Available Everyday !

Price 60 Euro per person

(contact us for early booking discounts)

Includes
* Pick up and drop off to the hotel
* Professional English speaking tour guides
* Horse Cart riding
* Lunch at a local restaurant
* All of the Tax and service charges

Itinerary
Around 08:30 am you will be picked up from your hotel and go on this wonderful all day tour.
After the tour, you will be transferred to your hotel. (we can always drop you at the town center)
17:00 Approx.. time for the tour ending.

Sites you'll see today
An hour's boat ride from the city center, this group of islands takes their name from Byzantine times when the princes were sent there on exile. There are nine islands, five smalls and four relatively large. No motorboat is permitted, transport being provided by horse-drawn carriages. On the islands there are many glorious 19th century mansions with characteristic overhanging balconies, most of which are inhabited only during the summer.

The tour starts with a drive to the pier. On board the private deluxe motorboat, refreshments are served. Upon arrival on the largest of the islands, Buyuk Ada, horse-drawn carriages take the guests on a tour of the island through the pine forest, riding next to picturesque bays and along the old villas.
Lunch is served at a seaside restaurant. Time is left to enjoy the cheerful local life on the village square. While cruising back to the city center, guitarists entertain on the motorboat.

Princess Islands : During the Byzantine period, prince and other royalty were exiled on the islands, and later members of the Ottoman sultans family were exiled there too, giving the islands their present name. They were taken by the Ottoman fleet during the siege of Constantinople in 1453. During the nineteenth century, the islands became a popular resort for Istanbul's wealthy, and Victorian-era cottages and houses are still preserved on the largest of the Princes' Islands.

The islands are an interesting anomaly because they allow for a very rare, albeit incomplete, insight into a multicultural society in modern Turkey, possibly alike to the multicultural society that once existed during the Ottoman Empire in places such as nearby Istanbul/Constantinople. Prior to 1950s, each of the inhabited islands had significant communities of ethnic minorities of Turkey, which is only the case to a much smaller extent. Since the vast majority of the residents and visitors are Turkish, today their legacy is of cultural rather than of demographic importance

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