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Full Day Private Cappadocia Tour
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Goreme
Discover Cappadocia your way with a customizable private tour. Explore caves, churches, and more with a licensed guide. Book your adventure today.
Duration:
7 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Goreme Panorama - GOREME PANORAMA, The most magnificent landscape around Göreme has been formed from its solidified lava streams, its ash and tuff stone, all dating from Neocene period. It is criss-crossed by deep valleys formed by heavy erosion. This veritable lunar landscape distinguishes itself by its extensive geological formations. The highly typical morphological structures of Cappadocia are the result of thousands of years of continual erosion, which has shaped the tuff deposits into the strangest pyramids and cones.
- Uchisar Castle - UCHISAR is a troglodyte village situated 4 km east of Göreme. It is famous for the huge rock formation once used as a fortification. This extraordinary rock is the highest peak in the region and offers a magnificent panoramic view of the whole of Cappadocia with Mt. Erciyes in the distance.Most rooms in the castle are connected to each other with stairs, tunnels and passages. At the entrances of many rooms, there are millstone doors, just like the ones in the underground settlements, used to control access to these places. Due to erosion it is unfortunately not possible to reach all the rooms. Most of the rooms, located on the north side of the castle are still in use as pigeon houses (dovecotes) today. Farmers used these pigeon houses to collect the droppings of pigeons which is an excellent natural fertilizer for the orchards and vineyards.
- Pigeon Valley - PIGEON VALLEY, thousands of pigeon houses carved into the rock. It is a surreal vision: an outrageously phallic landscape straight out of a Salvador Dali painting. The conical formations are the result of volcanic eruptions that took place millions of years ago. Eons of wind, rain and other forces of nature have eaten away at the volcanic rock creating tufa, a soft and malleable stone. Many of these cones, known as fairy chimneys, contain caves and labyrinths.
- Kaymakli Underground City - KAYMAKLI UNDERGROUND CITY is built under the hill known as the Citadel of Kaymaklı and was opened to visitors in 1964. The people of Kaymaklı (Enegup in Greek) have built their houses around nearly 100 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. Kaymaklı 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.
- Goreme Open-Air Museum - GOREME OPEN AIR MUSEUM, Cappadocia’s most famous attraction, for good reason, is the Göreme Open Air Museum, a complex of medieval painted cave churches carved out by Orthodox monks. There are over 10 cave churches in the Göreme Open Air Museum. Along with rectories, dwellings, and a religious school, they form a large monastic complex carved out of a roughly ring-shaped rock formation in the otherworldly landscape of Cappadocia. The best way to explore the cave churches of Goreme is via the clearly marked path, working counterclockwise. Each one has a modern Turkish name, given by local villages based on a prominent feature.
- Pasabag - PASABAG, Highly remarkable earth pillars can be seen here, in the middle of a vineyard, hence the name of the place which means: the Pasha’s vineyard. Pasha 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.
- Devrent Valley - DEVRENT VALLEY, Also known as Imaginary Valley or Pink Valley, this area does not have cave churches like the other valleys of Cappadocia. So what makes it so famous? The lunar landscape! Devrent Valley hides many different rock formations within. The small fairy chimneys in the valley form a lunar landscape, or moonscape, by their strange appearance. The valley has many animal-shaped rocks. Some of the most commonly seen shapes include camel, snake, seals, and dolphin
- Avanos - Avanos is a town in centre of Cappadocia and famous for pottery making we will make a stop in one of the pottery workshop and you will watch pottery demonstration also you can try yourself as well
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What's Included
- Air conditioned comfortable luxury van with driver
- Private transportation
- Parking Fees
- Professional Licensed Local Tour Guide
What's Not Included
- Lunch
- Tips to Driver and Guide
- Entrance Tickets for Kaymakli Underground City
- Entrance Tickets for Goreme Open-Air Museum
- Entrance Tickets for Pasabagı
Additional Information
Combine the liberty of solo travel with the knowledge of a certified tour guide on this fully customizable private tour of Cappadocia. Whether you’re interested in exploring caves, crafts, churches, or hiking trails, your guide will collect you from your hotel at a time that fits your schedule and provide a personalized itinerary. Please be aware that mileage restrictions apply and entrance fees are not included.
Location
Goreme Panorama
Uchisar Yolu uzeri 1.km
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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531marianneh
Jul 9, 2024
Great Cappadocia Tour - We booked two-day red & green private tour. The mini van was very clean & spacious. Our guide Cemil was fantastic, friendly and informative. Highly recommended.
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U2656vastefaniet
Jul 8, 2024
Great private tour experience - I recommend this private tour! It came with a huge Mercedes van and experienced driver. The tour guide Mr. Cemil was very knowledgable and helped plan our days according to our wants and capabilities. He knew a lot about the history of the places we went to and was very friendly. Great experience overall.
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Rekha
Jul 7, 2024
Best Pvt guide - Mr Cemil a great private guide punctual , knowledgeable,flexible ,patient and gave great suggestions recommend strongly
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246naeemb
Jun 24, 2024
Cappadochia guided tour - Jameel was an excellent tour guide. Knowledable and attentive. Just the right amount of information, and time spent at each stop. It ended up being a combination of the red and green tour which was great.
Also allowed us to select places of interest to suit us and prevent duplication. Also took us to a lovely spot for lunch.
Our tour started around 10:30 and ended just after 18:00. I highly recommend our guide Jameel, friendly and helpful. Spoke English well. Happy to guide us, and not pushy at all.
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