Highlights of Cappadocia Tour - 2 Days
With this 2 Day / 1 Night tour, you will be visiting the highlights of Cappadocia.
Day 1
We take the morning flight to Cappadocia. On our arrival to Cappadocia Airport, our guide and driver meet us. Our tour starts with an introduction to Cappadocia’s geology at Devrent Valley where we take a short walk down the hill and then a short drive will take us Zelve Open Air Museum. Zelve is one of the earliest inhabited valleys of Cappadocia and served as shelter to early civilizations, a monastery to early Christians, finally a village to Turkish communities until it was announced as a national park in mid-20th century. Zelve walks us through a time capsule to understand more about Cappadocia’s geology, history and culture. Next, we visit Pasabag, a.k.a. the Valley of the Monks where we will see the largest and most dense area of rock formations used by Christian monks during the medieval ages. After enjoying lunch at a local restaurant in Avanos, the center of artisanal terra cotta work, we will be visiting an artisan’s workshop to see this Anatolian art that goes back thousands of years. In the afternoon, we will drive to the nearby Sarihan Caravanserai to see an 800-year-old caravanserai where the merchants of the old trade routes used to lodge. Goreme Open Air Museum is located in the middle of a medieval Christian monastery and the rock cut churches with colorful frescoes here are some of the finest examples of Byzantine Christian Art. Our visit includes the Dark Church which has been restored exquisitely. After this, we drive to our hotel. Overnight in Cappadocia.
- Lunch
Day 2
After a pleasant hour’s drive through villages and valleys, we will explore a number of rock cut churches spread over a beautiful valley and take a short hike at Soganli. We will then start making our way back, stopping first at Sobessos to see Roman mosaics, then at Keslik, to see a monastery hidden in one of the valleys, then we arrive at Mustafapasa. Mustafapasa was heavily populated with Greeks before the population exchange of 1923. We will explore the village together and see traces of Greek architecture throughout before we enjoy a home cooked meal. Kaymakli is our next stop to explore an underground city, and our guide will tell us the story of why and how underground cities were carved. After this experience, we drive to Uchisar and hike up to the top of the so-called Castle, the largest rock formation in Cappadocia that will give us enough height to see the region from one end to the other. After this, we are transferred to Cappadocia Airport for the evening flight to Istanbul.
- Breakfast
- Lunch
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This is a private tour and the departure date can be any day.
- 2 people 860 USD per person
- 3 people 675 USD per person
- 4 people 580 USD per person
- 5-6 people 530 USD per person
- 7-9 people 460 USD per person
- 10-12 people 410 USD per person
Included services
- Accommodation at a high quality cave hotel including breakfast
- Transportation with an A/C luxury minivan
- Professional guiding
- A la carte lunches with soft drinks
- Admission fees to the museums and sights
- Taxes
Excluded services
- Domestic flights
- Dinners
- Customary gratuities
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