TÜRSAB-licensed Turkish travel agency · online since 2012
Türkiye, shown to you by the people who live here.
Private tours of Ephesus, Istanbul, Cappadocia and the Seven Churches, planned and guided by licensed local guides.
- TÜRSAB 15746
- 20+ years in tourism
- 11 specialist websites
What we are
A Turkish travel agency run by its own guides
141 Journeys is a TÜRSAB-licensed Turkish travel agency and the family of eleven specialist travel websites behind it.
Private tours of Ephesus, Istanbul, Cappadocia and the Seven Churches of Revelation are planned and guided by licensed local guides with more than twenty years in Turkish tourism, with skip-the-line entry at every site we visit. Every tour is operated by Gezginol Tours, TÜRSAB license 15746, in Kuşadası.
Most travel companies run one website and try to be everything to everybody. We did the opposite. Each of our sites covers a single subject in the kind of depth only a guide who works there can manage — and every tour behind them is operated by the same TÜRSAB-licensed agency, to the same standard.
So whether you found us looking for a cruise excursion from Kuşadası, a pilgrimage across the Seven Churches, or una excursión a Éfeso en español, you reach the same family of guides.
- 20+years in Turkish tourism
- 11specialist websites
- 840+pages of free guides
- 2012our first website of our own
The family
Our Eleven Travel Websites
Nine of our eleven domains date from 2012–2014, and the oldest, infoephesus.com, first went online in 2002. Pick the one that matches your journey — the same family of guides answers on all of them.
Ephesus & the Aegean
Our home ground-
37 pagesSince 2014Ephesus by Locals
ephesusbylocals.comHire a licensed guide by the day. -
114 pagesSince 2014Ephesus Tours by Locals
ephesustoursbylocals.comPrivate Ephesus tours & shore excursions. -
107 pagesSince 2012Biblical Ephesus Tours
biblicalephesustours.comSt Paul, St John, the Virgin Mary. -
41 pagesSince 2013Seven Churches of the Apocalypse
sevenchurchesofapocalypse.comRevelation’s seven churches, Ephesus to Laodicea. -
122 pagesSince 2012The Ephesus
theephesus.comThe Ephesus knowledge base. -
72 pagesInfo Ephesus
infoephesus.comKuşadası cruise-port guide to Ephesus, first online in 2002.Since 2002 · our oldest website
Beyond the Aegean
The rest of Türkiye
En Español
Written natively in Spanish
The oldest website in our family: infoephesus.com, online since 2002.
See what each website coversWhat a day with a local guide looks like
Real days, real places: the gate where most of our Ephesus tours begin, the tables we stop at, and the mornings people travel for.
The Upper Gate, Ephesus. Most of our Ephesus tours start here. We buy your tickets in advance, so you walk past the ticket queue. 
Breakfast, Aegean style. Menemen in a copper pan, honey on the comb, sucuk and eggs. 
Balloon morning, Cappadocia. Crews, burners and travelers on a launch field at first light. 
Meze. The Turkish way to start dinner: a table of small plates and no hurry. 
Under the pines, Ephesus. The shaded path past the Great Theater toward the Lower Gate, where most groups finish.
Our websites, from the oldest to the newest
- 2002
infoephesus.com goes online, one of the earliest websites about Ephesus.
- 2012
Our first websites of our own: Biblical Ephesus Tours and The Ephesus.
- 2013
Seven Churches of the Apocalypse maps the seven churches of Revelation.
- 2014
Six more websites, including Istanbul and our three Spanish sites.
- 2026
Cappadocia Tours by Locals launches, our newest destination.
Why book direct
Straight to a working guide.
You talk to the guide
Write to us and a working guide answers — the same person who knows the site, the season and the timings, usually within a few hours.
Licensed and accountable
Every tour runs under TÜRSAB license 15746. Turkish law requires that license to sell tours, and you can check ours on the registry in a minute.
Private by default
Our tours are private. Your group, your guide, your pace — and nothing on the day that you did not choose yourself. Any group size, too: 1 to 52 people in one coach, and several guides and coaches for larger groups.
Frequently asked
Who are 141 Journeys?
We are a family of Turkish local guides and the eleven travel websites we write. Every tour booked through any of those sites is operated by Gezginol Tours, a travel agency licensed by TÜRSAB (the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies) under registry number 15746, based in Kuşadası beside ancient Ephesus.
Why do you have eleven different websites instead of one?
Because a guide who has spent twenty years walking Ephesus knows things a general Turkey website will never bother to write down. Each site covers one subject in real depth — one covers only Ephesus, one only the Seven Churches of Revelation, one only cruise passengers at the port of Kuşadası, three are written natively in Spanish. Together they hold more than 800 pages of free guides. The tours behind all of them are run by the same licensed agency.
Is 141 Journeys a licensed travel agency?
Yes. Tours are operated under Gezginol Turizm ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi, TÜRSAB registry number 15746. TÜRSAB licensing is a legal requirement for selling tours in Türkiye and means the agency is registered, insured and accountable. You can check any registry number on the TÜRSAB website.
How long have you been doing this?
The people behind these websites have worked in Turkish tourism for more than twenty years. The 141 Journeys name is newer, but the websites are not: nine of our eleven domains date from 2012–2014, and the first of our own went live in 2012. The oldest website in the family, infoephesus.com, first went online in 2002. Nearly 25 years after it first went online, we are its proud owners and run it today.
How do I book a tour?
Pick the website that matches your journey — they each have their own booking form — or write to us here at info@141journeys.com and we will point you to the right guide. A person answers, usually within a few hours.
Reviews: one Google profile for the whole family is being set up. Until it is live, the TÜRSAB registry link above is the quickest way to check us.
Not sure which website is yours?
Tell us the dates, the port or hotel you are starting from, and how many of you there are. We will point you at the right guide on the right website.
TÜRSAB 15746 · no prepayment, no obligation