Ancient paths, fairy chimneys, and food that tastes like someone's grandma made it.
Türkiye
Book now with $550. Pay the rest at your pace.
9 days starting at $3,750 USD.
Up to 14 solo female travelers.
Most Türkiye trips run the same tired loop. This one takes the long way.
You’ll get Istanbul and the cave country of Cappadocia. But you’ll also wake up in Safranbolu, a whole Ottoman town of timber mansions and cobbled lanes, and in Amasya, tucked under cliffs carved with the rock tombs of ancient kings.
In between there’s saffron in the markets, tea pressed into your hands by sweet strangers, and mornings that smell like woodsmoke and the sea.
What you’ll remember most is the women. Making mosaics at a cooperative in Amasya. Lunch cooked by village moms outside Ephesus. Learning to weave from women who’ve kept the craft alive for generations.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Step into the past
Cook side by side with women who’ve perfected dishes passed down for generations.
Cruise the Kusadasi Coast
Spend the day sailing on a gullet boat, swimming & sunbathing.
Ebru marbling workshop
Swirl paint on water and pull a pattern onto paper, an old Ottoman art.
Chat with the women of a small village
Sip tea in the sunshine as you craft traditional dolls with local women and hear stories of life, family, and resilience in rural Turkey
Dine with locals, entrepreneurs, and NGOs
Carefully chosen meals and a sampling of all the best dishes, often at family homes
TRAVELER LOVE
INCLUSIONS
1 domestic flight
Arrival airport pickup on day 1
Hand-picked, extra special accommodations
8 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 1 dinners
Max 14 solo female travelers
Twin share rooms
All activities listed in the itinerary
Expert local guide for the whole tour
MEET YOUR NEW BFF
GUARANTEED SOLO TIME
Spend it with friends or explore on your own, but take time to reflect on your incredible journey.
GET YOUR BEAUTY SLEEP
Enjoy our hand-picked accommodation combining the best of design, location and comfort.
TOUR AT A GLANCE
DAY 1 - Welcome to Istanbul!
Welcome dinner in an underground cistern
DAY 2 - Istanbul
Marbling workshop, the Blue Mosque, and the Grand Bazaar
DAY 3 - SAFRANBOLU
Drive to a UNESCO Ottoman town of timber mansions
DAY 4 - AMASYA
Riverside houses, cliff tombs, and a mosaic workshop with local women
DAY 5 - CAPPADOCIA
A Roman bath, cave churches, and a women-run kitchen
DAY 6 - CAPPADOCIA
Underground city, block printing, and carpet weaving
DAY 7 - EPHESUS & ŞİRİNCE
Ancient Ephesus, a village-moms lunch, and wine in the hills
DAY 8 - KUŞADASI
A boat day on the turquoise Aegean
Farewell for now
Breakfast, goodbyes and check out
Why Choose SoFe Travel?
Built for Solo Women
Every trip is designed specifically for solo female travelers. That means no awkward third wheels, no feeling like the odd one out—just instant community, shared values, and support from Day One.
Real Connection
Almost everyone arrives solo, and 92% of our travelers stay in touch long after the trip ends. It’s not just a tour—it’s a chance to make lifelong friendships in some of the world’s most unforgettable places.
Space to Breathe
We build in solo time, always. Want to wander a market alone or skip a group dinner for some quiet? Go for it. Prefer a travel buddy? There's always someone ready to join you. You do you—with the comfort of community when you want it.
No Forced Single Supplements
Forget the extra fees. Our roommate matching quiz pairs you with a like-minded traveler, or you can upgrade to a private room if you prefer your own space.
Is The Turkey Tour Right for you?
Moderate Activity, Lots of Variety
This trip includes walking tours on cobblestone streets, exploring ruins, and light hiking in valleys. You don’t need to be an athlete, but you should be comfortable on your feet for a few hours at a time.
Cultural Curiosity Required
From learning traditional crafts to dining in family homes and women-run co-ops, this tour is all about connection. Come with an open mind, a sense of curiosity, and a willingness to embrace the unfamiliar.
Your Turkey Itinerary
Day 1 - Where East meets West (and you meet everyone)
You’ve made it to Istanbul, the city that sits with one foot in Europe and one in Asia. Drop your bags, shake off the flight, and head out to see a little of the neighborhood before the sun goes down.
Tonight you’ll meet everyone for the first time over dinner in an old underground cistern, one of those only-in-Istanbul rooms, all stone arches and low light. This is where the trip starts and where the strangers you’ll spend the next nine days with stop being strangers.
Meals: dinner
Day 2 - Your hands in the water, your feet in the old city
Ebru is the old Ottoman art of marbling, swirling color across a tray of water and lifting it onto paper, and no two come out the same. Yours is coming home with you.
Then into the old city, the heart of two empires. You’ll see the Hagia Sophia from the square, a building that’s been a church, a mosque, and the most famous dome in the world. Stand in the Hippodrome where chariots once raced, then step inside the Blue Mosque and look up at twenty thousand hand-painted tiles.
Lunch is yours to choose street food, a traditional Turkish meal, or spend the time with handheld baklava wandering the city instead. Then the Grand Bazaar, a covered maze of a market selling everything from spices to gold. The rest of the evening is yours.
Meals: breakfast
Day 3 - Where the whole town is UNESCO and the air smells like saffron
This morning you leave the city behind. It’s about four hours by private van up into the hills, and the payoff is Safranbolu, a whole Ottoman town so well preserved it’s under UNESCO protection. Timber mansions, cobbled lanes, not a modern building in sight.
You’ll wander the old bazaar, step inside Cinci Han, a centuries-old caravanserai where traders once stopped for the night, and see how people actually lived in one of the town’s grand old houses. This is saffron country, so the markets are full of it, alongside Turkish delight and things you’ll want to bring home. Tonight you sleep in the old town itself.
Meals: breakfast and lunch
Day 4 - Where royal tombs look down on the river
Another morning, another stretch of road, about four hours to Amasya. It’s worth every minute. The town sits right on the Yeşilırmak River, with old Ottoman houses lined up along the water and sheer cliffs rising straight up behind them. Carved into those cliffs are the rock tombs of the Pontic kings, cut nearly two thousand years ago.
You’ll walk the old town, see the restored riverside houses, and visit the Sultan Bayezid II mosque complex. In the afternoon you sit down with women at a local cooperative and make your own mosaic, guided by their hands, and what you make helps keep their work going.
Meals: breakfast
Day 5 - Roman baths, cave churches, and a town run by women
Today you cross Central Anatolia to Cappadocia, and the landscape slowly turns strange and beautiful. You’ll break the drive at Yozgat to see the Sarıkaya Roman Bath, an ancient bathing complex still standing after all these centuries.
Lunch is somewhere special. A restaurant in Cappadocia run entirely by local women, cooking the food they grew up on, in a place that exists to give them work. Then you’ll see the Göreme Open Air Museum, a cluster of rock-cut churches with Byzantine paintings still glowing on the walls after seven hundred years. A stop at a family pottery studio, and the rest of the afternoon is yours. Tonight you sleep in a cave.
Meals: breakfast and lunch
Day 6 - Balloons at dawn, cities underground
If you’re up for it, this is the morning to be in the sky. The balloon flight over Cappadocia is optional, but watching the sun come up over the fairy chimneys from a basket is the kind of thing people book this whole trip for. Worth the early alarm.
After breakfast you go underground, into Kaymaklı, a city carved down into the earth where whole communities once lived, hid, and waited out danger. Some of it dates back nearly three thousand years. Lunch is homecooked by a local woman, regional food eaten in the kind of setting no restaurant can fake.
Then two stops with the women’s cooperatives. First a workshop in Ürgüp where you block-print your own Anatolian tote to take home. Then a visit in Ortahisar to watch carpets come to life on the loom and see silk turned from cocoon to thread. The evening is yours.
Meals: breakfast
Day 7 - Seven wonders, village moms, and wine in the hills
Early flight west to İzmir this morning, then you’re on the coast, where the air changes and everything smells like sea and pine. You’ll drive to Kuşadası, then straight into Ephesus, one of the best-preserved ancient cities anywhere. Marble streets, the great facade of the Library of Celsus, the kind of place you walk through slowly. Nearby, what’s left of the Temple of Artemis, once one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
Lunch is the one to look forward to. A whole spread cooked by the moms of a nearby village, laid out buffet-style, the food they make for their own families. Afterward you head up to Şirince, a hillside village of white houses known for its fruit wines, with time to taste them before the day winds down. Tonight, the coast.
Meals: breakfast and lunch
Day 8 - Today the whole day is blue
You’re out on a boat off Kuşadası, drifting between quiet bays where the water goes so clear you can see straight to the bottom. Swim off the side whenever the mood takes you. Dry off in the sun. Lunch comes out fresh on deck, eaten with salt still on your skin and nowhere in the world you need to be.
Slow morning, warm water, long lazy afternoon. This is the day you’ll be daydreaming about at your desk in three months.
We’ll also visit Hierapolis, a Roman bath center founded in 190 BC, featuring ancient temples, holy areas, fountains, baths, basilicas, necropolises, and an impressive theater. The rest of the evening is free to enjoy at our thermal spa hotel.
Meals: breakfast and dinner
Day 9 - Son güzel gün (one last morning)
One last Turkish breakfast, the full spread, before it’s time to go. İzmir makes an easy launch pad if you’re carrying on into Europe, and if home is calling, you’re set up for a smooth trip back too.
You came for Türkiye. You’re leaving with a phone full of women who already want to know where you’re going next.
Meals: breakfast
HAND-PICKED ACCOMMODATION
AGARTA CAVE HOTEL
Your room in Cappadocia is carved straight into the rock, stone walls, a fireplace, and a private terrace looking out over Çavuşin castle and the village.
Step out onto that terrace at dawn and the hot air balloons drift right overhead, hundreds of them, close enough to hear the burners.
Plus this place has the best Turkish breakfast around.
We match you with your most compatible roommate
We get it—sharing a room with a stranger can feel like a gamble. That’s why we’ve partnered with a professional matchmaker and psychologist to create a bespoke roommate matching quiz, designed to pair you with someone you’ll actually click with.
Whether you’re an early riser or a night owl, a social butterfly or someone who values quiet time, our quiz helps ensure you’re matched with the best possible roommate. And if you prefer your own space, you always have the option to upgrade to a private room.
No stress, no awkward surprises—just a trip made better by great company.
MEET FEYZA
YOUR GUIDE FOR THE TRIP
Licensed guide, former chef, and proud Türkiye obsessive
Feyza knows this country cold, the valleys of Cappadocia, the quiet beaches most people miss, the backstreets of Istanbul where the good tea is. She loves guiding women most of all. There’s something about a group of women figuring it out together, leaning on the local women who host them, that makes every trip feel less like a tour and more like a shared adventure.
When she’s not guiding, she’s cooking, chasing sunsets with her camera, or hanging out with her niece. Ask her anything. She’s got a story for all of it.
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Dates & Prices
Prices listed in USD
We sell out fast!
Hold your spot with a $550 deposit that goes toward the total cost of your tour.
Flexible payment plans
Pay what you want when up want with a nonrefundable 50% payment due 9 weeks before departure and the balance due 90 days before departure.
Free transfer
Change your dates or your destination one time for free, give us at least 9 weeks notice before departure.
2027 women only Turkey Tours
May 8, 2027
Arrive on Saturday
May 8, 2027
Arrive on Saturday
May 16, 2027
Depart on Sunday
May 16, 2027
Depart on Sunday
$3,750
with a private room +$1,400
$3,750
with a private room +$1,400
Sep. 4, 2027
Arrive on Saturday
Sep. 4, 2027
Arrive on Saturday
Sep. 12, 2027
Depart on Sunday
Sep. 12, 2027
Depart on Sunday
$3,950
with a private room +$1,400
$3,950
with a private room +$1,400
Oct. 1, 2027
Arrive on Friday
Oct. 1, 2027
Arrive on Friday
Oct. 9, 2027
Depart on saturday
Oct. 9, 2027
Depart on saturday
$4,175
with a private room +$1,400
$4,175
with a private room +$1,400
Book now with $550. Pay the rest at your pace.
Frequently Asked Questions About Turkey
WHAT ARE THE ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE DETAILS?
Arrival:
Istanbul International Airport (IST)
We strongly recommend that you arrive by 3pm to make it in time for the welcome meeting and dinner, but we will pick you top any time today. Your airport transfer will meet you with a sign with the SoFe Travel logo. The transfer will take you from the airport to our group hotel in Istanbul. If fellow travelers arrive around the same time, we’ll bring you to the hotel together.
Departure:
Istanbul International Airport (IST)
Hotel check out is at 10am. You are welcome to leave any time today. Ask your guide to help you arrange a ride to the airport or share a transfer with fellow travelers.
WHAT'S NOT INCLUDED?
- International airfares
- Visa fee if applicable
- Travel insurance (mandatory for all travelers)
- Airport drop off
- Driver & guide tips
- Any meals not listed under inclusions
- Any optional activities as indicated in the itinerary
PAYMENT & REFUND POLICY
- A non-refundable $550 deposit is required to hold your spot.
- Final payment is due 90 days before departure.
- Pay as much as often as you like until the due date.
- If you cancel your spot earlier than 90 days before departure, you can apply your payment to any trip within the next year.
- No refunds on deposits.
DOMESTIC FLIGHTS
On rare occasions, any domestic flight that we include in this trip may be changed or canceled with little notice. Remember, we cannot control the decisions that airlines make, so sometimes amendments will need to be made to our mode of transportation. Rest assured that if this happens, we will still get you to your destination. Part of the unique experience of traveling in any form is having the flexibility and grace to embrace detours.
DO I NEED A VISA?
A visa is required for entrance into Turkey for most passport holders.
Thankfully, the process is entirely online at this link and you can be granted an e-visa within 24 hours of applying. We recommend applying for the e-visa within 2 weeks before departure to Turkey on the government website.
NEW INFORMATION REGARDING VISAS FOR AMERICAN AND CANADIAN CITIZENS:
Beginning in 2024, citizens from the US and Canada are now exempt from obtaining a visa for Turkey if visiting for tourism purposes less than 90 days.
Here is the official link related to visa information: https://www.mfa.gov.tr/visa-information-for-foreigners.en.mfa
WILL THIS ITINERARY CHANGE?
The itinerary is subject to change due for any reason – weather, unexpected cancellations, impromptu local opportunities, or surprise additions.
All bookings are subject to our terms and conditions.
DO I NEED TRAVEL INSURANCE
Comprehensive travel insurance is mandatory or you may be refused to join the tour. See our guide for help choosing a plan.
HOW MUCH LUGGAGE CAN I BRING?
The baggage allowance for our internal flights is 1 check in suitcase that is a maximum of 30lbs/15kg and 1 carryon. An additional fee applies to bags that exceeds this and is payable at the airport.
Still unsure if this trip is right for you?
Book a 15-minute clarity call with Jaqueline or Grace and we’ll walk through your questions together.
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