We introduce you to the beautiful flavors of Hatay, a city located in the south of our country. Hatay, which includes many types of food from meat culture to dessert culture, makes its tourists taste great tastes. Let’s examine these beautiful flavors of Hatay together.
1 Day Istanbul / Antakya
We finish our boarding process from Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen airport to Hatay with Pegasus Airlines at 05.45 and move to Hatay. We start our trip by visiting the world’s largest mosaic museum, Antakya Mosaic Museum. While visiting the mosaics from Antiokeya, one of the most important cities of the ancient period, we see the Bone Eye Mosaic and the King Suppililuma Statue. After visiting Habib-i Neccar Mosque, one of the first martyrs of Christianity, we take a short Antakya tour by walking on Antakya Streets. After seeing the Turkish-Catholic Church, which we can visit if available, and the Historical Antakya Houses, we go to St Pierre Church, which is considered the first church in the world. After the information we will get from our guide, we come to Uzun Çarşı and we give you free time. Our guests can obtain their local products here. Our guide will help you in this regard. After the shopping break, we have a lunch break. Our lunch break, which we will give to know and test the local flavors of Antakya Cuisine, which has one of the richest cuisines of our country, was founded in Antakya, which was founded on the shore of the Asi River, which was born from the Orontes River and flowed into the sea in Saman Mountain We go to Harbiye (Daphne) and see the small shawls, which are a promenade, and then arrive at our hotel in Harbiye. Dinner and accomodation in our hotel.
Day 2 Antakya – Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport
After the open buffet breakfast we will have at the hotel, we move to Samandağı summer resort. Our path on the road, the only Armenian village in Turkey, we arrive at the village Foundations. This is the village with the highest literacy rate in Antakya. After visiting the Armenian Church of the village, we will go to Hıdırbey Village, which is famous for its history-smelling city legend, after free time in the village square, after seeing the Moses Tree, which is about 20 meters long, We arrive at the Selevkos Ancient City on the edge of the town and then we arrive at Samandağı summer resort. Then we come to Çevlik Beach, where the Asi River flows into the sea. 479 m from the sea. At the highest peak of Samandag in height M.S. Known as the center of the Leaving World Sect in the 5th century BC and visited from all over the Christian world, St. We are visiting the Simon Monastery. Meanwhile, we watch the beaches of Samandağ and Çevlik, and the Asi River, which goes in folds. After having a lunch break at Çevlik Beach, M.S. We visit the 1330-meter-long Titus-Vespasianus Tunnel, which was built by the Roman Emperor Vespasian in the 1st century, and is a human-made engineering wonder.
