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Day 1.Arrival
In the evening, you will be picked up at Kayseri Airport, followed by a transfer and check into a hotel in the center of Cappadocia.
Day 2. GETTING TO KNOW CAPPADOCIA
Pigeon Valley and the highest point of Cappadocia
From the morning of day one, we'll show you the many pigeon houses in Pigeon Valley. Most of these cave dwellings are painted white to attract birds and their valuable droppings. Hiking in the valley will take less than 1 hour, after which we will climb to the top of Cappadocia's highest fortress! After that, we will be able to visit the tasting room of one of the 2 main wineries in
Cappadocia.
Pottery town
Our next stop is a pottery town, home to many family-run pottery workshops. These famous potters make great souvenirs, and here you can buy everything from simple ashtrays and mugs to decorative plates and chess sets. We will visit one of the pottery shops and workshops, as well as the local ethnographic museum
located in an old Ottoman mansion.
We have lunch in the same town, at a restaurant that specializes in all kinds of giblet soups, and even has mutton brain soup.
Observation decks and hiking
Next are all kinds of observation decks in Cappadocia. It all looks like a sculpted zoo created by nature. Top-notch Instagram photos in each location are guaranteed to you!
In the evening, you can hike for 2-3 hours in the valleys around Goreme, and a picturesque sunset overlooking the valleys.
Day 3. OUTSKIRTS OF CAPPADOCIA
Underground city
We ask ourselves: what are the underground cities of Cappadocia? These troglodyte cave cities date back to the Hittites and expanded over the centuries as various marauding armies crossed Central Anatolia in search of captives and looting. Cappadocia has 36 underground cities, and we will visit the deepest of them. While the underground city consists of 8 floors underground, only 4 of them are open to the public
.Canyon and monastery
We will walk into a canyon with a depth of about 100 m, formed by the Melendiz River thousands of years ago. It is believed that the valley housed more than 4,000 dwellings and a hundred cave churches decorated with frescoes. It is very pleasant to walk through the valley among vineyards, poplars and pistachio trees to the quiet sound of the rushing water, surrounded by rich wildlife
We have lunch here, in the canyon itself, at a restaurant on the water.
After lunch, we will visit the monumental monastery with its cathedral, which was home to the diocese of all Cappadocia during Christian times.
Day 4. WALKING THROUGH CAPPADOCIA
The Valley of the Monks
The Pashabag Valley is home to some of the brightest “fairy chimneys” in Cappadocia, with double and even triple stone roofs. This style is unique even to Cappadocia, and these fairy chimneys are called mushroom-shaped chimneys. We will see even more bizarre figures in the Valley of Imagination on the
same day.
Open-air museum
Once home to one of the largest communities in the region, the open-air museum is an amazing cave town dotted with dwellings, religious and secular spaces.
Here we will see a cave mosque with a minaret, old examples of Cappadocian architecture and religious frescoes.
We will have lunch in Goreme at a Cappadocian national restaurant, where you can also drink local wine.
The Valley of Love and the Valley Route
We will visit both the observation deck of the Valley of Love and go down there for a series of colorful photos. In the late afternoon, the main hiking route of the tour to the Cappadocia Valleys awaits us, surrounded by bizarre geological formations and the way of life of local residents. You'll also see stunning early Christian churches hidden in the valleys
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Flight home
In the evening, transfer and fly home from Kayseri or Nevsehir (connecting in Istanbul)
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