7-Day Signature Turkey — Gamified, Gastro & Archaeo Micro-Group
From $6,650 USD per person · 7 Days
Built on the EMPTY MAPS framework (Year 0). One of three flagship Gamified Educational Turkey Tours — site-specific play designed by working archaeologists, calibrated to your party, region and season. Read the full EMPTY MAPS · Year 0 explainer →Signature Made — single tier, max 8 pax, fully hosted. A seven-day educational programme that weaves three of our Signature concepts into one continuous narrative: Archaeo (closed-door, after-hours access), Gamified (site-specific puzzles co-designed with working archaeologists) and Gastro (ancient-recipe dinners reconstructed from primary sources and cooked at the excavations they came from).
You will not share your guides with another party. You will not be hurried through a turnstile. Instead, you will walk the 9,000-year-old Çatalhöyük mound at dawn with the head excavator, decode a Justinianic cipher among the Medusa-head columns of the Basilica Cistern after the public has left, and sit down to a Neolithic hearth dinner reconstructed from the dig's own archaeobotanical record — wild einkorn, lentil, hackberry, aurochs — by a chef-gastronomist who reads the publications.
The route is built around the Archaeo-Sovereignty programme: a defined, disclosed share of every fee is wired directly to the Çatalhöyük Research Project and to the Cappadocia heritage foundation hosting your closed-door visits. You receive a formal patronage acknowledgement at the end of the trip.
Not an AI-generated package. Route, hosts and access windows are reviewed and signed off by our TURSAB-licensed Signature director and the relevant site directorates before everMoments from our tours
