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A Weekend Spent at the Dawn of Civilisation

21 February 2019 Sally

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Kadiköy….. A Bohemian town

09 February 2019 Sally

The people of Kadiköy seem to have always looked at the world a little differently.  When the founders of Byzantium established their colony on the perfect but unoccupied natural harbour that is the Golden Horn,...

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Ten amazing reasons to visit Turkey with us in 2019

09 January 2019 Sally

Turkey is a hugely diverse country in every respect where around every corner and over every ridge there are superlatives. Covering at least five climatic and geographical regions, Turkey has a wide cultural diversity with...

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The Protector

06 January 2019 Sally

  Istanbul is an ancient city in a remarkable location. Straddling the Bosphorus divide between Europe and Asia, it is one of the few world cities that combines landscape and waterscape to such stunning effect. Vancouver...

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From Armenia to the Aegean, a prehistoric journey. Part 2.

02 January 2019 Sally

After leaving Hartashen standing stones, we headed of to the border crossing point at Cildir on the Turkey/ Georgia border. Armenia has been a revelation…..a true treasure trove of prehistoric sites.  Once in Turkey we...

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Lake Bafa

19 November 2018 Eastern Turkey Tours

Lake Bafa Nature Park is in Southwestern Turkey, and we have discovered its wonders on a trip of a lifetime. The lake itself used to be a gulf of the Aegean Sea, it has now...

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From Armenia to the Aegean, a prehistoric journey. Part 1

11 October 2018 Eastern Turkey Tours

Anatolia has deep roots in human history, for it is here at Göbekli Tepe in Southeast Turkey, that we see the first signs of the domestication of grains around 12,000 years ago, but we began...

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The Wonders of Tbilisi

08 October 2018 Eastern Turkey Tours

Over September and October, we’ve been on an exploration trip, looking for some new tours and short breaks to add to our offerings. We’ve travelled Armenia and Georgia, and we’ve found some amazing places, rich...

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Hot off the Press!

10 September 2018 ETT Team

We couldn't resist but to show these fabulous images from Mass at the Armenian Church of the Holy Cross. Based on Akdamar Island, Lake Van, and led by Patriarch Aram Ateşyan, seeing this kind of...

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Welcome to our new website

20 August 2018 Sally

It is with real pleasure that we launch our new and even better Alkans/Eastern Turkey Tour website.

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