Istiklal cad. 21, 50400 Urgup Turkey (90 384) 341 6255 · fax 341 6257 Sevgi Yolu 10A, 35920 Selçuk Turkey (90 232) 252 0601 · Fax 252 0603 Sevim Karabiyik Ask us... ...or just say hello. Dear Sevim, Zero Spam Policy® You'll never get unsolicited mail from us Member TURSAB - Licence #3565

A modest, one-woman travel agency that got out of hand... Argonaut Escapades was founded in 1997 in Urgup, the chief town of Turkish Cappadocia. It did pretty much what every other travel agency does. It organized private and small-group tours. It arranged transportation. It found nice, attractive hotels. It supplied good guides. Most of all it specialized in setting up walking tours . I did much of the guiding myself, but I also managed to put together a small but super team of English-speaking guides. Our clients, I suppose, liked us. They came back. They sent their friends. My workload kept growing. Last year I opened a second office in Ephesus, far away at the western end of our huge country. Ephesus is a great location for tours in Western Turkey. Nearly everything along the Aegean coast that a visitor may be interested in - Pergamum, Pamukkale, Miletus, Bodrum, Fethiye, the Greek Islands - is within manageable distance. The airport is near. Best of all, Sirince, my favorite village, is a short hop up the mountain. We have a good arrangement with a partner in Istanbul who takes care of our operations in the Big City. Sailing is no problem either (Lutfiye, great girl, fixes it smoothly out of the port of Gocek). Hot-air ballooning I love, and so will make sure to sell it to you. Golfing I am clueless about. But if you ask, I am sure we can arrange something in that piece of turf, too. The other big thing I got myself into (up to my neck!) is the Small Hotels of Turkey. This is a loose network of charming, lovely, wonderful and unusual hotels right across the country which were hand-picked by Sevan & Mujde Nisanyan in their fabulous annual guide,     The Little Hotel Book. Sevan and Müjde are old friends of mine, so when they asked me to be the general reservation agent for all those hotels -- 168 of them at the latest count -- I coudn't say no. So if you hit the Small Hotels website, it is me again that you will sooner or later be dealing with. Is this of any interest to you? I hope it is. If we can do anything for you, please let us know. Press this button to send me an email. Please be kind enough to give as much information about your needs as you can (approximate dates of travel, how many people, any special interests or requirements, any specific facts you would like to find out about...). We will do our best to make your trip in Turkey easy, fun and unforgettable. Sevim Karabiyik