Daily Tour
Green Tour:
Schedule
Tour starts at 9:30 am and finishes around 6:00 p.m.
Included
Tour, tour guide, lunch and transportation
Itinerary
– The first stop is Goreme Panorama where you will have a complete view of Göreme valley and Göreme village: fairy chimneys, rock formations and cave houses. You will have also the general information about Cappadocia at that first stop.
– We will go 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, we will drive to Ihlara Valley which is a 16 km long canyon and both sides are lined with rock carved churches. We 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 we 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.
– Ending the daily tour, we return to the your hotel
Red Tour:
Schedule
Tour starts at 9:30 am and finishes around 5:00 p.m.
Included
Tour, tour guide, lunch and transportation
Itinerary
– The tour starts with a visit to Göreme 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.
– Our 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.
– The last stop before lunch will be Devrent Valley , also known as “Imagination Valley”, this is the most surreal-looking landscape. We will have lunch in Avanos in one of the cave restaurants. Avanos is the town of traditional pottery art, thus, we 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.
We will end the day at Uchisar Castle, which is the highest point of Cappadocia and the view from the top is just brilliant.
– Craft Workshop: The city of Uchisar is famous for its volcanic stones (andezita, bazaltica, tufa, etc.), stone pigeons, opsidian stone, onyx and semiprecious stones. We visit the surroundings to see how the stone turns into art and is worked with silver and gold.
– Ending the daily tour, we return to the your hotel
