Highlights:
-Discover Cappadocia in unique, persoanl way
-Explore the underground cities and see rock-cut churches and storage rooms
-See Selime Monastery, Selime Village
-Experience make potter with locals
-Enjoy typical Turkish Food on melendiz river
Overview:
Enjoy a Full-Day private tour to top-visited places of Cappadocia. Visit Ihlara Valley; once housed more than four thousand dwellings and a hundred cave churches decorated with frescoes. Enjoy the typical Turkish food in one of the famoust Belisirma’s restaurant on melendiz river with their low seated tables just a foot or two above the running water, See Selime Monastery; the largest and most majestic of the many rock-cut religious building in the Cappadocia region, visit underground cities of early christians and see rock-cut churches and storage rooms.
Program:
According to your tour pick-up time meet with your guide and start your full-day tour. Explore Underground Cities; Once a place of refuge for 15000 Christians, these settlements were of enormous value to the development of Christianity as they provided shelter and worship and were in use until the end of 7C AD. Witness the ancient bedrooms, church, meeting hall and food storage rooms in this eight-story city connected by 30km of corridors and passageways. Next; Ihlara Valley; is a deep and narrow river gorge cut by the Melendiz River. The Valley is 20km long and approx. 150 m deep. It is a great trekking route to those who enjoy trekking. There are about 60 churches, monasteries and cells of anchorites in it. Belisirma; enjoy the Lunch at the local restaurant on the Melendez River. Next Selime; with hollowed out citadel and churches where fairy chimneys rest on the steep hillside. Selime Monastery, the largest and most majestic of the many rock-cut religious building in the Cappadocia region, while at the southern end is Ihlara village, 7 kilometres away. At the end of the tour drive you back to your hotel.