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From Göreme: Salt Lake Tour at Sunset

1. From Göreme: Salt Lake Tour at Sunset

Kick things off when you’re picked up from your hotel in Cappadocia, 3.5 hours before sunset. After being comfortably transported for 2 hours in an air-conditioned vehicle, arrive at the stunning Tuz Golu salt lake. Enjoy ample time to roam the shores and discover the purity of this unique location, admiring salt rocks and vibrant hues of pink and orange reflecting off pristine waters. Take advantage of great photo opportunities and, if weather permits, take a refreshing dip in the lake before being transported back to your hotel.

From Goreme: Highlights of Cappadocia Private Guided Tour

2. From Goreme: Highlights of Cappadocia Private Guided Tour

You will be picked up from your hotel at the time you mentioned. Visit Paşabağı to see the naturally formed rock fomations called Fairy Chimneys. (65 lira per person) Then visit Devrent (Imagination) Valley to see natural rock formations looking like animals such as camel, shark, penguin. Drive to Özkonak underground city which takes you underground to see the caves connected to eachother by narrow tunnels. (50 lira per person) Visit one of the Pottery workshops in Avanos (where the Redriver is) to see the demonstration on a kick-wheel stand to make clay pots. You can also try how to make pot and possible to buy products if interested. You will also visit Göreme Open Air Museum to see the rock-carved churches with frescoes inside from 11-13th centuries. (150 lira per person) Next stop is Uçhisar Castle Panorama to see the castle, the highest rock in Cappadocia, and the caves around it. Then drive to Pigeon Valley to see 4km long valley with pigeon houses carved on the slopes. Last stop will be Onyx and jewelry workshop to see local volcanic stones of Turkey such as onyx, turquise, sultanite. You can also buy products with certificate, if interested. The tour does not include lunch, but you can ask the tour guide to go to a restaurant depending on what you want to eat. The order of the places you visit may change depending of the location of your hotel.

Cappadocia: Private Guided Sightseeing Tour

3. Cappadocia: Private Guided Sightseeing Tour

Set out on your day-long adventure with a morning pick-up from your hotel and make your way to the Kaymakli Underground City. Learn about the fascinating history of this UNESCO World Heritage Site as you explore its tunnels and rooms. Continue to another of Cappadocia's remarkable attractions, the Goreme Open-Air Museum. Discover the rock-cut churches, each one decorated with frescoes and paintings dating back to the 12th and 13th centuries. Visit the Dark Church, Cappadocia's most famous cave church, and see the bright, well-preserved paintings that adorn its walls.

Cappadocia Heritage 1 Day Private Tour

4. Cappadocia Heritage 1 Day Private Tour

Meet our guide and driver at Kayseri or Nevsehir airport. First meeting with Cappadocia, we introduce you to the lunar landscape of Cappadocia at Devrent Valley, take a walk through this lunar landscape where different rock formations can be seen. Then we head on to Seeing the best examples of the fairy chimneys at Pasabag Fairy Chimneys and Zelve Valley, we drive further to Avanos Town, which is famous with tile and pottery workshops. We will have lunch in a special local restaurant in this small town. After lunch our next stop is Goreme Open Air Museum where you will enjoy the fantastic rock churches and beautiful frescos from various centuries decorating the walls of the churches. Then we drive to the Uchisar Rock Castle, which is the highest and the most dominant point, giving us a breathtaking panorama. We end the day visiting Esentepe Windy Hill for panaromic view and taking photos. The tour nearly finishes at 18:00pm. We will drop you back to your hotel or airport.

3 Days Cappadocia Tour

5. 3 Days Cappadocia Tour

Day 1 - Cappadocia - Göreme Open Air Museum Today our tour will start by visiting the valleys around the Cappadocia. Our first stop will be Goreme valley where had become one of the most important center of christianism in the VI and IX centuries Later we will visit Uchisar, one of the more popular destinations for travelers. We will have coffee break then we will visit Goreme Open-Air Museum. There are over 10 cave churches in the Goreme Open Air Museum. Along with rectories, dwellings, and a religious school, they form a large monastic complex carved out of a roughly ring-shaped rock formation in Cappadocia. Entrance to the site is on the north side. We will offer a delicious lunch and we will visit Urgup that promoted Nevşehir area to the world with its historical heritage and natural beauty. Urgup is probably the busiest of the small towns in the vicinity of the Cappadocian sites. It's possibly the tattiest as well; recent development has mushroomed leaving a grim legacy of poorly designed and serviced buildings. The road down into the town however does take you past some pleasant rock carved dwellings, accommodation and restaurants. It's worth wondering around the old town for a taste of what the place must have been like before we all arrived. Then we will visit wine cellar and taste wines. Then we will visit Monks Valley (Rahipler Vadisi), with its chimneys with multiple stems and caps, some housing chapels and living areas found here, have a particular style. Avanos is set on the banks of the Kizilirmak, the Red River, which gets its name from the clay that it deposits. This clay has provided Avanos with pottery for centuries and the town is still dominated by this industry despite the inroads that tourism has made in the area. The main street has numerous shops and workshops selling plain and decorated pots and plates and you can watch the potters at work using kick wheels, the design has remained unchanged for generations. Many of the workshops will encourage you to have a go yourself. It's harder than it looks. Overnight in Avanos, Urgup or Goreme. Day 2 - Ihlara Valley - Selime Cathedral - Derinkuyu Underground City - Pigeons Valley After breakfast you will be picked up from your hotel at approx 9:00 and we will go to Ihlara valley for hiking. The Ihlara Valley, once called Peristrema, for its scenery and churches, which are small and mostly semi-ruined. After our lunch break, we visit Selime Cathedral. It is a massive mountain, that is actually an amazing rock cut cathedral and The biggest and deepest is Derinkuyu Underground City. There are eight floors and extend at a depth of approximately 85 m. The underground city at Derinkuyu has all the usual amenities found in other underground complexes across Cappadocia, such as wine and oil presses, stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, and chapels. We will also see the Nar Crater Lake during our journey. Then we will visit Pigeon valleys to see pigeon’s houses. Day 3 - Rose Valley Today is end of your unique tour, before leaving we will have short walk in rose valley.The Rose Valley is an isolated valley behind Urgup. It has beautiful rock formations with some great hidden rock – carved churches. The most interesting part of this area is the countless tracks connecting the small villages and towns through vineyards and gardens like a spider net. It is always possible to see villagers working in the area and offering grapes, apples or apricots to you.

Exclusive Highlights of Cappadocia in One Day

6. Exclusive Highlights of Cappadocia in One Day

You will picked up from your hotel at around 09:00 in the morning and start your full day Cappadocia tour. Your first meeting with the lunar landscape of Cappadocia will be in the Devrent Imagination Valley which is famous for animal-like natural rock formations. After Devrent you will visit Pasabag (Monk’s Valley) where you will see mushroom shaped fairy chimneys with multiple stems and caps. After Pasabag a short drive will take you to Avanos Town which is divided into two by the longest river of Turkey, Kizilirmak (Redriver) and famous for tile and pottery workshops. After lunch in a local restaurant you will visit the famous Goreme Open Air Museum where you will see some well preserved, rock-cut churches with frescoes and paintings dating from as early as the 10th century and the best examples of Byzantine art in Cappadocia. Then head on to Uchisar Rock Castle which is the highest peak in the region and used as a fortress by the Roman and Byzantine armies. You will end the day with a descent towards to the center of the earth, with a trip to the Kaymakli Underground City which is one of the largest and most fascinating multilevel underground settlements of Cappadocia. This incredible underground world contains courtyards, stables, churches and wineries all intertwined in an extensive network of tunnels. At the end of a spectacular day’s sightseeing you will be dropped off your hotel at around 17:00.

Göreme: Full-Day Cappadocia Private Tour

7. Göreme: Full-Day Cappadocia Private Tour

You will be picked up from your hotel at 09:15 and start your tour at 09:30. Uchisar Castel is constructed on the highest point of the region and has a totally dictinct castle form, including graves, tunnels and churches which you cannot come across in any other place in the world. At Göreme Open Air Museum, it is especially important to understand the influence of religion, especially of Christianity on the region. For good reasons, it is the most famous attraction, a complex of several painted cave churches carved out by Orthodox monks between 900 and 1200 AD. Then drive to Love Valley. The best place to see three-headed fairy chimneys. Pasabag, the Pasha's Vineyard, is surrounded by incredible natural rock formations; a spectacular scene. Have an hour for lunch at Han Restaurant which is cool and popular in the region. You will start with the soup and then it will be self-service. Since the Hittites in 2000 BC, people could get red clays (terra rosa) around Kızılırmak River, which is the longest river in Turkey, and white clays (caulin) from the volcanic hills. They could use the clays for their daily life by shaping the clay with their hand on the spinning wheels. The ruins at Devrent are spread over three valleys, which also house several pointed fairy chimneys with large stems. The "fairy chimneys" with caps, mainly found in the vicinity of Ürgüp, have a conical-shaped body and a boulder on top of it. The cone is constructed from tufa and volcanic ash, while the cap is of a harder, more resistant rock such as lahar or ignimbrite. The fairy chimneys which are symbols of Ürgüp are called holy spirit chimneys. You'll find the mother, father and son fairy chimneys are together. At a carpet factory, every carpet, with its patterns, resembles a collection of messages, beliefs and symbols. Every pattern that is woven into a carpet is a picture of a feeling, a desire or a wish. Every carpet represents a living history from the early ages to the present in which women have patiently and untiringly written their joys and sorrows in amazing codes and magic letters which are to be read line by line. Your tour will finish at 17:30 and you will be dropped off back to your hotel.

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Overall rating

4.6 / 5

based on 573 reviews

Excellent tour, I had the luck of being the only one who booked for that day, so the tour turned out to be a private one, with no extra cost. The guide, Aras, was very friendly, knowledgeable, right on time for pick up and also since I was the only one for the tour, was so kind to take me to an extra panoramic view at sunset. I would definitely recommed this tour if you want to see all the major atractions in Cappadocia in one day.

Great English! He was friendly and very knowledgeable. He brought the sights to life with expectations and the story behind them. Went at our pace and was very flexible! It was by far the most enjoyable tour the wife and I have been on!! We travel quite a bit and have been on several tours. So that’s very high praise!

This was the best guide i ever had. Was with Atakan. He was very friendly Left us no doubt that we want to visit the city again. Amazing history. Worth every money.