TOUR 1 : GOREME OPEN AIR MUSEUM AND OTHER SIGHTS

 

Fairy chimneys of Goreme

Depart from your hotel for a tour to one of the most amazing parts of Cappadocia. On this full day tour you will visit: Devrent Valley, Zelve Open-air Museum, Monks Valley (Pasabagi) where you will see the world-famous fairy chimneys. Break for lunch in Avanos and then continue on to the Goreme Open-air Museum where you will visit the numerous churches and monasteries. Depart for a panoramic view of Esentepe and then move on to Uchisar's natural rock castle.

Pick up and drop off at your hotel is included in the tour.
Price: 45 Euro per person, including transfer from/to hotels, guide, entrance fees and lunch



 

TOUR 2 : KAYMAKLI UNDERGROUND CITY & OTHER SIGHTS

TOUR 3 : IHLARA VALLEY AND OTHER SIGHTS

Amazing rock formations	Frescoes in a church	Cave house accommodations

Depart from your hotel for a tour to visit the famous Derinkuyu Underground City. Afterwards hike through the green Ihlara Valley along the steam visiting some of the churches along the way. Stop in Belisirma for lunch and then go on to Selime for a panoramic view. A stop at the Agzikarahan Caravanserai is also included.
Pick up and drop off at your hotel is included in the tour.
Price: 45 Euro per person, including transfer from/to hotels, guide, entrance fees and lunch


 

TOUR 4 : KESLIK MONASTERIES AND OTHER SIGHTS

TOUR 5 : CAPPADOCIA BALLOON TOURS

Hot Air Balloon Tours in Cappadocia:
Without any doubt, the most exciting way to view the dramatic scenery of this unique area is from a hot air balloon. You will be picked up from your hotel just before sunrise and taken to the take–off site to watch the preparations for the departure. The flight itself lasts a little over 1 hour, during that time you will fly at varying heights allowing you a panoramic view of the landscape spread out beneath you, as well as a close-up view of the area from above. After landing you can celebrate this unique experience with a drink before returning to your hotel for breakfast.

A hot-air balloon flight is unique from all other experiences of flight as there is no sensation of motion. Travelling at heights of up to 1500 feet, the feeling is one of peace and tranquility. The earth slowly descends and rotates below you. Within moments after lifting off you become at ease while you effortlessly drift over the treetops and the spectacular Cappadocian landscape.

The deep canyons and lush fertile valleys of Cappadocia provide our balloons with an ideal playground for a unique and memorable flight; gentle winds carry us over places that could never be reached except by balloon. Ballooning can be such fun! In season we can even pick apricots from the trees!

Balloons are designed to carry between 6 and 16 passengers. All hot air balloons consist of a burner system, a basket and an envelope. The differences are in the shape and size of the envelope, the deflation system, the basket shape and design and the configuration, design, and number of burners.

We are cooperating with the most experienced ballooning company in Turkey which has almost 45 years of combined ballooning experience, maintaining a perfect safety record. The fleet of luxury aircraft are the newest, safest and most comfortable balloons available. The insurance coverage and safety standards are even more than required by Turkish, European and American regulations

Attention: Hot Air Balloon tours are usually organized all year round but they can be cancelled on windy days, and very rough weather conditions.

Tour Time: Balloon tour takes about 2 hours from hotel pick up till return, including flight time, hotel transfers, presentation and preparation for the flight. The flight itself lasts a little over 1 hour.

Price : 140 EURO per person. Further discount will be offer for participants more than 3 people.
Price includes 2 way transfers between hotels and flight area, Champaign offer for participants, flight certificate for each attendant.


 

CAPPADOCIA

In ancient geography, Cappadocia (Turkish: Kapadokya) was the name of the extensive inland district of Asia Minor (modern Turkey).

Cappadocian region is the place where nature and history come together most beautifully within the world. While geographic events are forming Peribacalari (fairy chimneys), during the historical period, humans had carried the signs of thousand years old civilizations with carving houses and churches within these earth pillars and decorating them with frisks.

Cappadocia contains several underground cities, largely used by early Christians as hiding places before they became a legitimate religion. The Cappadocian Fathers of the fourth century were integral to much of early Christian philosophy. It also produced, among other people, another Patriarch of Constantinople, John of Cappadocia who held office 517–520. For most of the Byzantine era it remained relatively undisturbed by the conflicts in the area, first with the Sassanid Empire and later against the Islamic expansion led by Arabs.

The area is a world famous and popular tourist destination, as it has many areas with unique geological, historic and cultural features.

The region is southwest of the major city Kayseri, which has airline and railroad service to Ankara and Istanbul.

The Cappadocia region is largely underlain by sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams, and ignimbrite deposits erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately 9 to 3 million years ago (late Miocene to Pliocene epochs). The rocks of Cappadocia near Goreme eroded into hundreds of spectacular pillars and minaret-like forms. The volcanic deposits are soft rocks that the people of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out to form houses, churches, monasteries. Goreme became a monastic center between 300-1200 AD. First period settlement in Goreme reaches to the Roman period from Christianity. Yusuf Koc, Ortahane, Durmus Kadir and Bezirhane churches in Goreme, houses and churches carved into rocks till to Uzun Dere, Baglidere and Zemi Valley carries the mystical side of history today. The Goreme Open Air Museum is the most visited site of the monastic communities in Cappadocia and is one of the most famous sites in central Turkey. It is a complex comprising more than 30 rock-carved churches and chapels containing some superb frescoes, dating from the 9th to the 11th centuries.