Ankara : Private Walking Tour With A Guide ( Private Tour )
Description
Ankara can sometimes feel overlooked by first-time visitors, but exploring it with a local reveals its rich layers of history and culture. Discover Turkey’s capital on a private walking tour guided by a knowledgeable local who helps make the city easy to navigate and understand. This personalized tour allows you to discover the exterior of monuments, including museums, while learning about the city’s history and culture. If you would like to include a museum visit, your guide can customize the itinerary to suit your interests—just let us know in advance. Before the tour, your guide will contact you to learn about your preferences, ensuring a smooth and meaningful experience. Ideal for families, solo travelers, and couples, this walking tour offers insider knowledge, hidden gems, and a deeper connection to Ankara beyond the usual tourist paths.
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Itinerary
The Temple of Augustus and Rome is an augusteum located in the Altındağ district of Ankara. It is thought to have been built around 25–20 AD. Besides being one of the most important Roman-period ruins in the city, it is also known for the Monumentum Ancyranum. This is an inscription about the works of Augustus, who was considered the first Roman emperor. It is the most complete copy of Res Gestae Divi Augusti that has survived to the present day, as the original in Rome had disappeared.
Column of Julianus or the popularly known Belkıs Minaresi. It is an obelisk located in Ulus district of Ankara. Julianus, the last pagan Roman emperor, declared war on the Persians in 362 and created a route that would pass through Ankara.
Ankara Castle is an historic fortification in the city of Ankara, Turkey, constructed in or after the 7th century. The earliest fortification on the site was constructed in the 8th century BC by the Phrygians and rebuilt in 278 BC by the Galatians.
Anıtkabir is a complex located in the Çankaya district of Ankara, which includes the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Designed by Emin Onat and Orhan Arda, the construction of Anıtkabir began in 1944 and was completed in 1953. In addition to the mausoleum building, the complex consists of various structures and monuments, as well as a wooded area known as the Peace Park.
The Roman Baths of Ankara are the ruined remains of an ancient Roman bath complex in Ankara, Turkey, which were uncovered by excavations carried out in 1937–1944, and have subsequently been opened to the public as an open-air museum.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
The local guide will pick you up at your hotel ( if located in Ankara ). Travelers can request the tour to start from any centrally located hotel. In case your hotel is outside the city we will select a convenient meeting point in the city center.Tour may end at a different location from the departure point unless requested in advance of the tour.
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Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- It's a city tour and not a tour inside the monuments.
Reviews(18)
The tour was good but the price did not include transportation between the sites. I had to pay extra which I think is not correct.
Mr Ertug was a wonderful guide, and this tour through Ankara was more than a pleasurable experience. He gave me all the historical facts about the places we visited, and he explained them so eloquently. I can't recommend it more; it was a fun and positive experience.
Excellent walk through ankara, with our guide, highly recommended this walk, through the mausoleum of ataturk and walk through the old city of ankara
We had a wonderful tour of Ankara with Ertuğ (Ankara Tour Guide). We learned so much about Atatürk during our visit to the mausoleum, and even when there was a small schedule change due to visiting dignitaries, he handled everything with flexibility and professionalism. He answered all of our questions about ancient history, recent events, and current affairs in Turkey, and we truly came away with a much deeper understanding. We also loved visiting the old town, seeing the city walls and a 16th-century mosque still in use, and he even helped us bargain at a local nut shop. Overall, an excellent experience — highly recommended!
The tour was very informative and I learned a lot about the city of Ankara and the country. Highly recommend this - the guide was fantastic!
Kutlukan was an excellent guide and became a friend. He was very accommodating, and very knowledgeable about the history of this entire area from ancient times to modern times
The guide was very friendly, kind and knowledgeable about his job. It was a very nice experience.
My guide Ozgur was amazing. He showed me what I wanted to see and more. He spent a lot of extra time with me explaining and showing me around. It was definitely worth it.
I booked a walking tour to see the real city, not the tourist places. Samaher provided a terrific tour of the castle across from my hotel. Then we walked downhill through old town Ankara to the Metro and took a train into the center of Ankara to see the modern city. She was very knowledgeable and simply wonderful!
Han did a good job of showing us Ankara. He adapted when he realized what he had planned was included on our Road Scholar tour. We enjoyed his youthful approach to his city .
