General

Tour Style : Private Tour
Duration : 2 Days – 1 Nights
Highlights : Gordion, Hattusas

DAY 1: Gordion
Morning 08:00am Meet with our tour guide and transfer and continue way to Polatli (Yassihoyuk) Gordion. Touring in Gordion: After meet in Ankara, Departure for Gordion and visit Gordion, which was the capital of ancient Phrygia. Visit the ruins of the city including the city walls, the Royal Palace, the Tumulus Tomb of King Midas and the Archaeological Museum. Gordion), the former capital of the Phyrgians, is located near Polatli (on the Izmir highway), about 93 kilometers away from Ankara. It was named after King Gordios, founder and ruler the Phyrgians.

Excavations made on the upper part of the city revealed a high passage and houses belonging to royal family. Tumulus, the most famous of which belonged to King Midas; with its 53-meter height and 300-meter width,it is the second biggest tomb of its type in the world. Tour the excavations of the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Phrygia, where Alexander the Great cut the proverbial knot and thus opened the way to Asia. The opportunity for your guide to tell the legend of King Midas with the golden touch comes as he leads you to the ruler’s great earth tumulus. Today the Gordion Museum displays artifacts in chronological order, with every period represented by characteristic examples: pots, pans, tools made from steel and textile looms from the Antique Bronze Age, Pre-Phrygian Period which ended with King Midas. Additionally, Greek ceramics from BC 6 – AD 4, materials from the Hellenistic Era and Roman times, seals and coins are also exhibited. (Lunch included)
Overnight in Ankara.

DAY 2: Ankara and Hattusas
Anitkabir (Mausoleum of Ataturk – founder and first president of the Turkish Republic) with the National World War I Museum & War of Independence Museum.
Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, a historic caravanserai holding artifacts from up to 7500 years, including the most extensive and valuable collection of Hittite artifacts in the world.
Lunch in Bogazkoy
Hattusas, the capital of Hittites with the Grand Temple, Lion’s Gate, Tunnel, and King’s Gate.
Yazilikaya, Antique City was located as two open-air temples and between natural rocks which is 3 km to Hattusa and outside of 7 km city wall.
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