Turkey 2026

My job offers an incredible benefit after 5 years of service, a paid 2 week vacation or 4 weeks of time. This unique benefit gave me an opporunity to take a trip we've been eyeing for a long time. Turkey is an incredible country with diverse history, geography and culture.

We trid to cover as much as we could in two weeks, visiting Istanbul first, then Cappadocia and Ihlara, the road up to Mount Nemrut, Şanlıurfa and Göbekli Tepe, and the Aegean coast from Kuşadası and Ephesus down through Myra to Çıralı.

Map of Turkey showing the September 2026 route: flights from Istanbul to Cappadocia, Adıyaman, Şanlıurfa, İzmir, Antalya and Tbilisi drawn as dashed arcs, and drives from İzmir through Kuşadası, Ephesus, Ölüdeniz, Patara, Kaş, Myra and Çıralı to Antalya drawn along the roads, with inset maps of Cappadocia and the Mount Nemrut and Göbekli Tepe tour.