Tour Detail
Meeting at the hotel reception at 10:00am
Starting the day with a visit to local market (available only on Monday, Friday and Saturdays ) or a morning walk to the fruit orchards of Ayvali Village. We will collect and taste fresh fruits from the trees (harvesting between June and October) or visit the cave storages for lemons and potatoes. The tour continues with the walk through the narrow streets of the village. Each door opens for an invitation as the villagers invite you for a cup of tea or a plate full of dessert, fruit from their house. According to the season, we join the villagers to learn and help making grape syrup, tomato sauce productions and pumpkin seed collecting. Visiting the local meeting point, Kahvehane (coffeehouse) to learn more about their lifestyle and local games while drinking the Turkish coffee and tea. Visit the mosque in the village and learn more about the religious customs. For the lunch, we are invited to a real village house to join a Turkish family. We’ll collect the ingredients from their garden and we will participate the cooking of the delicious Turkish meals.. We are going to have the lunch by sitting together with the family as it is in the traditional way. After the lunch, drop you off to your hotel.