Cappadocia Short Breaks

DAY 1 : Kayseri/Nevsehir - Cappadocia Airport Transfer

Description : Your driver will meet you at the exit terminal of Kayseri or Nevsehir airport and you will transfer to your hotel. Overnight Cappadocia.

DAY 2 : Cappadocia Red [North] Tour

Description : After breakfast you will meet with your guide and drivcer at the lobby of your hotel and your tour will start with a visit to Goreme Open Air Museum where you can see the world’s most important Byzantine cave churches. Goreme Open Air Museum is listed as one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The next stop will be Pashabagi also called the Monks Valley because Christian hermits chose to locate hermit cells and churches in these three-headed pinnacles. Today’s last visit before lunch will be Devrent Valley, also known as "Imagination Valley", this is the most surreal-looking landscape. You will have lunch in Avanos in one of the cave restaurants. Avanos is the town of traditional pottery art, thus, you will visit one of the family work-shops in Avanos to have some information about the pottery and have a kick-wheel-pottery demonstration after lunch. You will end the day at Uchisar Castle, which is the highest point of Cappadocia and the view from the top is just brilliant. Overnight Cappadocia. (B - L)

DAY 3 : Cappadocia Green [South] Tour

Description : Picking up about from your hotel and your tour will start. The first stop is Goreme Panorama where you will have a complete view of Goreme valley and Goreme village: fairy chimneys, rock formations and cave houses. You will be also given the general information about Cappadocia at that first stop. Next you will drive to Derinkuyu Underground City, one of the best preserved and deepest underground cities in Cappadocia. Derinkuyu is 55 meters deep and has 8 levels open to visitors. After spending about 1 hour in Derinkuyu Underground City, you will drive to Ihlara Valley which is a 16 km long canyon and both sides are lined with rock carved churches. You will have a 3 km hike and visit one of the cave churches in Ihlara Valley. At the end of the walk, lunch will be served at Belisirma Village at a river by restaurant. After lunch you will visit Selime Monastery, carved out of the rock by Christian monks in the 13th century. The size of the church makes a visit here astonishing. The last stop of the day is a picture stop over the Pigeon Valley. Afterwards you drive back to your hotel. Overnight Cappadocia. (B - L)

DAY 4 : Cappadocia - Hattusha Tour - Ankara

Description : After breakfast you will check out from your hotel and drive to the Bogazkale Village for your Hattusha Tour. This ancient city is dating back to almost 4000 years. The site, discovered in 1834, was not comprehensively excavated until 1906, which was the memorable date of the discovery of a copy of a peace treaty between Hattushili III and the Pharaoh Ramses II, which made possible the identification of Hattusha. Since then, joint efforts on the part of German and Turkish archaeologists have made decisive progress in knowledge of the Hittite capital. In the 13th century, the city was surrounded by a system of double walls forming a perimeter of roughly 8 km. It was protected at the east end by the Kayalı Bogaz outpost, 1.5 km from the Royal Gate. To the north, beyond the walls, were located a necropolis cut into the rock at Osmankayası and the great rupestral sanctuary of Yazılıkaya, whose walls decorated with bas-reliefs are the undisputed masterpiece of Hittite art. You will also visit the Yazilikaya Open Air Sanctuary. It was the religious center of the Hittites who were known as ” the country with 1000 gods”. The most remarkable monument is the great temple, dedicated to the god of storms and the goddess of the Sun, Arinna, and surrounded by an array of buildings including stores. Thousands of cuneiform tablets were found in this area. Slightly to the north of the temple is the Assyrian settlement’s karum with its houses built around a central courtyard. Part of it dates back to the pre-Hittite period. Afterwards you drive to your hotel in Ankara. (B - L)

DAY 5 : Ankara - Airport Transfer

Description : After breakfast, you will check out from your hotel and transfer to airport of Ankara by your private car for your flight to next destination. (B) - END OF SERVICES