Flight to Izmir - Smyrna, Pergamon Tour

Overnight in Kusadasi

(Lunch included)

• In the morning You will be welcomed by your tour guide at the exit of Airport in İzmir.

• After comfortable  drive you will arrive to visit St. Polycarp’s Church in Izmir.

• Then, we continue to Pergamum to visit the Acropolis where“the compromising church”; Revelation 2:12-16 describes the city as “where Satan’s seat is”, a reference to the altar of Zeus. Pergamum was a great center of scholarship and learning. Anthony took the library from here with its 200,000 rolls and transferred it to Alexandria as a present for Cleopatra. After the Acropolis we will visit the Asclepion, the ancient hospital.

• Overnight in Kusadasi.

Ephesus Tour

Overnight in Kusadasi

(Breakfast & Lunch included)

• We believe that this day will be the highlight of the tour. Today is a full day tour to the ancient city of Ephesus where the St. Paul lived and preached for three years and to where he subsequently sent his letter to the Ephesians. Ephesus (“the loveless church”, the most important of the seven churches), House of Virgin Mary where she is said to have spent her final years and Basilica of St. John. We see the Baths of Scholastica, the Library of Celsus, the Temple of Hadrian, the theater, the Double Church (The Church of Mary) where the third ecumenical council was convened in A. D. 431. Then we visit Artemis Temple, which was once one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

• Overnight in Kusadasi.

Laodicea - Hierapolis - Pamukkale Tour

Overnight in Pamukkale

(Breakfast & Lunch included)

• After breakfast, drive to Laodicea, the church chastised for being lukewarm, “You are neither cold nor hot” (Rev. 3: 15), and for being too comfortable incorporating pagan and Christian beliefs.

• Later visiting the ancient city of Hierapolis, Roman ancient city where St. Philip was martyred during the persecutions  by Domitian. Hierapolis is located on the top of a hill where you can see the famous natural wonder white cotton fortress.

• Overnight in Pamukkale

Philadelphia-Thyatira-Sardes Tour

Flight to Istanbul

(Breakfast-Lunch included)

• After driving we will visit“the faithful church” of Philadelphia and drive to  Thyatira, “the adulterous church” that, as mentioned in the Revelations, tolerated the false prophets, Jezebel (Rev. 1: 11; 2: 18-29).

• After we go to Sardis where we can see Roman gymnasium complex, the Byzantine shops and the latrines, Roman Avenue, the reconstructed synagogue, Temple of Artemis. Right by the temple there is a church of Sardis.

• Drive to Izmir Airport for flight to Istanbul.

• End of our service.