DAILY CAPPADOCIA TOUR FROM ISTANBUL

The tour in Cappadocia runs between 09.00-17.00 and it is a regular group tour in English. The tour guides speak fluent English and licensed by The Ministry of Culture and specialized about the site.

You will be picked up from your hotel at 03:30 to be transferred to Istanbul Airport to take 06:30 flight to Kayseri. Upon your arrival at Kayseri Airport, you will be greeted and transferred to Cappadocia to meet your guide and the rest of the group. You will start the day visiting Devrent Valley, also known as “Imagination Valley”, this is the most surreal-looking landscape. Your next stop will be Pasabagi called also the Monks Valley because Christian hermits chose to locate hermit cells and churches in these three-headed pinnacles symbolic of the Holy Trinity, it’s possible to see all the stages in the formation of fairy chimneys at this spot. Proceed to Avanos (Vanessa) the pottery center of Cappadocia, this village is set on the banks of the Kizilirmak/Red River. The river gets its name from the red clay it deposits. You can watch the potters at work using kick wheels, the technique which has remained unchanged for generations. After lunch, continue to Goreme Open Air Museum. The world’s most important Byzantine cave churches are found in these once remote valleys where monks and nuns pursued monastic life from the 3rd century on. Here you can see the best preserved Byzantine cave wall paintings and frescos from the Iconoclastic period through to the end of Seljuk rule. Icons with scenes from the Old Testament and the New Testament above portraits of Church Fathers and saints depict the structure of the Byzantine universe. Panoramic view point Esentepe. With a spectacular view over Goreme from Esentepe see the complete view of Goreme valley and Goreme village: fairy chimneys, rock formations and cave houses. End your day with Uchisar Castle. This tall rock, the highest point of the Goreme region, is a 25-floor beehive of cave rooms forming an underground-type city reaching into the sky. It was used as a citadel during Roman, Byzantine and Seljuk times. The view of the Cappadocian countryside from here is just brilliant. After the tour, you will be transferred to Kayseri Airport to take 19:20 flight to Istanbul. Upon your arrival, you will be greeted and transferred to your hotel in Sultanahmet/Taksim area.

Price

320 EUR per person. The price is subject to availability of economy class flight tickets for the requested tour date. If you are a single traveller, there will be +45 EUR single supplement surcharge.

Tour Price Includes

Entrance fees to the sites visited

Lunch during the tour (except drinks)

Regular group tour in English w/ professional English speaking guide

Round trip flight tickets (economy class)

Airport transfers

Tour Price Excludes

Personal expenses

Breakfast, Dinner

Tips (optional)