamam. The hamam is still functioning, the bimarhane houses the Medical History Museum and the mektep houses a cafe. Archaeological Museum, artworks from traditional Sardes, Magnesia and other provincial towns from local and district are displayed here. In the museum’s collection, there is a wealthy culture of the districts that begins from the bronze age until the Byzantine Period’s end. Muradiye Mosque, which is the work of the Great Master Mimar Sinan, is one of the most magnificent buildings of Manisa. Mimar Sinan drew the project of the mosque, but died when the mosque was finished and could not see the work. Niobe the area known as Crying Rock was so called, according to mythology, because Niobe was crying for her 14 children killed by Leto. Manisa Fortress consists of an internal and external fortress. The construction used brick masonry, which is most characteristic of the buildings of the Byzantine period. The total length of the fortress and walls is about 4.5 kilometers, its complex also includes 13 towers. The remaining ruins are only two of the seven gates of the fortress. Sureyya Nature Park is located in the greenery with picnic and barbecue areas, wedding and organization garden, breakfast garden, and children playgrounds. After tour we drop you back to hotel. Overnight in Manisa.
(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 Manisa cooking tour, you will taste various flavors of Manisa and prepare lunch with chief together cities most famous menu Manisa Kebap 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 Manisa.
(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 Spil Mountain and National Park is the point of choice for those who do nature tours in summer with cool air. It is an ideal stopping point with many endemic plant species and clean oxygen. Spil Mountain, one of the most important places of Manisa's natural beauties. After the tour drop back to your hotel. Overnight in Manisa.
(Breakfast included)
After breakfast, we take you from the hotel and depart to Kybele Relief this huge roughly sculpture like is about 8m in height and 4.5m in width, situated in Sipylus Mountain. The poorly damaged out relief emerges to be a placed figure, carved into a huge niche. Sardes Ancient City, home to the Lydian civilization, was founded in the Bronze Age. It has a tremendous historical importance in the history as the place where the first money was printed. When we look at the city even today, we can see that it is a product of a rich civilization. Lydia, an advanced civilization in the field of trade and livestock, stands out with its artistic structures. Include Byzantine shops, a synagogue, palestra (an open expanse where athletes trained and where the gymnasium and baths once stood), Roman villa, Temple of Artemis and 4th-century church. Kursunlu Waterfall and Present Travertine formation is an artificial waterfall which was constructed to control and regulate the flow of Kursunlu stream. To the north of this waterfall, travertine deposits are being formed due to the precipitation of calcium bicarbonate in the water having its sources on either sides of the Kursunlu valley. Kula Peribacalari is a strange natural site with a mystifying feature. Kula and its atmosphere have a volcanic geographical formation. On the higher part of the Gediz River, there is natural incidence of fairy chimneys produced by the result of heat transformation, wind, rain, and corrosion. Kula houses constitute a rich example of Ottoman architecture and decorative arts with architectural arrangements in terms of planning, structure and aesthetic arrangement with the use of techniques such as wood, plaster and pencil works. After the tour drop back to your hotel. Overnight in Manisa.
(Breakfast included)
After breakfast, you will have free time in Manisa. Today is the last day of your tour and you are returning home. Depend on your flight departure time we will transfer you to Izmir 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
5 nights hotel in Manisa - DovsOtel
Professional English - speaking tour guides
Guiding Method
Fully guided
5 open buffet breakfasts
1 local lunch
Arrival transfer from Izmir airport to hotel in Manisa Transportation in a fully air - conditioned, non - smoking coach Return transfer to Izmir airport
All entrance fees mentioned in the itinerary
Guided Manisa City Tour
Guided Cooking Lesson & Shopping Tour
Guided Turkish Bath & Spil Mountain and National Park Tour
Guided Tour Around Manisa
Excluded
International and domestic flights
Insurance: All types
Tipping: Tips for guides and drivers
Any others expenses which are not mentioned at the included section
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