2 Days 1 Night Cappadocia Tour from Istanbul by Plane With Optional Balloon Ride

Day 1 Istanbul to Cappadocia Flight and cappadocia tour

1. 1

   Istanbul

   2 hours

   Around 03:30 – 04:00 am, our team will pick you up from your Istanbul Hotel transfer you to the airport for your flight to Cappadocia. When you arrive to the airport, you make your self-check-in with the flight information provided to you after you booked this tour and take your flight to Cappadocia. Upon landing at Cappadocia, our team will welcome you at the exit gate of the domestic terminal. Then, there will be approx. an hour transfer to Cappadocia, meet your group and start this lifetime experience.
   Approximately 09:00 AM you will start the first day of your tour;
   First day's highlights :
   Goreme Open Air Museum
   Pasabaglar (Monk's Valley)
   Devret (Imagination Valley)
   Uchisar Castle
   Urgup Town
   Avanos Pottery Town
   Rose & Red Valleys
   Tour ends around 16.00 , then you will be dropped to your cave hotel in Goreme for a pleasant stay.

2. 2

   Goreme Open-Air Museum

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   The Goreme Open-Air Museum resembles a vast monastic complex composed of scores of refectory monasteries placed side-by-side, each with its own fantastic church. It is obviously the first sight to be visited by any traveler in Cappadocia, standing as it does in the very center of the region with easy access from all directions.

3. 3

   Pasabag

   1 hour Admission ticket included

   Pasabag in Cappadocia is located on the road to Zelve, coming from Goreme or Avanos. Highly remarkable earth pillars can be seen here, in the middle of a vineyard, hence the name of the place which means: the Pacha's vineyard. Pacha means "General", the military rank, in Turkish and it is a very common nick name. This site is also called Monks Valley. The name was derived from some cones carved in tuff stones which stand apart. Currently, there is a vineyard and a number of tuff cones standing right next to the road.

4. 4

   Ortahisar

   45 min

   Ortahisar means "middle castle," and as its name implies, it is central among the Cappadocian towns of Goreme, Urgup, Uchisar and Nevsehir, and only a few kilometers from the Goreme Open Air Museum. When entering the town, you will notice doors in the rock surfaces on both sides. These doors are the best example of the cool-air storages in Cappadocia. In these natural air-conditioned rooms, lemons and oranges from the Mediterranean region, apples from Nigde, local potatoes, quinces and onions are stored. Green lemons slowly turn yellow in these store-rooms.

5. 5

   Devrent Valley

   1 hour

   Devrent Valley, which is also known as Imaginary Valley and also as Pink Valley does not have cave churches like the other valleys of Cappadocia. There are no Roman castles or Roman tombs in Devrent Valley, either. Actually it was never inhabited. So what makes it so famous? The lunar landscape!
   Devrent Valley (also spelled as Dervent Valley) reveals many different rock formations and is only a 10 minute drive from Goreme. The small fairy chimneys in the valley form a lunar landscape, or moonscape, by their strange look. The valley also has many animal shaped rocks. It looks like a sculpture zoo made by nature. Some of the most important, or the easiest seen animal shapes are camel, snake, seals, and dolphin. If you let your imagination run free you will find many others. It is like looking at clouds and seeing a dragon. There is even a rock pillar which looks like Virgin Mary, holding Jesus Christ.

6. 6

   Cappadocia

   5 min

   At the end of the tour around 16:00-17:00, transfer to Hotel in Cappadocia and free time at leisure

Day 2 Cappadocia tour and Cappadocia to istanbul flight

1. 1

   Cappadocia

   3 hours

   Note: This morning is available to take optional activity: Hot Air Balloon Flights in Cappadocia. 05.00--06.00

2. 2

   Pigeon Valley

   30 min

   Pigeon Valley (often misspelled as Ilhara Valley), near Mount Hasan and Mount Melendiz (two of the three volcanoes of Cappadocia) is a canyon with a depth of approximately 100m and was formed by the Melendiz River thousands of years ago. It begins at Ihlara village and ends with Selime Monastery at Selime village

3. 3

   Kaymakli Underground City

   1 hour

   Kaymakli underground city is built under the hill known as the Citadel of Kaymakli and was opened to visitors in 1964. The people of Kaymakli (Enegup in Greek) village have constructed their houses around nearly one hundred tunnels of the underground city. The inhabitants of the region still use the most convenient places in the tunnels as cellars, storage areas and stables, which they access through their courtyards. The Kaymakli Underground City has low, narrow and sloping passages. While the underground city consists of 8 floors below ground, only 4 of them are open to the public today, in which the spaces are organized around ventilation shafts.

4. 4

   Goreme Panorama

   15 min

   The best view of Goreme Town and Volcano in clear weather.

5. 5

   45 min

   Kızılcukur is a valley called Rose Valley as well because of the red colors of the rocks. This is one of the best valleys for hiking in the area even for 4 km. Kızılcukur was also used by Christians at the 5th century, so you will explore tge cave dwellings and old churches. The colors also change up according to the daylight. It is the best place to see sunset.

6. 6

   Istanbul

   3 hours

   Tour will finish around 17:30 and you will be transferred to airport and you will take 20:30 flight to istanbul.
   From istanbul airport you will be picked and transfered to istanbul where you will spend the night.