Month long trip to Turkey May 2016 - where to go | Turkey - Lonely Planet Forum

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Mon, 11 May 2015 10:12:35 +0000

So I have decided to spend a month on Turkey next year, am thinking May 2016 I am a solo 39 year old female traveller. Originally I was just going to visit Gallipoli and then visit the Western Front but after more research I decided to spend the whole month in Turkey,

What I would like to see is the following
Ephesus
Pamukkle
Fethyie-Kas area to see the coast line,
Then travel to Cappadocia and spend about 4 days seeing the area
Three day trip Mt Nemrut
Huttusa
Ankara
5 days in Istanbul
3 days in Gallipoli

Originally I was going to do a intrepid trip Istanbul-Selcuke-Pamukkle-Kayakoy-Kas-Konya-Goreme-Ankara-Istanbul, leave it at Ankara and double back and see Hattusa, Cappadocia, Mt Nemrut and then fly to Istanbul and do the rest. Just to make it easier and have the same people to talk to for the first bit of the trip. Before heading off on my own.

I am going to take 5-6 weeks leave from work and when you take out getting to Turkey from Australia I think I will have 4-5 weeks in turkey

From solo travellers point of view how easy is it to travel around, I have read that the buses are pretty good way to travel and I will probably take some flights, I am not a fan of night time or really really long bus trips.

Anyone got any more suggestions on what is worth seeing at that time of the year. Would hotels need to be pre booked before I leave Australia or can I play it a bit more by ear and only make bookings a few days in advance.

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Mon, 11 May 2015 10:48:42 +0000

All of that is fairly easy to do by bus and plane. The Nemrut trip from Cappadocia involves quite a long bus ride, also Gallipoli is 5 hours by bus from İstanbul.
And getting from Cappadocia to Hattuşa/Boğazkale can be a bit of hassle.
Best to fly İstanbul-İzmir and Antalya-Nevşehir and maybe take the train back to İstanbul from Ankara.

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Fri, 15 May 2015 11:24:42 +0000

Hi RobyneS ;

as your travel itinerary let me give you some advices about bus trip ;

İf you go first İstanbul easy to go Gallipoli after gallipoli Aprox. after 8 hours bus trip you will be in Ephesus . After Ephesus it is easy to find bus to Pamukkale . if you complete all this program by bus you shold take night bus trip.

If we come to B plan ;

I do recommend you take yourself first to İstanbul Then it is really easy to find plane to Cappadocia / Göreme . from Göreme we have Mt. Nemrut tours usually 3 days 2 Nights after mt. Nemrut you will be back to Göreme . From here you can take 1 night bus to pamukkale just 9 hours . Pamukkale - Ephesus 3 Hours by daily bus . After ephesus you can go directly to Gallipoli via İzmir. so i recommend you to put the Gallipoli as a last stop ;)

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Thu, 28 May 2015 01:00:20 +0000

thanks for the info, need to do some more planning

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Sun, 29 May 2016 01:00:27 +0000

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