Private: 2 Days Cappadocia Tour from Istanbul
Descriptions
Private: Cappadocia 2 full day tour with overnight in Cave Suite Hotel and flight package departs from your Istanbul Hotel. Along with a professional tour guide with Mercedes Vito and driver, you will visit historic sites in Cappadocia such as Red and Rose Valley, Esentepe, Great Pigeon Valley, Avanos, Kaymakli Underground City, Dervent Valley, Pasabag, the Goreme Open-Air Museum and Uchisar Rock Castle. Also including private transportation and museums fees. And optional: Cappadocia pre-sunrise hot air balloon tour.
Includes
Flight tickets (Round-Trip)
Private: Istanbul Hotel – Airport transfer (Round-Trip)
Private: Cappadocia hotel – Airport transfer (Round-Trip)
Breakfast (1 Day)
Lunch (2 Day)
Overnight accommodation – Deluxe Cave Suite Room
Private: Red Cappadocia tour (Full-Day)
Private: Blue Cappadocia tour (Full-Day)
Professional art historian guide
Entrance fees
All taxes fees and handling charges
Excludes
Cappadocia pre-sunrise hot air balloon tour. €175 per person
Notes & Alerts
Extra Day: If you wish to stay longer, you can do so at €100 per room/per night including breakfast. You can make the payment when you’re in Cappadocia. Please let us know if you wish to extend your stay.
Day 1: Departure
4.15 am Pickup from your Istanbul hotel and private transfer to Istanbul airport. You will receive your Flight Tickets after reservation. You will be met at the Cappadocia airport with your name written on a paper for private Cappadocia transfer. Private Red tour: Start the day visiting Devrent Valley, also known as “Imagination Valley”, this is the most surreal-looking landscape. Your next stop will be Pashabagi also called the Monks Valley because Christian hermits chose to locate hermit cells and churches in these three-headed pinnacles symbolic of the Holy Trinity, it is possible to see all the stages in the formation of fairy chimneys at this spot. Proceed to Avanos the pottery centre of Cappadocia, this village is set on the banks of the Red River. You will have lunch in a local restaurant before continuing to Goreme Open Air Museum. The world’s most important Byzantine cave churches are found in these once remote valleys where monks and nuns pursued monastic life from the 3rd century on. Here you can see the best preserved Byzantine cave wall paintings and frescos from the Iconoclastic period through to the end of Seljuk rule. Panoramic view point Esentepe. With a spectacular view over Goreme, see the complete view of Goreme valley and Goreme village: fairy chimneys, rock formations and cave houses. End your day with Uchisar Castle. This tall rock, the highest point of the Goreme region. After the tour, Transfer to your hotel and overnight stay in Cave Suite Hotel.
Day 2
(Optional: Pre-sunrise hot-air balloon flight. Hotel pickup: around 06:30 during winter and 04:30 during summer. Dropoff: 8.00/30) Private Blue tour: After pickup from your hotel at 9.45am, hike along the Red and Rose Valley, the most breathtakingly and mysteriously beautiful valleys in the region. Conclude your hike at the Cavusin Cave Village. Marvel at the rock castle and troglodyte dwellings where people lived until the 20th century. Enjoy lunch in a local restaurant. Descend towards the center of the earth with a trip to the Underground City of Kaymakli, one of the largest and deepest of Cappadocia’s many such settlements. Discover this underground city and its stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, churches, and wineries. Visit the Pigeon Valley. See spectacular view of dovecotes (pigeon or dove houses), old abandoned cave homes and old Greek houses of Uchisar and Ortshisar Castle, the biggest mass of fairy chimneys in Cappadocia. 18.00 pm. At end of the tour you will be private transferred to Cappadocia airport for your return flight to Istanbul. Upon your arrival in Istanbul, you will be met at the airport with your name written paper and private transferred from the airport to your hotel in Istanbul. End of our service.