CAPPADOCIA HIGHLIGHTS

The Land of Beautiful Horses… Cappadocia is a fairy-land which will blow your mind away with its natural formations, rock-cut churches, beautiful valleys, underground cities, deep history and more! Get ready for a wonderful day, we are going to explore what’s under and over the ground in one day.

• Göreme Viewpoint is a great spot to understand how this settlement is hidden in the nature.
• Walk down to Derinkuyu Underground City to discover amazingly well-established ancient city under the ground.
• Visit Ihlara Valley, which is one of the most known valleys in the region with a great importance especially in the Early Christianity.
• Check out Selime Monastery which is a perfect example of a rock-cut cathedral in Cappadocia.
• Enjoy the views in Pigeon Valley and take amazing pictures.

• Tour Language: English, Chinese
• Inclusions: Tour of Cappadocia with an experienced and licensed tour guide,private transportation with an air-conditioned vehicle, lunch, entry fees for Ihlara Valley, Selime Monastery and Derinkuyu Underground City.
• Duration: Full Day
• Starting Time: 9.00 am.
• Meeting Point: We will pick you up from your hotel in Cappadocia. 
• Ending Point: We will drive you back to your hotel based in Cappadocia.

•  At 9.00 am, you are going to be picked up from your hotel to start a marvelous day first with a photo stop at a panoramic view point, then we drive to an underground city (could be Kaymaklı or Derinkuyu) where people used to take shelter in an emergency during the time of a war or siege or a similar threat around. Used for a long time in different periods, the underground cities in Cappadocia are quite big complexes.
• With about an hour drive we get to Ihlara Valley formed with the help of volcano, wind and rain which had become a perfect hide-out in the early years of the Christianity. There are many churches carved into the rocks in this valley. Ihlara Valley was one of the main valleys where the Early Christians took shelter and carved rock churches along with Göreme Valley and Soğanlı Valley.
• At the end of our walk in Ihlara Valley, we have lunch at one of the local restaurants over here by the river. Then we drive to rock-cut Selime Monastery with a cathedral inside.
• On the way back to Göreme we are going to stop at Pigeon Valley for another great photo opportunity. We stop at Uçhisar Fortress from the bottom, maybe with some camels around, for our last photo stop just before we get back to Göreme.