First Option: One day one night tour
Early departure from the hotel at 06:00 Am for Urfa flight, 07:15 - 09:05
Drive to Kahta. Visit Ataturk Dam on the way. Arrival to Kahta, travelling around the monuments, lunch by the Ataturk Dam’s lake. Drive to Mt. Nemrut, arrival to the mountain hotel and check in to the hotel. Drive and climb up the mountain, at 2,150 meters, the highest mountain in Northern Mesopotamia, sits the gigantic funerary sanctuary erected in the first century B.C. by King Antiochos I of Commagene. Visit the ruins and watch sunset.
Dinner and overnight at the mountain hotel.
Early morning; departure from the hotel for the flight back to Istanbul. 11:10 / 13:00. Transfer to the hotels.
Second option: One Night and two days trip to Nemrut and surroundings:
Early departure from the hotel at 06:00 Am for Urfa flight, 07:15 - 09:05 tk768
Drive to Kahta. Visit Ataturk Dam on the way. Arrival to Kahta, travelling around the monuments, lunch by the Ataturk Dam’s lake. Drive to Mt. Nemrut; arrival to the mountain hotel and check in to the hotel. Drive and climb up the mountain. Visiting Mt. Nemrut, at 2,150 meters the highest mountain in Northern Mesopotamia, sits the gigantic funerary sanctuary erected in the first century B.C. by King Antiochos I of Commagene and watch sunset.
Dinner and overnight at the mountain hotel.
After breakfast, long day starts with a drive to Adiyaman, on our way we will visit Eskikale (Arsameia of Nymphaios), a magnificent relief in the ruins of what scholars believe might have been the Commagene Palace depicts Heracles greeting the Commagene king, Mithridates. Opposite this site, separated by the Eski Kahta river, are the remains of Yenikale (New Castle) built by the Mamelukes. Other nearby sights include the Roman bridge at Cendere; another Commagene royal tumulus, Karakus.
Lunch in Adiyaman, travelling around Adiyaman and visiting Adiyaman Castle. Driving to Perre caves(prehistorical city) up to north about 5 km.
Drive to Gaziantep to take the evening flight back to Istanbul; 19:35 - 21:25 Transfer to the hotels.
