3-Day Highlights of Cappadocia Tour

Day 1: Pick up from Kayseri or Nevsehir Airport and transfer to Hotel
(Accommodation: 4-star hotel or standard cave hotel)
Day 2: Pick up from hotel and Full-day Cappadocia Tour (B, L)
*Goreme Panorama: View the landscape of Cappadocia And Goreme National Park from this panoramic point.
*Uchisar Cave Houses: We enter one of the cave houses which is still being used as a cafeteria and offer you an apple tea. Here you will witness how the cave house could be spacious and charming with a stable temperature around 12 Degree Celcius. Cave house of Cappaodcia does not need A/C. It is cooler than outside in summer and warmer in winter.
*Pigeon Valley Photo stop (We view the valley which is full of dove-cote and if we are lucky some of the pigeons may be visible there).
*Goreme Open Air Museum: Goreme Open Air Musuem has a lot of rock cut churches and monasteries and once it was housing around 300 monks and nuns. Here was a school where they studied the Christianity and stayed at the troglodytes. We visit the rock-cut churches and monasteries with beautiful frescoes painted around 9-12 C AD.
*Pasabagi: The fairy-chimneys valley. The mushroom shaped natural rock formations of Cappadocia were named fairy chimneys by locals of Cappadocia.
*Avanos: The pottery town of Cappadocia, Avanos has been a handcraft town since 1600 BC, The Hittites Era. The kick wheel of the pottery was invented here and in recent centuries Avanos became a tile production town.
*Dervent Valley: A photo stop to see seating stone camel.
*Urgup Fairy-Chimneys: They are called the family fairy-chimneys because they are five altogether, grandfather, grandmother, the parents, and the child.
*Rose Valley and Swords Valley: We watch the sunset in the valley with a little wine party.
(Accommodation: 4-star hotel or standard cave hotel)
Day 3: Pick-up and continue Cappadocia Tour including Ihlara valley. (B, L)
* Ihlara Valley: Ihlara is a 14 km long , 150 meters deep canyon and has around 4000 manmade caves and 100 rock-cut churches and chapels . Here we walk 3 Km and visit some of the churches of Ihlara such as Agacalti church, Sumbullu church, Snake church.
* Lunch in Belisirma Village in middle of Ihlara valley.
* Selime Monastery: The biggest rock-cut monastery in Cappadocia, which is carved into a cliff . The scenery here is so unusual. It was used in the background for some parts of the Stars Wars Movie.
* Derinkuyu Underground City (optional to visit): Among several underground cities of Cappadocia, Derinkuyu is the biggest one in Cappadocia and was used as shelter in the dangerous times like the other underground cities of Cappadocia.
* Transfer to Airport (Kayseri or Nevsehir)
(Note: Hotels in Cappadocia - Dinler Hotel, Nevsehir, Sos Cave Hotel, Gedik Cave Hotel.)