All our tours are a product of constant careful research and evaluation enhanced by direct local knowledge of the region and our thirty years experience. Covering 12,000 years of Anatolian history, this unique 12-Day tour of Eastern Turkey takes in three distinct climate zones and four major civilizations as well as the oldest monumental megalithic structure in the world; you will see tea plantations on the Black Sea, the Biblical Mountain of Ararat where Noah's Ark came to rest, stunning Lake Van, the capital city and principal citadel of the Kingdom of Urartu before ending where it all began, with the astonishing site of Göbekli Tepe at 10,000 BC!