Cappadocia – tours.stanpolis

*Pick up you from your Hotel or Airport and start North Tour.
*Our first real encounter with Cappadocia almost Martian landscape is in the Dervent valley.
*Then we will visit Pasabag’s “fairy chimneys”, where the voice of the wind harmonizes with the songs of the fairies.
*After we pause at Avanos center of terracotta art which is a popular destination because of its attractive old town with cobbled streets, and views over the river and is its production of earthenware pottery
*Last after lunch we visit the famous Goreme Open Air Museum to see the best examples of Byzantine art in Cappadocia. People of Goreme, at the heart of the Cappadocia Region, realized that these soft rocks could be easily carved out to form houses, churches, and monasteries. These Christian sanctuaries contain many examples of Byzantine art from the post iconoclastic period.
*End of the tour, transfer to the Hotel.

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*Pick up you from your Hotel or Airport and start South Tour.
*First we will visit Red valley through Cavusin and explore the famous rock-cut churches and hike 2 km.
*Then visit Cavusin village. Old Cavusin was abandoned several decades ago due to avalanches. The current village of Cavusin is located on the road. Old Cavusin, with its rock-cut dwellings and stone houses, had several hermitages.
*After lunch drive to the Pigeon Valley.
*In the afternoon visit Underground City, where early Christians lived in fear and faith. The houses in the village are constructed around the nearly one hundred tunnels of the underground city, which is one of the most interesting underground settlements in Cappadocia.
*End of the tour, transfer to the Hotel.

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*Start the tour with a spectacular view over Goreme from Esentepe. You will see the complete view of Goreme valley and Goreme village: fairy chimneys, rock formations and cave houses.
*Continue driving to Derinkuyu Underground City, one of the best preserved and deepest Underground Cities in Cappadocia. Derinkuyu is excavated to a depth of approximately 85 m. It contains all the usual rooms found in an underground city (stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, churches, wineries etc.)
*Proceed to Ihlara Valley. This gorge is 16 km long and both sides are lined with rock-carved churches; there are more than a hundred little churches and houses.
*At the end of your walk lunch will be served at Belisirma Village by the river.
*On the way back visit Selime Monastery, carved out of the rock by Christian monks in the 13th century. The size of the church makes a visit here astonishing.
*End of the tour. Transfer to the Hotel.

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*The tour starts with Kaymakli Underground City which is one of the most interesting underground settlements in Cappadocia. The underground city was originally carved out as eight floors
*Soganli Valley, an Open Air Museum in a wild natural setting near a typical Cappadocian village with its different styles Rock-Cut churches and frescoes. Villages in the valleys, surrounded by the “tabletop” mountains, are spectacular. The valley was continuously inhabited since the earliest days of the Christian era, and has churches that date from the 9th to 13th centuries.
*Lunch and Visit to Sahinefendi (Sobessos) – Sobessos, newly discovered (01 May 2002) mosaic houses & Archaeological excavation site.
*Continue with Keslik Monastery near Cemil which hides its frescoes behind a very thin smoke layer which we can only see by torch light.
*Our tour finishes with a visit to Mustafapasha (Sinassos), an old Greek town with its spectacular old Greek houses
*End of the tour. Transfer to the Hotel.

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