Your personal car, driver and guide will be waiting this morning to show you the historic monuments and highlights of this captivating city which they know so well. Visit the Blue Mosque, see the ancient site of the Hippodrome and tour the magnificent St. Sophia, built more than one thousand years ago. Your last stop of the morning will be the celebrated Grand Bazaar, a lively medieval marketplace with thousands of shops and vendors selling everything from textiles, leather goods, arts, and crafts to spices, nuts and sweets.
After a delightful lunch of traditional Turkish cuisine, your private sightseeing tour continues at the resplendent Topkapi Palace. Explore its beautiful grounds and tour the fabled Treasury, home to glittering Crown Jewels and other fabled treasures of the Sultans. Meals B, L