Trekking Tour in the Footsteps of the Hittites
- UNESCO World Heritage Hittite Capital Hattusa
- Yazılıkaya Open-Air Temple
- Alacahöyük & Hattusa Archaeological Site
- Hittite Dam, one of the world's first dams
- The most important cities and monuments of the Hittites
- Boğazkale Museum
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Custom tour
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If you would like to arrange a private tour, please contact us. We are here to listen to your requests and prepare an unforgettable experience for you.
Tour days
| TOUR DEPARTURE TIMES & LOCATIONS | |
| 03:20 | Incirli in front of Alfemo |
| 03:40 | Mecidiyeköy in front of Torun Center |
| 04:00 | Kadıköy in front of Marriage Registry Office |
| 04:15 | D-100 (E-5) Kozyatağı Carrefour Stop |
| Our vehicles depart from the specified stops at the times indicated above. | |
We set off from Istanbul on Friday night, traveling towards Boğazkale via Bolu-Gerede-Ankara-Kırıkkale. Breakfast packs will be distributed along the way.
Yazılıkaya & Hattuşa
Our first stop on the tour is Yazılıkaya. After learning in detail about the reliefs and the Hittite Gods and Goddesses at the Hittite Cult Center, we drive to UNESCO World Heritage Hattuşa. We visit Yerkapı, the Sphinx Gate, Lion Gate, King's Gate, Nişantepe, Hieroglyph Chambers 1 and 2, Büyük Kale, and the Great Temple. After your guide's explanations, you'll have a truly close insight into the Hittites.
Boğazkale
After we complete our visit to Hattuşa, we continue to the Boğazkale Museum. This museum was fully renovated and reopened on May 18, 2011, and is now one of our most modern museums. Here you will witness the chronological history of the Boğazkale region accompanied by artifacts. After the museum visit, you'll be quite hungry, so we head to our hotel.
We'll have lunch at the hotel. After lunch, we'll visit the Boğazkale Carpet and Kilim Cooperative. Carpets and kilims woven by local women are exhibited and sold here. It's impossible not to be amazed by the carpets and kilims featuring various motifs unique to Anatolia and the Hittites. After this short visit, it's time for our main walk.
Our walk will start at Boğazkale Lake and the Japanese Gardens. With Hattuşa on our left, we'll walk towards Boğazkale, following the tractor path through the oaks, which will connect us to the stream. We'll follow the stream, descend a small rocky area locals call "Hoşu," and see a tiny waterfall. Following the stream passing through the gorge at Hattuşa, we'll arrive back at our hotel. After the roughly 8 km walk, we'll reach our hotel. Dinner will be at the hotel.
After an early breakfast, we pack our belongings into the vehicle and leave the hotel. Following a journey of about 30 minutes, we arrive in Alacahöyük.
Alacahöyük & Hittite Dam
We begin our tour of the Alacahöyük Museum and archaeological site. After exploring here for about an hour, we see the remains of the historic Hittite Dam, believed to have been built around 1300 BC. After leaving the dam ruins, it’s time for trekking.
We start our walk in Alacahöyük once again, along a dirt road among oak trees. The route reaches the turnoff for Kalehisar Hill after about 1.5 hours. Depending on the group’s condition, we can either hike up to the fortress or continue walking. We recommend climbing; the view is magnificent, but the descent is very challenging.
Afterwards, we see the remains of Behramşah Külliyesi and walk to Mahmudiye Village, where we meet our vehicle.
Around 13:30, we have our lunch. After our roughly one-hour lunch break, don’t forget to buy some of the many varieties of roasted chickpeas sold here. After two rest stops on the road, depending on weather and road conditions, we arrive in Istanbul around 21:30–22:00 and bid farewell, hoping to welcome you on another BUKLA trip.
► End of the Tour:
22:00 Istanbul (May vary depending on traffic conditions.)
Other information
- Professional guiding service
- 1 night accommodation
- 1 breakfast (at the hotel)
- 1 dinner (at the hotel)
- All tours
- All transfers
- Refreshments
- Mandatory TURSAB insurance
- Lunches and meals on the road
- Museum and archaeological site entrance fees
- All drinks, alcoholic beverages, and other extras at meals and hotels
- All services not specified as included
- VAT
Airline: Air transport is not included in our prices. All responsibility regarding tickets and flights lies with the participant. Please purchase tickets that are refundable and can be changed. For information about the tour’s transportation, please refer to the Departure and Return transportation tabs in the tour program.
Land Transportation: For our domestic and international tours, we use minibuses that are best suited for terrain conditions. Our vehicles are air-conditioned and regularly maintained. If there are fewer participants, cars may be used. In some cases, our guides may drive the vehicles.
Extra Transfers: If you cannot find a suitable flight and have to arrive at a different time from the group, extra transfer charges will apply. These transfers may be provided with our contracted vehicles or taxis. Any transfer outside the tour program is considered extra.
Note: Children aged 0-2 who travel free of charge do not have their own seats in transfer vehicles. They travel on their parent’s lap (if the tour is full and no seat is available).
Day 1: Başkent Hotel or equivalent - Boğazkale/Çorum
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- Single Accommodation
Participants who do not wish to pay the single supplement and want to share a room with a same-gender roommate will be required to pay the supplement if no suitable roommate is found.
If participants choose to pay the single supplement and stay alone in a room, single accommodation will be arranged depending on facility availability and reservation order. However, this may vary from one facility to another. That is, you might be able to stay alone on one night, but have to be paired up on another night; sometimes this cannot be foreseen in advance. In such cases, a refund will be issued for the nights you are unable to stay alone.

- Insurance: Bukla Tur, as required by law, provides mandatory insurance against non-performance of services. Other accident and travel insurances can be arranged upon request for a fee.
- 0-2 Years Free Infant: Infants up to 3 years old are free of charge. However, please check whether our tours are suitable for infants. No beds are provided for infants.
- 3-8 Years Child Discount: Only one child discount is applied per family. The discounted child must stay in the same room as the parent. A bed is provided.
- Tour Cancellation Terms: You can find all information regarding tour cancellation terms in the Package Tour Agreement. Anyone registering for the tour is considered to have accepted the Package Tour Agreement.
- Flight Tickets: If our tours are canceled due to not reaching the minimum required number of participants, all risks and responsibilities related to tickets purchased by the consumer or on behalf of the consumer by our company belong to the consumer. The concerned consumer(s) have no right of objection or compensation. Therefore, we recommend purchasing refundable tickets. If the consumer agrees, our company may transfer the tour registration to another tour on the same dates, provided there is available quota and the purchased flight tickets can be used for the new tour.
- Requests Outside the Package Tour: Some guests may believe promises have been made to them outside the scope of the tour due to misunderstandings. Occasionally, these requests may arise even if they are not possible to offer. We do not go beyond the package program except for written commitments.
- Tour Combination & Tour Change: If our tours do not reach the sufficient number of participants, they may be combined with another guaranteed tour if you accept. You are responsible for reviewing the new tour and deciding whether it is suitable for you. In this case, you are deemed to have accepted the following conditions.
- The program and conditions of the new tour you join will apply.
- The places visited on the new tour may differ; the difficulty level may be easier or more challenging.
- The type and service of accommodation may differ.
- Transportation options and flight times may differ,
- The tour program may start in reverse order depending on hotel availability. The sequence of days may change.,
- Conditions: Due to Bukla’s dynamic tours, leaders have the right to make arrangements and changes to the tour program that do not disrupt the general flow and package content for reasons such as weather conditions, injury, illness, equipment failure, permits, or group structure. Participants may exercise their right of withdrawal in case of a significant change to the tour program. In such cases, Tursab Kütahya Schedule rules apply.
- Law No. 1618: Tour services cannot be provided by any person or institution other than travel agencies that are members of Tursab. In particular, do not trust pages opened on social media, and do not be complicit in a crime. Associations, schools, companies, individuals, guides, clubs, and foundations cannot organize tours. It is a criminal offense in violation of the law.
BUKLA-MANIA TOURISM TRAVEL AGENCY PACKAGE TOUR CONTRACT
1- PARTIES AND SUBJECT: This contract has been concluded in accordance with Law No. 6502 and the Package Tour Contract Regulation, between Bukla Tourism and Trade Ltd. Company (hereinafter referred to as Bukla Tur), located at Esentepe Mah, Büyükdere Cad 175/7 Şişli, İstanbul, and the consumer who purchases the service. The contract becomes valid upon reservation request via distant means such as phone, email, message, or electronically.
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2- BUKLA TUR'S RESPONSIBILITIES: The subject of this contract covers the rights and obligations of the parties regarding the sale and performance of the service, whose characteristics and sales price are specified below, sold electronically by Bukla Tur to the consumer, and in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 4077 on the Protection of Consumers - Regulation on the Principles and Procedures for the Implementation of Distance Contracts. Bukla Tur is responsible to the consumer if the contracted service is defective. According to Law 1618, Bukla Tur takes out Mandatory Travel Insurance for consumers within the scope of the package tour. In case of baggage loss or damage due to the gross negligence of Bukla Tur; provided that the consumer has made Bukla Tur issue a loss or damage report, regardless of the material and moral value or other qualified features of the items inside the baggage, half (1/2) of the transportation portion of the service fee will be paid by Bukla Tur to the consumer as compensation for the lost items and luggage. Bukla Tur is liable up to the transportation fee for loss, theft, or damage of items declared in writing and delivered together with their values. Except for cases arising after the start of the service due to force majeure, or for which the consumer or third party is responsible, or due to violations or negligence caused by the air/land carrier, Bukla Tur is responsible for any reason within this contract that disrupts the provision of the service. In situations within Bukla Tur's liability, compensation to the consumer may be provided in the form of a refund or provision of a substitute service, pursuant to the provisions of the TÜRSAB KÜTAHYA TABLE. If additional or substitute services have been received, used, or consumed by the consumer, the consumer’s rights to a refund or compensation will be forfeited.
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Domestic Tours; If the consumer terminates the contract at least 14 days before the start of the service, all fees paid, except for expenses arising from taxes, charges, and similar obligations, will be refunded. For cancellations made less than 14 days in advance, no refund will be made and the tour price will become due. In case of cancellations less than 14 days before the start of the tour, illness or death of the consumer or first-degree relatives not existing at the time of reservation and which prevents them from engaging in their usual occupation for 10 days, when proven by an official board report from a fully equipped Turkish State Hospital and submitted in writing before the start of the service, constitutes an exception. The consumer is insured for this situation and must submit their claim directly to the insurance company. Refund requests and evaluations are carried out by the insurance company. Bukla Tur has no involvement in this regard.
For International Tours and Special Products; For international tours or special products prepared or ordered for individuals, companies, schools, families, friends, etc. groups at the consumer's request; if canceled 90 days or more before the start date of the tour, all payments will be refunded except for deposit amount and expenses arising from taxes, charges, and similar obligations. If terminated 59-30 days before, the consumer agrees, declares, and undertakes to pay 50% of the service fee, and if less than 30 days, to pay the full amount to Bukla Tur. No changes or cancellations can be made for early reservation, promotion, official holiday, and festival period tours.
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Flight Tickets
Our tours are sold without flight tickets. Please do not buy flight tickets before the tour is confirmed or we have not confirmed it. If you want to buy flight tickets in advance, please buy them from the refundable and changeable class. We remind you that all responsibility for flight tickets belongs to you.
Single Difference
The difference you need to pay when you want to stay alone in the hotel room. This difference is not requested by Bukla Tour, but by the hotels, and generally the full cost of the second person's accommodation. All single room requests are adjusted according to the availability of the hotels, but are not guaranteed.
Special Tours
Other names are Closed Groups. These are tours prepared according to your requests and requests, or tours prepared by changing existing tours. We can prepare tours for you according to the number of people you want, at the date you want, at the place you want, and only for you.
Cash Installment
This is a payment method where the cash price of the tour is divided into 3 fixed installments. In this method, your information is taken with the mail order form, and when the day comes, you are expected to make the installment by bank transfer. If you do not pay the installment, the payment is made by adding the overdue fee to your credit card.
Bukla Güvencesi
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