Black Sea Green Coast Emerald Experience Tour from Istanbul

Day 1 – Morning flight to TRABZON. Transfer to hotel and lunch. Visit to 14th-century SUMELA MONASTERY, keeping the remains of magnificent frescoes, built at an altitude of 1300 Meters in the National Park of the Virgin Mary, and SAINT SOPHIE, well preserved 13th-century Byzantine church, MOSQUE OF GÜLBAHAR HATUN. Return back to hotel, dinner and overnight.

Day 2 – Departure after breakfast by the black-seaside highway towards Russia, viewing Sürmene, Of, Çaykara, towns all enjoying a sub-tropical climate, green settings and nice traditional style houses, Rize, a typical Black Sea city covered with tea plantations, Çayeli, Pazar, Ardeşen, Arhavi, Hopa and the Russian border- gate Sarp. Lunch on the way and a visit to a tea factory. Drive to Çamlıhemşin and Ayder plateau, if time permits, before returning to the hotel. Dinner and overnight.

Day 3 – Start after breakfast for Uzungöl, a lovely alpine lake and lunch at a trout farm. Stop at Ganita for a short tea break and watch the fascinating sunset. Return to hotel, dinner and overnight.

Day 4 – Free morning to explore the old marketplace and typical architecture within the still extant fortifications of Trabzon. Transfer to the airport for the return flight.

Tour Code: PLN023