4 Days Balikesir City & Cooking Tour
Highlights
- Kuvayi Milliye (Nationalist Forces) Museum-Balikesir Clock Tower-Balikesir National Photograph Museum-Zagnos Pasa Mosque-Cooking Lessons
Overview
Balikesir is a great city for holidays, Cultural and Historical tours. You can also explore footprints of first world war in this city. If you would like to see something different in your life and if you like cooking or want to learn how to cook, we offer you very special itinerary to learn very good Turkish cuisines with smiley and friendly Turkish people. In this tour package you will not only have a chance to taste local foods but also you will learn how to cook them.
Route
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Meet at the Balikesir Airport and transfer to your hotel. You will be given your room key and the rest of the day is yours to explore Balikesir. Overnight in Balikesir.
(Breakfast included )
Pick up from your hotel and depart to centre of Balikesir. First stop will be Kuvayi Milliye (Nationalist Forces) Museum, building used as headquarters in the years of National Struggle. First floor you can see the decisions of the congress, personal belongings of these heroes, photographs and wax sculptures of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his wife Latife Hanım are on display. On the second floor of the museum, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts found in Balıkesir province are located. Then next stop will be Clock Tower which is built in 1901. After guide give you informations keep going to Photography Museum, It’s the first Photography Museum in Turkey. Then you will have free time in city center after free time you will visit Zagnos Pasa Mosque also another name; Balikesir Grand Mosque. After the tour transfer back to your hotel in Balikesir
(Breakfast and lunch included)
After breakfast, we take our guests from the hotel and depart to a local restaurant for your professional cooking lesson. You participate in your first Turkish cooking lesson: Although Balikesir is a district rich in natural beauty, it is also famous for its cuisine. Dugun(wedding) Soup, Tirit which made with chickhen. Mantı (ravioli) and Another important food is the Hosmerim dessert, also known as Hosmerim, which is made widely in the province of Balıkesir. After lunch you will depart to city center for free time and shopping before returning to your hotel. After the tour drop back to your hotel. Overnight Balikesir.
(Breakfast included)
After breakfast the day is yours till your departure transfer to Balikesir Airport. We will transfer you to Airport and you will flight back home. We hope your tour was a memorable one and we look forward to seeing you in the future on another TravelShop Booking Tour. Thank you for choosing TravelShop Booking.
Trip includes
Included
3 nights hotel at Balikesir-Willmont Hotel
PS: If This hotel list not available at the time of your booking then we will arrange smilar other hotel for your group. If you prefer a Different category hotel, there might be an additional cost
Professional English - speaking tour guides
Guiding Method Fully guided
English
3 Breakfasts
1 Lunch
Arrival transfer from Balikesir Airport to Hotel
Transportation in a fully air-conditioned, non - smoking coach
Return transfer from Hotel to Balikesir Airport
Guided Balikesir City Tour
Guided Cooking Lesson & Shopping Tour
All entrance fees mentioned in the itinerary
Hotel Room Taxes, Tours & Transfer Taxes
Excluded
International and Domestic Flights
Insurance: All types
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