Starting price reflects land-only tour cost. Great Value: see our Tour Cost page for pricing that Includes International Airfare.
This journey is specially designed for a small group of 16 to 24 Smithsonian travelers and offers outstanding travel value.
Throughout this tour, travel in the company of an exceptional Smithsonian Study Leader. Stephanie Larson is an associate professor of classics at Bucknell University who received her Ph.D in classics from the University of Texas at Austin. Stephanie will lead the April 2012 departure. Janet Duncan Jones is full of stories from over 20 years of archaeological field work in Greece, Turkey, Tunisia and Jordan. Janet will lead the May 2012 departure. Jane C. Waldbaum, a classical archaeologist, is professor emerita of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she has taught courses on Greek, Roman, and Egyptian art and archaeology, as well as a special seminar on “Ethics in Archaeology, Museums, and the Art Market.” Jane will be on the August 2012 departure.
Tour the ancient ruins at Troy, Pergamum, and Ephesus and enjoy an exclusive lecture by a local archaeologist.
Spend four nights aboard a privately chartered, traditional gulet yacht, cruising along the turquoise waters of the Turkish Riviera.
Navigate through an intriguing maze of channels aboard a small skiff to see the Lycian rock tombs at the Lake of Koycegiz.
This tour features the following World Heritage sites in Turkey:
