PRE/POST CONFERENCE TOURS
TWO DAY TOUR TO CAPPADOCIA • EUR 250.-
Pre: November 8 – 10, 2005; Post: November 13 – 15, 2005
(Full board per person in double room, includes airfare)

Day 1. Transfer to the airport for morning flight to Kayseri by THY. Drive to Cappadocia and transfer to the hotel. After lunch, visit the Kaymaklý underground city, a huge refuge carved by early Christians, which served as a hideout from persecutors. Continue to Üçhisar with a unique view of lunar landscape. Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Cappadocia.

Day 2. After breakfast, visit the Göreme Valley, famous with its churches hewn out of rock and decorated with colourful frescoes. The next stop is Zelve and the caves. After lunch in the vicinity continue to Ortahisar fantastic panoramic view of “fairy chimney” formations. The touring will end with visit to Ürgüp and Avanos.

Drive to Kayseri to take the evening flight to Istanbul. Transfer to the hotel.

FULL DAY TOUR TO EPHESUS • EUR 240.-
Post: November 13, 2005
(Min. 15 participants - includes airfare)

Morning transfer to the airport for flight to Izmir. Drive to Ephesus, to see its impressive Theater, Marble Street, Celsus Library, Temple of Hadrian and many more monuments.. After lunch near the ruins, drive up the Mt.Nightingale to see the“ House of Virgin Mary” where she spent her last days. Also visit Basilica of St.John, the Archaeological Museum and Isa Bey Mosque in Seldjuk before returning to Izmir airport for flight to Istanbul.

ISTANBUL SIGHTSEEING TOURS
HALF DAY TOUR OF THE CITY • EUR 28.-
Daily 09:30 – 12:30

Visit the great Süleymaniye Mosque, Sinan’s masterpiece, continue to the Byzantine Hippodrome, the Blue Mosque with its fabled interior blue Iznik tiles and six minarets and the 6th century Byzantine Basilica of St. Sophia, now a museum.

HALF DAY
TOPKAPI PALACE & BAZAAR TOUR • EUR 28.-
November 10 & November 11, 2005 14:00 – 18:00

Visit the Topkapi Palace, once the Ottoman sultans’ residence with its fabulous collections of jewels, porcelain, clothing and many other treasures. Then continue to the colorful Grand Covered Bazaar with over 4,000 tiny shops selling leather wears, copperware, carpets, antiques, souvenirs and jewelry.

EVENING BOSPHORUS CRUISE
WITH DINNER ON BOARD • EUR 83.-
November 11, 2005
min. 25 participants

Sail up the Bosphorus, the waterway between Europe and Asia, as far as the Black Sea, passing under the Bosphorus Bridges and viewing Ottoman summer palaces, waterside mansions and modern villas which line the European and Asian shores. Also pass by 15th century Rumeli Hisari fortress built by Mehmet The Conqueror. Dinner will be served on board while enjoying the scenery.