Enjoy the amazing landscape of Cappadocia with a small group day tour in Cappadocia. You will visit the Goreme Open Air Museum, Pasabaglari (Monks Valley), Fairy Chimneys, Cavusin Village, Kaymakli Underground City, Pigeon Valley and Avanos with our highlights of Cappadocia tour
Lunch, Transportations, local tour guide, hotel pick-up & drop-off and entrance fees included.
Highlights of Cappadocia Tour Details:
Once you have been picked up right from your hotel, the tour will start at 09:30 am with the visit to the most important place in Cappadocia Region by the local tour guide. Our first point will be Goreme Open Air Museum. Open Air Museum has been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985. You will see the best-preserved rock-cut churches in the museum. We continue to visit Cavusin Village where Greek and Turkish people lived together until 1924. You will see an old Greek and Turkish village with our guide, which was inhabited until 1950’s and then moved by the government to a new place because of rock falling from the old village. After the visiting Cavusin, we continue to drive to Pasabaglari. You’ll then visit Pasabaglari (Monks Valley) with the best-preserved fairy chimneys in the Cappadocia region. The fairy chimneys in this valley are the best examples in Cappadocia area and they are also called as “mushroom fairy chimneys”.
Our lunch will be at the local restaurant. Then, we will visit the Avanos town and you will have the kick-wheel pottery demo which has been an art practiced for about 4000 years. Beginning with the Hittites, this hand art became the most important cultural heritage of the Avanos town. Continue to drive to our next stop Kaymakli Underground City, which is also one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Cappadocia region. After experiencing the life in the Kaymakli underground city, we will continue to drive to Pigeon Valley to see Uchisar Natural Castle and the valley from a panoramic point.
End of the highlights of Cappadocia tour, return back to your hotel around 17:00 pm.
