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Christmas, New Year and Gifting in Turkey
Worth being straight about the calendar. Christmas is not a public holiday in Turkey and is not widely celebrated outside expat and Christian communities. What is celebrated, and celebrated properly, is New Year. Yılbaşı brings decorated trees, lights, family meals and gift-giving in the final days of December, which is the same window and largely the same gifting occasion.
So this page serves three people equally well: someone buying for an expat or a Christian family in Ankara, someone sending a gift from abroad to a friend or relative in Turkey over the holidays, and someone buying a New Year gift where the tradition is strongest. The voucher does not care which of those it is.
The case for an experience over an object is well documented. In "A Wonderful Life" (Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2015), Cornell psychologist Thomas Gilovich with Amit Kumar and Lily Jampol found people take more lasting satisfaction from experiences than from material things. Across four experiments with 1,788 participants, Cindy Chan and Cassie Mogilner (Journal of Consumer Research, 2017) found experience gifts strengthen the relationship between giver and recipient more than material gifts do.
Ankara Experiences Worth Gifting
The Ankara catalog splits cleanly into approachable half-day activities and serious guided history tours.
Food. Turkish cuisine cooking classes hosted in a local home, and homemade baklava sessions with a local cook. These are the most giftable options in the city and the easiest to recommend.
The city itself. Guided highlights walking tours of Ankara, and half-day private tours for a first proper look at the capital.
Ancient Anatolia. Private tours of the Hittite sites, including Hattusas, Yazılıkaya and Alacahöyük, plus full-day Boğazköy trips. These are specialist, guided and priced accordingly.
Cappadocia. Day trips and longer private tours out to Cappadocia and central Anatolia, which is the region most visitors actually want to see.
A practical note: much of the Ankara catalog is private guided touring, which sits at the higher end. The cooking classes and walking tours are the ones that work as a standard gift.
Turkey Christmas Gifts by Destination
Istanbul experiences for the largest catalog in the country by some distance.
Cappadocia experiences for balloons, valleys and cave hotels.
Turkish Riviera Christmas gifts and Aegean Coast Christmas gifts for the coast.
Kars experiences for the northeast and the winter route.
Sending a Gift to Someone in Turkey
This is the strongest reason to choose a voucher here. Posting a physical present to Turkey means shipping cost, customs and a delivery date you cannot control. An eVoucher is emailed within minutes of purchase, in English, with a personal message attached, and the recipient books directly with the local operator.
A Tinggly gift card works the same way if you would rather not choose a tier. All prices on this page are shown in US dollars.
Choosing the Gift Box
Merry Christmas box: the standard seasonal gift box.
Fun Together box: for two people, which suits the cooking classes.
Happy Holiday box: a broad end-of-year option that reads well for New Year gifting too.
Bucketlist box: the tier that reaches the Cappadocia trips.
Once in a Lifetime box: for the private guided tours at the top of the range.
Who You Are Buying For
A couple: gifts for couples pairs well with a cooking class or a Cappadocia trip.
Parents or relatives abroad: gifts for mom and gifts for dad.
A friend who has moved to Turkey: the voucher works across 100+ countries, so it stays useful if they move again.
Someone with a trip planned: they redeem while they are there instead of carrying a gift home.
For food-led ideas specifically, the food and drink and classes and workshops categories are the right starting point.
What It Costs
Prices are in US dollars. Walking tours and baklava sessions sit at the lower end. Cooking classes and half-day city tours occupy the middle. Private Hittite site tours and full-day Cappadocia trips are considerably higher, and are usually bought as a joint gift.
If you are working to a figure, Christmas gifts under $100 covers the approachable end and Christmas gifts under $300 covers most of the rest. The Christmas gifts hub spans every recipient and budget.
No Expiry, Which Matters More Here
Ankara sits high on the Anatolian plateau and gets a genuine winter. Several of the best trips, particularly the archaeological sites and the longer Cappadocia routes, are far better in spring or autumn than in late December.
Because the voucher has no expiry date, a gift given at the end of December can simply be booked for April. Exchanges between experiences are free, so a city tour can become a Cappadocia trip if plans change. The how Tinggly works page runs through it.
Gifting That's Kind to the Planet
An experience gift box means nothing shipped internationally and nothing to dispose of afterwards. Tinggly is a member of 1% for the Planet, plants trees with every gift through its Veritree partnership, and ships in recyclable, plastic-free packaging. Backed by a 4.3/5 Trustpilot rating from more than 1,276 reviews (June 2026), it is a gift you can give with confidence. As our tagline goes: give stories, not stuff.
Ankara Christmas Experience Gift FAQs
Do people celebrate Christmas in Ankara?
Christmas is not a public holiday in Turkey and is mainly marked within expat and Christian communities. New Year is the widely celebrated occasion, with trees, lights and gift-giving in late December, so an end-of-year experience gift fits either way.
What are good experience gifts in Ankara?
Turkish cooking classes in a local home and baklava-making sessions are the most giftable options, followed by guided walking tours of the city. For a larger gift, private tours of the Hittite sites or a Cappadocia day trip are the headline choices.
Can I send an experience gift to someone in Turkey from abroad?
Yes, and it avoids the usual problems. The eVoucher is emailed within minutes, so there is no shipping, no customs and no delivery deadline. The recipient books directly with the local provider.
What currency is it priced in?
Prices on this page are shown in US dollars. The voucher covers the value of the experience, and the recipient sees local pricing when they book, so there is nothing further for them to pay.
Are the experiences run in English?
Booking is in English, and many Ankara operators run tours in English, particularly the guided history tours aimed at international visitors. Language is listed on each experience, so check before booking.
Do the vouchers expire?
No. There is no expiry date, which is useful here because the archaeological tours and Cappadocia trips are better in spring and autumn than in the middle of an Anatolian winter. Exchanges between experiences are free.
Can the gift be used outside Ankara?
Yes. It can be redeemed against any of 150,000+ experiences in 100+ countries, so the recipient can use it in Istanbul, Cappadocia, on the coast, or anywhere else they travel.
How much should I spend?
Walking tours and baklava classes sit at the lower end, cooking classes and half-day tours in the middle, and private guided or Cappadocia tours considerably higher. Group gifting is the normal route for the larger tours.
How does the recipient redeem it?
They visit the redeem page, enter their voucher code, browse what is available near them and book a date directly. The process is self-service and entirely online.