Tour Information



Day 1: Blue Cappadocia Tour: You will be picked up from your hotel at around 03:45 to be transferred to Ataturk Airport to take 06:35 flight to Kayseri. Upon your arrival at Kayseri Airport, you will be greeted and transferred to Cappadocia to meet with your guide and the rest of the group. You will visit Devrent Imagination Valley and walk through this lunar landscape. Next, visit Zelve Open Air Museum, where you will witness houses carved into the rocks, a Seljukian mosque as well as traces of most, if not all, ancient civilizations, Pasabaglari (the world-famous Fairy Chimneys), the village of Avanos, where you will witness a Pottery-making demonstration using ancient Hittite techniques, lunch at a local cave restaurant, Uchisar Rock-Castle, (the highest point in the region, Esentepe (a panoramic view of Goreme valley) and Goreme Open Air Museum (Rock-cut churches, frescoes, monastery). After the tour, you will be dropped off at your hotel. Accommodation in Cappadocia.

 

Day 2: Green Cappadocia Tour: (check out from hotel in the morning) You will be picked up from your hotel at around 09:30, and you will visit Kaymakli Underground City (See how the people lived in this multi level city complete with stables, kitchens, storage chambers and wine making rooms), Soganli Valley (Relaxing 3km walk through the valley with Byzantine period rock tombs),Sobesos(A Roman Bath from the 5th century and mosaics and graves from Byzantine Empire Period), Taskinpasa Medresesi (an Ottoman theological school), Keslik Monastery (Churches from 8th and 12th centuries, refectory and other complexes, used by monks) and Mustafapasa (Experience the Ottoman and Greek architecture of this old Greek Village once called Sinasos). After the tour, you will be transferred to Kayseri Airport to take 19:30 flight to Istanbul. Upon your arrival at around 21:00, you will be greeted and transferred to your hotel. (breakfast at hotel, lunch on the tour)

 

Price

780 EUR per person in double/twin room. If you are a single traveller, there will be a 25% single supplement surcharge.

 

Tour Price Includes

1 night's BB accommodation at 3* or equivalent hotel

2 full-day regular group tours w/ professional guidance in English

Istanbul-Kayseri-Istanbul flight tickets

2 airport transfers in Istanbul

2 airport transfers in Cappadocia

Entrance fees to the sites visited

Lunch during the tours (except drinks)

Local transportation w/ A/C vehicles

 

Tour Price Excludes

Personal expenses

Dinner

Tips (optional)