The Green Tour takes you to the highlights of the Southern Cappadocia:
• Göreme panorama
• Derinkuyu Underground City
• Selime Monastery
• Lunch
• 3.5 km walking in Ihlara Valley
• Pigeon Valley
Tour departs at 9.30 and you will be collected from your hotel prior to departure time.
Our first stop is Esentepe, the impressive panoramic viewpoint overlooking Goreme. Here your guide will give you information about the history of Cappadocia and its unique rock formations.
There are more than 200 underground cities in Cappadocia and the deepest one is Derinkuyu underground city. These troglodyte cave-cities were excavated as early as Hittite times, and expanded by early Christians and others over the centuries, as various marauding armies traversed Central Anatolia in search of captives and plunder.
We continue on to the Selime Monastery, the largest rock-cut monastery in Cappadocia with large cave cathedral and breathtaking views over the area.
After the Lunch in Ihlara Village we go on 3,5 km walk in Ihlara Valley, which is near Mount Hasan and Mount Melendiz, two of the three volcanoes of Cappadocia. Ihlara Valley is a canyon with a depth of approximately 100m and was formed by the Melendiz River thousands of years ago. It begins at Ihlara village and ends with Selime Monastery at Selime village after making 26 bends along 14 kilometers.
It is believed that the valley housed thousands dwellings and more than hundred cave churches decorated with frescoes. Thousands people once lived in Ihlara Valley. It is very pleasant to walk through the Ihlara valley by the vineyards, poplars and pistachio trees, sound of the rushing water (Melendiz River), and surrounded by a rich wildlife of lizards, frogs, butterflies, birds and sometimes eagles and other mammals like lambs and sheep.
On our way back to Goreme, we stop at the spectacular vista point overlooking Pigeon Valley.
Red Tour takes you to Göreme open air museum, the most famous tourist attraction in Cappadocia, Paşabağ, Devrent and Honey (Love) valleys where you can admire the amazing rock formations made by nature itself.
The tour starts between 9:30 – 9:50 a.m. with a pick up service from our hotel and takes you to;
• Uchisar Panaroma
• Goreme Open Air Museum
• Love Valley
• Çavuşin Village
• Avanos
• Lunch
• Pasabag Monks Valley
• Devrent Valley
• Urgup Fairy Chimneys
• Return back to Hotel
and finishes about 4:30 p.m. at our hotel again. It is included on the tour;
Pick up and drop off to our hotel
Transportations in a AC minivan
Entry Fees to the museums and sights listes in the itinerary
Professional, licensed and experienced local guide
Lunch
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