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 daily


 

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 : 155 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.


 

TOUR 6 : CAPPADOCIA WHIRLING DERVISHES (SUFI) CERENOMY

Sema Ceremony of Whirling Sufi Dervishes in Cappadocia
Sema (Whirling dervishes ceremony), is the inspiration of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi (1207 - 1273) as well as part of the Turkish culture, belief and history in Konya. It symbolizes the different meanings of a mystic cycle to perfection (Ascension - Mirac).

Contemporary science definitely confirms that the fundamental condition of our existence is to revolve. There is no object, no being which does not revolve. Every thing whirls and man, a whirling dervish, carries on his life, his very existence by means of the revolution in the atoms, structural elements in his body, by the circulation of his blood, by his coming from the Earth and return to it, by his revolving with the Earth itself.

The Sema (whirling dervishes) ceremony represents all a mystical journey of man's spiritual ascent through love, finding the truth and arriving to the "Perfect". Then he returns from this spiritual journeys as a man who reached maturity and a greater perfection, so as to love and to be of service to the whole creation, to all creatures without discriminating in regard to belief, class, or race.

The dervish with his hat (his ego's tombstone), and his white skirt (his ego's shroud) is spiritually born to the truth. When he removes his black cloak, he journeys and advances to the spiritual maturity through the stages of the Sema. At the beginning and each stage of the Sema holding his arms crosswise he represents number one, and testifies to God's unity.

While whirling his arms are open, his right hand directed to the sky ready to receive God's beneficence, gazing his left hand turned toward the earth for giving what he received to poor, he turns from right to left, pivoting around the heart. This is his way of conveying God's spiritual gift to the people upon whom God "looks with a Divine" watchfulness. Revolving around the heart, from right to left, he embraces all of humankind, all the creation with affection and love.

Whirling Show Tour details:

Location: Avanos
Duration: 45 Min (19:30 to 20:15)
Price: 35 Euro per person for 1-2 people, 30 Euro per person for 3 people and more.
Run: Everyday

What's Included:
* Pick up and drop off at your hotel
* Professional guide licensed by the Ministry of Tourism
* Local taxes

Please take note of the following:
* No drinks or food is served on this tour
* 30% discount for children below the age 7, free for the ages 0-2


 

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.