CAPPADOCIA TOUR BY PLANE FROM
ISTANBUL
Budget package tours from reputable travel agency of Turkey This package tour is available departing from Istanbul
everyday.
DAY 1 : ISTANBUL – CAPPADOCIA
Tour starts early morning with an approximately 1 hour flight to
Kayseri Airport near Cappadocia region. Transfer
from your hotel in Istanbul to Ataturk Airport early in the morning
Flight from Istanbul to Kayseri Airport. 1 hour flight Transfer and check in to your hotel before the 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. Hotel Upgrade is possible upon request.
Amazing rock formations
Frescoes in a church
Cave house accommodations
DAY 2 : CAPPADOCIA
Cappadocia balloon flights
make you feel like flying over the moon
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 Kayseri Airport after the tour. Evening flight
to Istanbul. End of our service with your arrival to Ataturk airport in
Istanbul
Extra transfer to your hotel in Istanbul, 30 Euro
for 1-3 pax
TOUR PRICE
Summer Rates
(April 01-October 31) 410 Euro
per personin single room
(1 pax) 370 Euro
per person in double room (2 pax) 350 Euro
per person in triple room (3 pax)
Winter
Rates (November 01-March 31
- except December 23-January 03 Christmas period) 360 Euro
per personin single room
(1 pax) 320 Euro
per person in double room (2 pax) 310 Euro
per person in triple room (3 pax)
Attention ! * Itinerary can be changed/customized because of flight
availabilities.
* Occasionally, higher prices may apply based on flight
costs, especially on special days or weekends. Early
reservation is highly recommended to secure these prices. *
Ask for group discount for participants over 7 pax
Above tour prices include:
All taxes. (Various surcharges apply for credit card
payments about which you will be informed in advance)
Half-Board 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
2 way domestic flight tickets as mentioned in the itinerary.
All connecting transfers in between the tour period.
Payment and reservation:
Depending on season we will request 25-30% 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. After you arrive in Istanbul 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
