Turkey Grand Tour: Ten Days, One Vehicle

Turkey is not a country you cover from a single resort. The distance from the Bosphorus to the Lycian coast is the distance from London to Milan, and the interesting parts are strung out in between. A ten-day private circuit exists for travellers who would rather see the joins than fly over them.

Group coach circuits work on a fixed clock. A private programme works on yours. You keep the same Mercedes and the same driver throughout, luggage stays in the vehicle between overnight stops, and the day starts when your party is ready rather than when a coach fills. Ten days is enough to slow down: a second night where somewhere deserves it, an unplanned stop at a roadside town, an afternoon spent doing nothing.

Turkey's classic routes draw on a handful of very different landscapes — Istanbul straddling two continents on the water; Cappadocia's carved valleys on the central plateau; the white travertine terraces at Pamukkale; the marble streets of Ephesus near the Aegean; and the Mediterranean's Lycian shoreline with its rock tombs and sunken harbours. Which of these your ten days include, in what order, and where you sleep along the way is decided with you rather than fixed on this page.

Before departure we agree the route, the overnight towns and the pace, because the honest answer to "what will we see on day six?" depends entirely on where you want the trip weighted. Travellers chasing archaeology, travellers chasing coastline and travellers travelling with children should not be sold the same ten days.

Hotel pickup and drop-off, air-conditioned Mercedes transport with a professional English, German or Russian-speaking guide, entrance fees, lunch at local restaurants, bottled water and insurance.

Contact WeCare with your dates, your party size and the two or three things you most want to see, and we will build the itinerary around them before you commit.