Private Daily Tour in Gobeklitepe and Karahantepe from Istanbul

Overview

This tour is a journey back in time to 12 thousand years on a private long day tour to Gobeklitepe and Karahantepe from Istanbul by flight. Gobeklitepe had been built during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic age which was beginning time period at the end of Ice Age. It is worth witnessing the oldest temples which were 7000 years older than Stonehenge and 6000 years older than Egyptian Pyramids. It was added to UNESCO WORLD Heritage in 2018. And 2019 was announced as the year of GOBEKLITEPE in World Heritage. Advantages of our tour; • We keep the Air-tickets included. *We visit Karahantepe too. *Also we visit Kızılkoyun caves and have enough time for Archeology museums. *All Admission fees are included. • Most of time good English-speaking tour guides are not available in the location. So, we provide tour guide from Istanbul who has enough knowledge and English to give good information for you. *We pick you up from your hotel and drop you back to your hotel again in Istanbul.

What's included

• ✓- Private luxury Mercedes Minivan with driver in Sanliurfa for day.
• ✓Admission Fees of Gobeklitepe and Archeology Museum
• ✓- Parking
• ✓- Professional fluent English-speaking guidance
• ✓- Private Istanbul Airport transfer from/to hotel of city center.
• ✓Flight tickets from / to Istanbul Airport-Şanlıurfa Airport

• ✕We have lunch in Alacart restaurant.

What you'll do

1. 1

   Our tour guide pick you up from your hotel and drive to Istanbul Airport together. We suggest the TK 2246 flight from IST to Sanliurfa which takes off at 6.25AM. Driving takes around 1 hour. So, we must pick you up latest at 4.15AM.

   ⏱ 1 hour
2. 2

   Take flight to Sanlıurfa. Flight takes around 2 hours.

   ⏱ 2 hours
3. 3

   Karahantepe is believed to date back similar time with Gobeklitepe. Karahantepe has a special structure carved into the bedrock with a human head and phallic totem. It is thought to have a ritualistic function to be adult for a human.

   ⏱ 2 hours
4. 4

   We drive directly to Gobeklitepe where history started. This place is on-going archeological excavations at Gobeklitepe. Klaus Shmit who discovered Gobeklitepe gave this name to this hill which means abdomen hill. Although this site was not so widely known. But currently being undertaken anywhere in the world. It is thought that first humans was praying and thanking to mother nature for fertility. So They had built huge stones in T-shaped with animal figures on in tons of weights. It will be so exciting to be there and smell the oldest history on the hill. After having enough information there, we leave the area and drive to Karahantepe.

   ⏱ 2 hours
5. 5

   We have a lunch break in a local kebab restaurant. Sanliurfa is the home of Turkish Kebabs and is the city of Gastronomy in the world. Cevahirhan is the best restaurant to taste the local kebabs.

Availability & pricing

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Good to know

• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation policy

All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.