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

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Istanbul

• 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.

Goreme Open-Air Museum

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.

Pasabag

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.

Ortahisar

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.

Devrent Valley

• 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.

Cappadocia

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