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A balloon ride makes 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
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Tour Price:
345 Euro per person
in single room (1 pax)
300 Euro
per person in double room (2 pax)
280 Euro
per person in triple room (3 pax)
% 7
winter discount from November 01-March
31, except Christmas period (December 23-January 03)
Ask for group discount for participants over 7 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
2 way transportation by plane between Istanbul and Cappadocia (Kayseri).
All connecting transfers in between the tour period, as mentioned
Possible add-ons :
Hot Air Balloon Tour in Cappadocia at Sunrise before the day
tour on the 2nd day: 160 Euro discounted price
Airport hotel transfers for your international flights in
Istanbul- 30 Euro for 1-3 pariticipants
3* Hotel accommodation in Istanbul before or after the tour: 50 Euro
single, 30 Euro double, 25 Euro triple pp.
Istanbul Daily City Tours (Private or Group Tours)
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 |
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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