Routes

Beginning with the Old Antep city tour and continuing with the Yesemek Stone workshop, the first known open-air sculpture workshop in history, surrounded by an emerald green lake on three sides and steep rocky hills surrounding it, Rumkale, a wonder of nature and human beings, continuing with the Halfeti boat tour, to the land of black rose, where stone architecture houses, mosques are hidden under water, to the roads hosting various civilizations leading to the Nemrut National Park... Our route traces the two great empires in the region... We continue our route which begins with two important settlements of the glorious Hittite Empire, Yesemek, the first open-air sculpture workshop in history, and an important royal city Tilmen, with Gaziantep bazaars. In the bazaars, we can't take our eyes off the kerchiefs that looks like they came out of Hittite reliefs (you should definitely try one of these colorful kerchiefs). From the old city to the Zeugma Mosaic Museum, we are chasing after the traces of another civilization, Commagene. After visiting Zeugma, the magnificent ancient city of Zeugma with its 80 thousand population, its villas decorated with extraordinary mosaics, this border city of the Commagene State, and stopping by the quiet and peaceful monasteries of Rumkale, our route leads us to Nemrut. We visit the Commagene Civilization in Mount Nemrut,where there are giant statues of gods commissioned by Antiochos, who combined the genes of the East (Persian) and the West (Greek), Arsemia, Cendere Bridge and Greger. Thousands of years later, we are witnessing again the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures while watching that famous handshake scene (dexiosis).