Price 40 Euro per person
Includes
* Entrance fees to the ancient sites & museums
* Pick up and drop off to the hotel
* Professional English speaking tour guides
* Lunch
Itinerary
Around 09:00 you will be picked up from your
hotel and you will visit the norther part of Cappadocia, on the northern part you will visit, open air museums, valleys, fairy chimneys and the other sites in the area after the tour we can eighter transfer you back to your hotel or drop you off at the Down town
17:00 Approx.. time for the tour ending.
* Underground City of Derinkuyu --You will gradually stroll your way down into the depths of the earth in this ancient underground city that has 18-20 floors as deep as 40 meters below the ground. Don't worry, you will only go down to the 8th floor. Cappadocia has around 36 underground cities. Archaeologists date these back to the time of the Hittites which lived 4000 years ago. Others believe they were inhabited around the 7th century BC.....Regardless of how old or young they are, undoubtedly they will leave you with a sense of awe of how the dwellers of these cities lived. As you wind down you will begin to feel as if you are in a huge block of Swiss cheese. Everywhere you look there will be nooks and crannies carved into the rocks: holes, windows , paths, alleys, little rooms. . . it is really a maze of mass proportions. You will see ancient kitchens and stables; storage jars for oil, wine and water; rock carved tables, chairs, and beds; and deep wells for water supplies. You will be amazed at the elaborate ancient ventilation system in place. These cities were fortified and prepared for it's inhabitants to hide out for months from attackers, especially during the Arab invasions. During Christian times the hiding worshippers even built little chapels that you can still see.
* Traditional Anatolian village --The head-scarfed women out at work in the fields from sun up until sun-down, and the mustached, vest-wearing men hard at work playing cards in the coffee shops. You will get time to stroll in such a village and see the average Turkish villager at work...or play.
>Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner provided<overnight in URGUP
Ihlara Valley : The Ihlara Valley is a 16 km long gorge cut into volcanic rock in the southern part of Cappadocia, following several eruptions of Mount Erciyas. Through they valley flows the stream Melendiz Suyu. What is unique about this valley is the ancient history of its inhabitants. The whole canyon is honeycombed with rock-cut underground dwellings and churches from the Byzantine period.
After the tour we will transfer you back to your hotels |