Pick up from hotel around 04:00-05:00 (according to the season) and drive to balloon take off place. Take the balloon flight and after the flight you will have your certificate and return to hotel around 07:00-08:00 (according to the season).

Notes

 

Meeting at the hotel reception at 10:00am 

First visit the world famous Gaziantep Mosaic Museum. This museum exhibit superb mosaic discovered at the Roman site of Belkıs-Zeugma before the Birecik Dam flooded most of the site.

Afternoon go to a local baklava producer to have baklava making class.

Plenty of free time to shop and enjoy the city on your own.

Meeting at the hotel reception at 09:00am

Drive to Sanliurfa.

We will drive to visit Gobeklitepe, a hilltop sanctuary erected on the highest point of an elongated mountain ridge some 15 km northeast of the town of Urfa. What makes Gobeklitepe unique in its class is the date it was built, which is roughly twelve thousand years ago, circa 10,500 BC.

Afternoon will also visit the holy sites at Balıklıgöl, a lake with millions of domesticated fish.

While in Urfa we will visit the cave where the prophet Abraham was born.

 We will visit nearby Harran and see the incredible beehive houses. Harran- according to the Bible-was the site where prophet Abraham spent a few years with his family before moving on to Israel, the Promised Land.

 

 

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