Du premier temple du monde au berceau de l'écriture — chaque destination est choisie pour sa profondeur, et non pour sa carte postale.
One of the world's earliest known monumental ritual sites — predating Stonehenge by many millennia. Our specialists guide you through the T-shaped pillars, reading the enclosures slowly and in your own time.
Se renseigner sur Göbeklitepe →
Bazaars perfumed with isot and cardamom, the sacred pool of Balıklıgöl, and a museum that houses the world's oldest human statue. A city where mythology becomes street life.
Explorer Şanlıurfa →
The sister sanctuary of Göbeklitepe — a rock-cut chamber of eleven phallic pillars watched by a single carved head, and the 2.3-metre seated statue that is the oldest life-sized human figure on Earth.
Explorer Karahantepe →
Honey-coloured limestone terraces cascading toward the Mesopotamian plains. Stay in a restored 17th-century mansion and dine on the recipes of Assyrian, Arab and Kurdish neighbours.
Explorer Mardin →
The longest continuous defensive wall after the Great Wall of China — five kilometres of black basalt encircling Roman, Byzantine, Sassanid, Seljuk and Ottoman quarters above the Tigris and the UNESCO-listed Hevsel Gardens.
Explorer Diyarbakır →
UNESCO's Creative City of Gastronomy and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth. Dine through baklava ateliers and centuries-old kitchens, then stand before the Gypsy Girl in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum — home to the finest Roman mosaics ever unearthed in Anatolia.
Explorer Gaziantep →
Climb to the 2,134-metre summit of Mount Nemrut at first light. Watch the colossal stone heads of King Antiochus and his pantheon catch the dawn — alone.
Se renseigner sur Nemrut →
Sleep in a cave suite carved into volcanic tuff. Float at sunrise over the rose-coloured valleys. Walk the underground cities of the Hittites and early Christians.
Explorer Cappadocia →
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates — where writing, the wheel, the city and the law were born. We trace the river of human memory from its source.
Se renseigner sur Mesopotamia →Vu du ciel, depuis son sommet, de l'intérieur de son cercle, et à travers une seule pierre sculptée — un regard plus attentif sur le sanctuaire au sommet d'une colline qui a réécrit la préhistoire.
Four overlapping stone circles unfold across the limestone bedrock — a Neolithic sanctuary raised 7,000 years before the pyramids.
From the summit canopy, the Mesopotamian plain stretches to the horizon — the same view the builders surveyed at the dawn of settled life.
Twin five-metre T-pillars stand at the heart of each enclosure — stylised human figures facing one another across a polished ritual floor.
A Neolithic bestiary carved in low relief twelve thousand years ago — a language without writing, still waiting to be read.
Collected from your hotel in Şanlıurfa by private vehicle. A thermos of menengiç coffee and warm simit travel with you as the city falls away behind.
Arrival at Göbeklitepe before the gates open to the public. The site is yours — an hour of silence inside Enclosure D as dawn strikes the central T-pillars.
A private tour with a working member of the excavation team. The fox, the scorpion, the vulture stone — read by someone who has spent a career translating them.
A short drive south to the newly opened sanctuary at Karahantepe, where chambers carved into bedrock are reshaping what we know about the Neolithic mind.
Return to Urfa for a private table at a restored 18th-century stone han — çiğköfte hand-kneaded at the table, lamb tandır, isot-spiced mezze and pomegranate sherbet.
A scholar-led visit to the Urfa Man — the world's oldest life-sized human statue — and the full-scale reconstructed enclosure transported from Göbeklitepe itself.
Pre-Opening Access
An hour inside the enclosures before the first visitor arrives — arranged through our standing relationship with the site directorate.
Scholar in Residence
Privately briefed by an active Göbeklitepe or Karahantepe archaeologist, not a contracted guide.
Karahantepe Sister Site
A privately guided visit to Karahantepe, subject to the current site regulations issued by the Şanlıurfa Museum directorate.
Helicopter Transfer
Optional rotary transfer from Gaziantep or Adıyaman for guests on a tighter itinerary.
Evening at the Han
A private dinner of regional menus in a vaulted 17th-century caravanserai, hosted by a local food historian.
Bespoke Pace
Two days, four days, or a week — the rhythm is shaped to you, never to a coach schedule.
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