MEGA JAPAN AND ISTANBUL

Arrive three hours prior to departure at Tocumen International Airport to board Turkish Airlines flight TK 800 to Istanbul. Overnight on board.

Arrival at Istanbul International Airport at approximately 15:35 hrs, one of the largest airports in the world. Free time before connecting flight to Tokyo.

Board Turkish Airlines flight TK 198 at 02:30 a.m., arriving at Haneda International Airport at 7:45 a.m. After immigration and customs, meet your Spanish-speaking assistant and transfer to the hotel in Tokyo. Check-in and accommodation.

Breakfast. Departure at 8:30 a.m. for a guided city tour including:

• Meiji Shinto Shrine
• Imperial Palace Plaza
• Asakusa Kannon Temple & Nakamise Shopping Street
• Ginza District

Lunch at a local restaurant. Afternoon at leisure. Return to hotel and overnight.

Breakfast at the hotel. 08:00 Meeting in the lobby.

Meeting in the lobby and beginning of the excursion to Hakone National Park by private car with Spanish-speaking guide to visit:

• Lake Ashi with mini-cruise
• Owakudani Valley
• Hakone Open-Air Museum

Lunch at a local restaurant. Return to the hotel. Accommodation.

Breakfast at the hotel. 08:00 Meeting in the lobby and meeting with Spanish-speaking guide for transfer to the station by private car or on foot with Spanish-speaking assistant.

Departure from Tokyo to Kyoto by Nozomi bullet train (assistant will not board the train). Upon arrival in Kyoto, meet with Spanish-speaking guide. Visit Nara by private car with Spanish-speaking guide to visit:

• Todaiji Temple with its enormous Buddha statue
• Park of the Sacred Deer
• Gion (Geisha District)

Lunch at a local restaurant. Transfer to the hotel in Kyoto. Accommodation.

Luggage will be sent to the hotel in Kyoto.

Breakfast at the hotel. 8:30 AM Meeting in the lobby.

Full-day tour of Kyoto with an English-speaking guide by private bus. You will visit:

• Kinkaku-ji Temple
• Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
• Tenryu-ji Temple
• Sanjusangendo Temple (with a thousand statues of Kannon, the god of mercy)
• Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine.

5:30 PM Return to the hotel. Lunch at a restaurant is included that day.

Breakfast at the hotel. Whole day free for personal activities.

OPTIONAL: KYOTO – HIROSHIMA – KYOTO

Breakfast at the hotel.

07:15 Meeting in the lobby with Spanish-speaking guide and transfer to Kyoto Station.

08:27 Departure to Hiroshima by Nozomi bullet train TBA.

10:03 Hiroshima and Miyajima tour to visit:

Miyajima Island and Itsukushima Shrine

Peace Park

Atomic Bomb Dome

Lunch at a local restaurant.

After the visit, transfer to Hiroshima Station. At 18:22 Departure to Kyoto by Nozomi bullet train TBA.

At 19:59 Arrival at Kyoto Station and return to the hotel by private bus

Breakfast at the hotel.

At the scheduled time, meeting with a Spanish-speaking assistant in the lobby who will accompany you. Transfer to Osaka International Airport (KIX) by private car to take flight to Istanbul at 22:50 p.m. on flight TK-087.

Welcome to Türkiye, a country full of culture, history, and unique experiences, where the differences between East and West blend together. Get ready to enjoy extraordinary holidays.

Arrival on international flight at the spectacular Istanbul Airport (IST) around 05:40 hrs. Inaugurated in April 2019, today it is the largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. After disembarking, going through immigration and claiming luggage, you must proceed to our meeting point at exit gate 8. Then, meeting with our drivers for transfer to the hotel. Arrival and immediate accommodation for rest.

In the afternoon, free time to explore this wonderful city.

Breakfast. Free day. Possibility of taking the optional excursion: “PEARLS OF THE GOLDEN HORN AND BOSPHORUS.” Departure approx. at 08:00 (schedule to be confirmed by the guide) (includes lunch in a typical restaurant): Visit the old Jewish quarter in Balat, the Greek quarter in Fener, and enjoy the magnificent views of the “Golden Horn”; afterwards visit St. George’s Cathedral, the main patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church; continuation to the Suleiman the Magnificent Mosque, designed by the Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan, which has the largest dome of all mosques in Istanbul. Then proceed to the Spice Bazaar, a place with a special charm for its color and aroma — the perfect place to buy teas, herbs, nuts, traditional sweets, and of course spices.

The tour concludes with a boat trip along the Bosphorus, the strait that divides the city between Europe and Asia, where we will appreciate wonderful views of Ottoman fortresses, palaces, mansions, and the bridges connecting both sides of the city. Transfer to the hotel. Accommodation.

Note: The order of the excursion days in Istanbul may be reversed according to operational conditions such as number of participants, weather, traffic, or closing days of monuments.

Breakfast. At the indicated time, transfer to the airport to take flight back to Panama on flight TK-801. Estimated arrival in Panama around 17:15 hrs.