Overview:

Explore unique Cappadocia with customized compact itinerary. Visit Goreme Open-Air Museum and stone houses of Ortahisar, walk through underground cities of early christians and see rock-cut churches and storage rooms, Enjoy panoramic view of the Uchisar, experience make pottery with local experts, tasty typical Turkish food in local restaurant.

Program:

According to your tour pick-up time meet with your guide and start your full-day tour. Explore Goreme Museum; consists of many rock-cut churches from the second half of 9C with beautiful colorful frescoes decorating the walls. Next, 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-storey city connected by 30km of corridors and passageways. Your tour continues with Ortahisar; famous for its friendly inhabitants, picturesque stone houses, narrow streets and lovely churches as well as the castle-like rock formation after which the town is named. Next; Uchisar the Natural highest Rock Castle provides a magnificent panorama of the surrounding area. Tour continue to Avanos Here is a small town famous for its pottery and carpets. It is built among the banks of Kızılırmak (Halys River). The longest river originating and ending within the borders of Turkey 1.355km. Its water is colored by Cappadocia’s rich deposits of clay, hence Kızılırmak, The Red River. At the end of the tour drive you back to your hotel.