Turkey
Noah’s Ark 5-Day Tour
Turkey’s Most Exciting Trip
Experience a trip of a lifetime!
Tour Dates Below!
Join us on an exclusive tour that features sites no other tour will visit relating to Noah’s ark!
Priced below the competition and the tour has you spending more days on the ground in Eastern Turkey than other tours! This tour also includes bottled water during the day, all meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner), unlike others. Tour price includes all ground transportation during tour dates (to and from hotels and airports), your domestic flight to and from Istanbul and Igdir or Agri and your Istanbul hotel when you arrive in Turkey (it does NOT include any Istanbul hotel at the end of the tour if you decide to stay in Istanbul longer). This is your tour for seeing the real Noah’s ark! If you wish to see the ark in the shortest amount of time and for a cheaper price check out our 3-day tour on this website.
Exclusive on this tour:
- Fossil bed site.
- A free copy of the English edition of the Ağrı Province Culture and Tourism Ministry book about the site’s early history including a chapter on the 2014 geophysical scan results and a DVD copy of the documentary film by Turkish filmmaker, Cem Sertesen, about the discovery of the Durupinar Ark site.
- The original landing site of Noah’s ark near the Iranian border.
- Newly discovered drogue stone (aka “anchor stone”) without any markings on it.
- In-depth lectures about the results of recent geophysical surveys from 2014, 2019 & the most recent 2021 scans done by the Turkish government.
- After the tour everyone will receive digital copies of our Noah’s ark presentation, digital photo books of the ark site’s history, etc. that are sold in the Discovered Media online store here.
- Tour participants will receive via email links to download copies of all our digital material sold on our sister website DiscoveredSinai.com’s online store that is related to Noah’s ark.
Come see where mankind restarted after the great global flood. See and hear exciting new pieces of evidence for Noah’s ark and the flood. This tour usually will run multiple times during the late spring, through summer and into the fall.
Please click on the “Book Now” button on this page which will direct you to the signup forms and payment options. You will also be able to select the date for your tour on that page. The following dates are being offered:
2024 Summer Tour Dates Coming in January 2024!
The tour itinerary below will change starting in 2024. Southern Turkey will be included in a longer tour.
Istanbul –> Igdir or Agri –> Dogubayazit –> Noah’s ark and surrounding sites –> Van –> Istanbul
5-Day Noah’s Ark Tour Program
Experience Ancient History
Day before tour
Istanbul
Arrive in Istanbul from your overseas flight before the next day’s early domestic flight to Eastern Turkey. Overnight in Istanbul near the airport.
Day 1
Iğdır/Ağrı, Doğubayazıt & Noah’s Ark
You will fly from Istanbul to our eastern Turkey gateway city of Iğdır or Ağrı. You will be met at the airport and driven by the foot of the tallest mountain in Turkey, Mount Ararat or as the Turks call it Ağrı Dağı. Finally, you will be driven to the hotel in Doğubayazıt to check into your room. After a short break, we will head to the Noah’s ark site for a short initial visit. You will then be driven back to the hotel to recover from jet lag. Dinner will be at a local restaurant in Doğubayazıt. We will end the day with a short meeting at the hotel to meet all the tour participants and answer any questions about the rest of the itinerary. Overnight in Doğubayazıt.
Day 2
Kargakonmaz Fossil Site & Noah’s Ark
We will leave the hotel mid-morning for our first stop near the Noah’s ark site. Near the village of Kargakonmaz up in the hills we will visit a spectacular fossil bed site where you will be able to document seashells and sand dollars embedded in the rock layers. If you’re lucky you might even find one laying on the ground as a free souvenir. From Kargakonmaz we will drive to the Noah’s ark site for a full day of exploration and lectures. You will hear first hand what the geophysical surveys found below the dirt at the ark site from those who were on the expeditions including discussion of data not publicly released. We will eat lunch at the site as well. Dinner will be at a local restaurant back near the hotel. Overnight in Doğubayazıt.
Day 3
Sağlıksuyu/Arzap aka ‘The Village of 8’ and Ishak Pasha Palace
An exciting day is in store for day number 4. We will stop for a photo opportunity in a local village near the base of the mountain. Next, we will continue to a nearby village and see up close what many believe are ancient drogue stones used by Noah. We will be visiting a newly discovered drogue stone without any carvings on it. An exclusive for this tour! Finally, see ancient nearby ruins and hear how they could be related to Noah and his family. We will do some traditional sightseeing to end the day with a visit to the Ottoman-era Ishak Pasha Palace and a nearby museum. We will eat lunch and dinner at a local restaurant back near the hotel. Overnight in Doğubayazıt.
Day 4
Urartian Ruins & Noah’s ark
We will be driving to local Urartian archaeological sites to see some of the ruins left by the Kingdom of Urartu (Biblical “Ararat”). Learn from local archaeologists about this ancient kingdom where the ark of Noah landed in. We will visit the ark site for one last time and hike above the site to the original landing site by the Iranian border to see where Ron had found an ancient stele with pictographs of the boat with 8 faces in it and a section of the bottom of the boat embedded in the ground. We will travel in the evening to Van which is two hours south of Doğubayazıt. Overnight in Van.
Day 5
Van (Capital of ancient Urartu)
Van is a lakeside city that has impressive Urartian ruins being it was the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Urartu. It also has an ancient Armenian Christian church on an island on the lake. We will visit both sites and possibly the large impressive archaeological museum. We will spend the night in Van for the final day of the tour.
Tour over
Istanbul
Fly back to Istanbul to connect with your overseas flight. If your overseas flight is the next day we will help you arrange a hotel in Istanbul. Any hotels on the return to Istanbul are extra and NOT included in the tour price. Feel free to spend another day or two exploring this magnificent city’s ancient mosques, churches and ruins. Visit their impressive archaeological museum and see some of the amazing Ottoman Palaces. We can arrange a local tour for the group for Istanbul if enough people are interested.
