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Istanbul & Cappadocia - 6 Days (Sultanahmet, Bosphorus, Goreme, Red Valley & Uchisar)

4.2(9 reviews)6 daysStart and end in the trailhead
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Six days, with a balloon over the fairy chimneys. Six days with old-city hotels, a licensed guide in Istanbul and the balloon booked on the first available morning with a spare day behind it.

Meridian Overland
Runs this trip
Group trips
Six days, with a balloon over the fairy chimneys
Group Tour
Join a fixed-date departure with other travellers

Top Highlights

  • Blue MosqueSultanahmet puts the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia and the palace within one walk of each other.
  • Hagia SophiaHagia Sophia was a cathedral for nine hundred years, a mosque for five, a museum for eighty-six, and is a mosque again since 2020.
  • Goreme Open Air MuseumAround a hundred balloons go up on a clear morning.
  • Uchisar CastleFlights are cancelled for wind more often than people expect.
  • DerinkuyuDerinkuyu goes eight levels down and held twenty thousand people with their livestock.

Itinerary

What's included

Included in the price

Accommodation
  • 5 nights accommodation as listed: hotel or lodge, twin sharing
  • Two nights in a Goreme cave hotel
Flights
  • Domestic flights Istanbul–Kayseri both ways
Transport
  • Airport pickup and drop, private vehicle
  • All internal transfers by private vehicle
Meals
  • Breakfast daily plus the meals listed on each day
Guide
  • Trip leader throughout, 1 guide per 10
Permits & fees
  • Hot air balloon flight with a licensed operator
  • All monument entries in Istanbul
  • All entry tickets and permits listed in the day-by-day

Not included

Insurance
  • Travel insurance
Optional
  • International or domestic flights to the start point
  • Personal expenses and tips
  • International flights to Istanbul
Additional Services
  • 5% GST and any applicable TCS
  • Lunches and dinners not listed on a day
  • Turkey e-visa
  • Balloon rebooking if you leave before a weather cancellation clears

Most of these can be added to your booking later — the operator confirms within a day.

Where you'll stay

All accommodations are subject to change

Sultanahmet Residency

Hotel

Day 1

Bosphorus Lodge

Lodge

Day 2

Goreme Residency

Hotel

Days 3–5

What you'll eat

5 breakfasts and 1 dinner across 6 days, at the lodges you sleep in. It opens with dinner on day 1 and closes with breakfast on day 6.

  • DinnerServed on day 1
  • BreakfastServed on days 2–6

6 meal services named in the itinerary. Vegetarian and vegan covered everywhere; Jain and gluten-free on notice at booking

Operator

Meridian Overland
4.2 (9)

Based in New Delhi

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Customer reviews

Overall rating
4.2/5
Based on 9 reviews
Review summary
Food
4.7/5
Guide
4.1/5
Itinerary
4.0/5
Transport
4.0/5
Accommodation
4.2/5
Tour operator
4.0/5
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Meera Iyer – Bengaluru2025-04-19 · Verified booking

Well paced over 6 days with enough free time to not feel herded.

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Rahul Menon – Chandigarh2025-04-19 · Verified booking

Well paced over 6 days with enough free time to not feel herded. Recommended.

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Dev Chatterjee – Hyderabad2025-04-19 · Verified booking

Everything was arranged properly — transfers, entries, all of it. Good value for what's included.

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Karan Shah – Nagpur2025-04-19 · Verified booking

Good mix of the obvious things and a few places we'd never have found. Hotels were clean and central, which saved a lot of time. Guides answered every question, including the daft ones. Would book with them again.

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James Whelan – Dublin2025-01-17 · Verified booking

Everything was arranged properly — transfers, entries, all of it. Accommodation was a notch better than the price suggested. Solid operator.

Reply from Meridian Overland

Glad you enjoyed it. Hope to see you on another trip.

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Divya Reddy – Bengaluru2025-01-17 · Verified booking

Good mix of the obvious things and a few places we'd never have found. Worth every rupee.

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Tara D'Souza – Pune2025-01-17 · Verified booking

Istanbul & Cappadocia done well. The itinerary had room to breathe. Recommended.

Reply from Meridian Overland

Thank you. We've taken the point about the transfer and are reviewing it.

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Sneha Kulkarni – Lucknow2025-01-17 · Verified booking

Too much time on the coach and not enough at the places we'd come for. The team read the group well and adjusted without making a thing of it.

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Glad you enjoyed it. Hope to see you on another trip.

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