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Tour Price:
200
Euro per person in single
room (1 pax)
190 Euro
per person in double room (2 pax)
180
Euro per person in triple room
(3 pax)
Above tour prices include:
All taxes.
Accommodation in private rooms at 3 star or equal quality
special class hotels
(Hotel upgrade possible, if requested)
Mentioned guided day tours with lunch.
Entrance fees for museums
All mentioned meals above in the itinerary
Transportation by non-smoking, air-conditioned long distance
buses, with Pullman seats.
All connecting transfers in between the tour period.
Possible add-ons :
Hot air balloon flight at sunrise before the tour on the 3rd
day: 180 Euro per person, hotel transfers included
Airport hotel transfers in Istanbul- 30 Euro for 1-3 pax
3* Hotel accommodation in Istanbul before or after the tour: 50
Euro single, 30 Euro double, 25 Euro triple pp.
Istanbul tours:
http://www.travelagencyturkey.com/dailytours1.html
Extra 3 * hotel in Cappadocia: 45 Euro single, 25 Euro double
pp, 20 Euro triple pp.
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A rock temple in Cappadocia |
In ancient
geography, Cappadocia or 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.
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Fairy chimneys of Goreme |
Goreme, which hide among fairy chimneys, is the heart of
Cappadocia. First period settlement within the region reaches to
Roman period from Christianity. Ortahane, Durmus Kadir, Yusuf
Koc and Bezirhane churches in Goreme, houses and shafts engraved
from rocks till to Uzundere, Bagıldere and Zemi Valley carries
the mystical side of history today.
Goreme is a wide open air museum, in which there are Fairy
Chimneys and lots of churches. Very interesting churches, which
are within one of the most important centers of Christianity,
Goreme, are under protection.
Goreme is 15 km east of Nevsehir and 5 km west of Urgup
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You will meet hidden churches
and cave houses during walking tour in valley |
Ihlara Valley 40 kilometer away from Aksaray. Valley can be
reached by turning at the 11th kilometer point of Aksaray -
Nevsehir roadway. Canyon constituted by breaks and collapses
come out with getting cold of lavas that contains dense basalt
and andesite substances and run over from Hasandag mountain. On
that split area an Melendiz brook find way to flow and give
today's shape to canyon, that brook was named in early ages 'Potamus
Kapadukus" which means river of Cappadocia. Valley lies 14
kilometer long. starts from Ihlara, come to an end at Selime.
Valley's height reach to 100 - 150 meter at some places. Across
the valley there are innumerable shelters, tombs and churches
that all engraved in to rocks present. Some of the shelters and
church's are related each other with tunnels that similar to
underground cities
Source: Ministry of tourism and Culture
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