Istanbul to Cappadocia: 2-Day Tour with Hot Air Balloon, Pottery Demo, Göreme Museum Visit

See a pottery demonstration in Avanos

Visit Göreme Open Air Museum and Derinkuyu Underground City

Go on a hot air balloon tour

Duration: 2 days
Cancellation: 6 days learn more
Highlights

Cappadocia - 05:30 Pick up from your hotel and transfer to Istanbul airport.
07:10 Depart from Istanbul for Nevsehir.
08:40 Arrive in Kayseri or Nevşehir airport, meet in the airport. Transfer to Cappadocia your hotel.you check in hotel

Uchisar Castle - 09:30: Join in the first day tour of Cappadocia.
First stop is Uçhisar Castle. It is constructed on the highest point of the region. It has a totally dictinct castle form, including graves, tunnels and churches, that you cannot come across at any other place in the world.

Goreme Open-Air Museum - Open Air Museum especially important to understand the influence of the 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.

Cavusin - An old Greek village will be next place in the tour. Çavusin is a village about 4 kilometers from Göreme .The old village is largely deserted because the area has been plagued by rock falls. At Çavusin you can visit the Church of John the Baptist which probably dates from the 5th century with paintings from the 6th, 7th and 8th centuries. The view of Rose Valley is excellent from this village.

Pasabag - The best place to see three-headed fairy chimneys. Pasabag, the Pasha’s Vineyard, is surrounded by incredible natural rock formations; a spectacular scene.

Avanos - 1 hour for the lunch in Restaurant which is very cool and popular in the region .You will start with the soup. Than you will have self-service.

Bezirhane Culture, Arts and Ceramics Center - Since Hittites 2000 BC people could get the red clays (terra rosa) around Kızılırmak river which is the longest river of Turkey, and white clays ( caulin) from volcanic hills .They could use the clays for their daily lifes by shaping the clay by their hand on the spinning wheels.

Sentez Avanos Hali - Rug Workshop & Store - 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. So far as that 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.

Devrent Valley - The ruins at Devrent are spread over three valleys, which also house several pointed fairy chimneys with large stems.

Urgup - 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 holly spirit chimneys. There is mother, father and son fairy chimneys stay together.
After tour you will be dropped to hotel.

What's Included
  • Hotel/port pickup and drop-off
  • Private tour with a professional guide
  • Includes breakfast and lunch
  • Overnight accommodation provided
What's Not Included
  • Drinks
  • Dinner
Additional Information
  • Minimum age is 6 years for hot air balloon tour
  • Not recommended for participants with back problems for balloon tours.(50 euro back)
  • Not recommended for pregnant women for balloons tours (50 euro back)
Cancellation Policy

If you cancel at least 7 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel between 3 and 6 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a 50% refund.
If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.

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