New York (USA) → Istanbul

• Arrival in Turkey, transfer to hotel

• Dinner & overnight in Istanbul – Hotel 

Cappadocia

• Optional hot air balloon flight at sunrise

• Göreme Open-Air Museum

• Derinkuyu Underground City

• Pashaba and Zelve valleys

• Eucharist, dinner & overnight –  Hotel 

Pamukkale & Lycus Valley

• Visit Laodicea (one of the Seven Churches of Revelation)

• Hierapolis (martyrdom site of Apostle Philip)

• Travertine terraces

• Return to hotel for thermal pools

• Eucharist, dinner & overnight – Hotel
  📖 Biblical Themes: Letter to the Colossians, Revelation of St. John, Apostle Philip, Papias of Hierapolis, Melito of Sardis

• Optional morning hot air balloon flight

Kuşadası → Pergamon → Izmir

• Pergamon Acropolis & ruins (famous library)

• Smyrna (modern Izmir) with Holy Mass

• Dinner & overnight – Hotel 
  📖 Biblical Themes: Apostolic activity of St. Paul & St. John; St. Polycarp

• Visits: Chora Monastery, Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, Hippodrome, Blue Mosque

• Bosphorus cruise

• Holy Mass at the Minor Basilica of St. Anthony in Istanbul

• Dinner & overnight – Hotel 
  📖 Biblical Theme: St. Andrew the Apostle as founder of the Eastern Church; Ecumenical Councils in Constantinople (381, 553, 680/681); Council of Chalcedon (451); Dogma of the Holy Trinity & Hypostatic Union

Cappadocia → Konya

• Walk through Ihlara Valley (rock-cut monasteries)

• Stops at caravanserai and St. Helena’s Church

• Mevlana Museum & Mausoleum (Whirling Dervishes founder)

• Holy Mass at St. Paul’s Church

• Dinner & overnight –  Hotel 
  📖 Biblical Theme: Missionary journey of St. Paul & Barnabas

Pamukkale → Kuşadası

• Visit the House of Virgin Mary (Eucharist)

• Ancient city of Ephesus

• Basilica of St. John (Apostle’s tomb)

• Dinner & overnight – Hotel 
  📖 Biblical Themes: Letter to the Ephesians, Council of Ephesus (431), Dogma of Theotokos (Mother of God)

Izmir → Istanbul

• En route visits: Thyatira & Nicaea

• Grand Bazaar & Spice Bazaar shopping in Istanbul

• Dinner & overnight – Hotel 

Day 12 – Istanbul → New York

• Airport transfer & departure flight

Istanbul → Kayseri → Cappadocia

• Early morning transfer & flight to Kayseri

• Visit St. John’s Church

• Drive through Cappadocian valleys with panoramic stops

• Holy Mass at the hotel

• Dinner & overnight – Hotel 
  📖 Biblical Themes: Cappadocian Fathers (Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, Basil of Caesarea, Theodore of Amazia); Early Christian life, monasticism, cave churches, iconoclasm, Epistle to the Galatians

Konya → Pamukkale

• Visit Pisidian Antioch

• Continue to Pamukkale

• Holy Mass at the hotel

• Dinner & overnight –  Hotel 
  📖 Biblical Theme: Missionary journeys of St. Paul, Barnabas, Timothy & Mark

Kuşadası → Didim → Kuşadası

• Ancient Priene (Temple of Athena, synagogue, episcopal seat)

• Miletus (Ionian philosophers’ city)

• Didim (Temple of Apollo, oracle site)

• Holy Mass, dinner & overnight – Hotel