CAPPADOCIA TOUR FROM ISTANBUL
BY BUS
Budget package tours from reputable travel agency of Turkey This package tour is available departing from Istanbul
everyday.
DAY 1 : ISTANBUL – CAPPADOCIA
This tour package will start with an
overnight bus ride to Cappadocia by luxury, air-conditioned
coach. Bus ride is especially recommended for people who also want
to see the great land panorama of Turkey on the way. Besides this
will save you from the cost of 1 night hotel accommodation. The
buses are non-smoking air-conditioned and have Pullman seats
suitable for sleeping. There will be several stop-over points at
some highway cafe-restaurants during the journey for toilet needs
or for those who would like to eat or drink a cup of coffee
Overnight bus to Cappadocia. Departure at around 19.30 o'clock
from a point near our office in Sultanahmet.
The departure time may change slightly depending on season but you
will be informed of exact departure time after you your
reservation is completed.
Amazing rock formations
Frescoes in a church
Cave house accommodations
DAY 2 : CAPPADOCIA
Cappadocia balloon flights
make you feel like flying over the moon
Your bus will arrive to Cappadocia next day
early in the morning.
You will be transferred to your hotel. After you settle up at
your hotel and rest a little you will be picked up from your
hotel for the below tour:
Full day Northern Cappadocia tour including transfers,
guide and entrance fee. This tour will cover the most famous
parts of the region such as Goreme Open Air Museum, Zelve,
Urgup and Dervent Valley. Lunch will be served during the tour in a nice Turkish
Restaurant.
Transfer back to hotel. Dinner at your hotel included. Hotel accommodation
in Cappadocia. Private rooms with air condition and bath/WC.
Possible hotels are Dedeli Cave or Hisarevi hotels
in Urgup. If they are not available similar quality and location
hotels will be reserved.
DAY 3 : CAPPADOCIA – ISTANBUL
One
day is never enough to see the wonders of the vast
Cappadocia region. You have so many things more to see on
your second day that will keep your eyes wide open with
amazement.
The second day's itinerary will be like this:
Breakfast in your hotel included Full day Southern Cappadocia Tour
including transfers, entrance
fees, guide This tour will cover Underground city of Derinkuyu or
Kaymakli, wonderful Ihlara Valley as well as a
caravanserai of Seljuk period, which is the great
Turkish Empire before Ottomans. Lunch in a typical Turkish Restaurant during the day
tour.
Transfer to bus station Overnight bus
to Istanbul. (Non-smoking new model long distance coaches
with air-condition and Pullman seats suitable for sleeping) End of our service with your arrival to the main bus
station in Istanbul, next day at around 7:30 am. Extra transfer from bus station to your hotel in
Istanbul, 30 Euro for
1-3 pax
PRICING
Tour Pricing: 200
Euro per personin single room (for 1 pax) 190 Euro
per person in double room (for 2 pax) 180
Euro per person in triple room(for 3 pax)
Above tour prices include:
All taxes. Various surcharges may apply for credit card
payments, of which you will be informed in advance.
Accommodation in private rooms at 3 star or equal quality
special class/boutique 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 flexible seats suitable for sleeping
All connecting transfers in between the tour period.
Payment and reservation:
Depending on season we will request 20-30% of the total tour price for
guaranteed reservations. We will send you a detailed
reservation contract by e-mail after all details are
confirmed mutually.
For advance payments we accept Visa and Master and
American express credit cards by mail order method or money
transfer. The balance of payment can also be made in cash in
Euros or in other internationally accepted currencies from
the cross exchange rates valid on payment day.
CAPPADOCIA
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.
GOREME
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
IHLARA VALLEY
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
