Isparta Lavender Fields & Sagalassos, Salda Lake Tour

(2 Nights and 3 Days)

Tour Programme

Burdur – Aglasun – Sagalassos – Egirdir – Yazılı Canyon – Lavender Harvest – Salda Lake – Gaziantep

Moving Day => Thursday

We come together with you, esteemed guests in fornt of the HRT TOURS Agency at 18:00 on Thursday and at 18:15 start to move from Gaziantep to Burdur with food and beverage services in bus.

1st Day Friday

Destinations

Burdur – Aglasun

After night travel, we have breakfast. And, we start to move for Burdur trip. Following a short walk among the city streets, we see archaelogical sculptures and other remains  from Sagalassos and Kibyra excavation showed in Burdur Archaelogical Museum which is one of the wonder of museology. Then, we move to Aglasun. We accommodate our hotel. We have a pleasant dinner of Aglasun cuisine, having tastes continued from Romans in hotel restaurant. And take place at rooms to rest.

2nd Day, Saturday

Destinations

Sagalassos – Egirdir – Yazılı Canyon

After breakfast, we move to Sagalassos Ancient City trip. Covered by France traveller Paul Lucas in 1706, here’s archealogical works are performed by an team from Belgium Leuven University since 1990. We explore by walking this ancient cites that is one of the most exciting  archealogical place of Turkey in recent years. Here are the highest altituded ancient theathre, Marcellum (food bazaar), Parliment Building, Antonian Fountain, Agora, Odeon, Roman Bath, flowing Hellenistic fountan from old times, Neon Library, Pottery Street and other structures. After exploring this ancient city, we continue to move to Egirdir Lake. Egirdir is considered center of Lakes Region and known with endless apple gardens that we can see while closing there. You can see turquoise lae and mountain sceneries during walking on Yeşil Island. We taste the lake’s famous crayfish and basses at lunch at a local restaurant in shore of the lakes. Next, we go on for Yazılı Canyon. Here is a little known national park one of the wonders of nature. Yazılı Canyon takes its name from a Epiktetos’s poem named ‘’Poem on Free Human’’ which scripted on rocks by carving. After nature walk to watch wonderful landscapes, we come back to hotel. We have dinner consisting of appetizers and barbecues at the side of hotel’s pool.

3rd Day, Sunday

Destinations

Lavender Harvest – Salda Lake – Gaziantep

After the breakfast at early of the morning, we move to Kuyucak village to see lavender harvest. (This harvest can watched in Burdur, too , depend on weather and blossome of lavender. After  wonderful smells and colours among gardens of lavender, and watching lavender harvest and producing of lavender oil at early of morning, we move to Salda Lake. After 1 hour travel, we arrive Salda Lake. Salda is a light salty karstic lake among the Lakes Region surrounded by hills covered by trees, rocky area and small alluvial plains. With about 184 mt. deepness, the third deepest lake of the Turke and the second place of World having specialty of Martian. Due to same magnesium contained white rocks also existing at Martian, here is named Matrian Surfaced Lake. Here’s clean and clear waters and turquoise colour let east and west southern sourec resemble  ocean islands. By exploring here with diverse time-breaks, we eat picnic meals prepared for us with watching this extraordinary scenery. Eventually, we start to come back Gaziantep.