Cappadocia Plus Valued Red Tour

Tour Info:
Tour Days: All year round
Duration: Full Day
Status: Regular (also available in private basis)
Pick up time: To be confirmed

Highlights:

• Devrent
• Pasabagi (Monk’s Valley)
• Avanos (Pottery Center)
• Esentepe
• Uchisar Castle
• Goreme Open Air Museum
• Ozkonak Underground City

Itinerary:

Our tour will start by picking you up from your hotel and headed to Devrent Valley where you can see many different rock formations and small fairy chimneys that form a lunar landscape with their strange look. After a short walk in this impressive valley, our tour will continue to Pasabagi (Monk’s Valley) where the most striking fairy chimneys in Cappadocia with twin and triple rock caps. These shapes are unique for Cappadocia and named ‘mushroom-shaped fairy chimneys.

After visiting Pasabagi, we will drive to Avanos, which is very famous for the pottery craft dating back to the Hittite period. Red color clay comes from the residue of the longest river of Turkey called Kizilirmak. In one of the pottery shops, you will be able to watch the demonstration of making pottery or you can try to do it yourself.

We will give a break to our tour for lunch in a local restaurant to taste the various kinds of Turkish cuisine.

After lunch, our destination will be Goreme Open Air Museum. Churches, chapels, and monasteries carved into the fairy chimneys from the 10^th to 13^th centuries A.D. will be the highlights of the day with frescos painted on the walls. You will be able to take pictures to carry the moments for your future memories.

Our final and plus valued destination is Ozkonak Underground City where dwellings with stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, churches, and wineries were used as refuges for the Christian communities.

After the tour, you will be transferred to your hotel.