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Ihlara Valley Hike: Explore Ancient Monastery & City
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1,539 Ratings
Goreme
Hiking in Ihlara Valley to a classic village lunch on the river, exploring the ancient monastery and underground city with its unique beauty.
Hiking in Ihlara Valley to a classic village lunch on the river, exploring the ancient monastery and underground city with its unique beauty.
Duration:
9 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Goreme Panorama - Our first stop will be at the Göreme Panoramic Point, where we have magnificent views over Göreme Valley
- Kaymakli Underground City - We will head to the ancient Underground City occupied by many different civilizations throughout its 4000 year history. We will learn about how and why the city was built here and how they…
- Goreme Panorama - Our first stop will be at the Göreme Panoramic Point, where we have magnificent views over Göreme Valley
- Kaymakli Underground City - We will head to the ancient Underground City occupied by many different civilizations throughout its 4000 year history. We will learn about how and why the city was built here and how they managed to live underground.
- Selime Monastery - We will visit Selime rock-art Monastery, which is the biggest rock-cut structure in all of Cappadocia. The monastery was the center of religious, social and commercial life.
- Ihlara Valley - We will take will take a pleasant 3 km hike through Ihlara Valley, a natural green canyon as deep as 100 meters at some points. There you will see cave churches with some unusual frescoes and enjoy lunch by the river.
- Pigeon Valley - Our last stop has a beautiful view of Uçhisar Castle across the gardens of Guvercinlik Vadisi (Pigeon Valley). This is great location for scenic photos. Additionally, we will visit the onyx workshop where we can see the region’s precious stones in here.
What's Included
- Lunch
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- All fees and/or taxes
- Lunch
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- All fees and/or taxes
What's Not Included
- drinks during lunch are extra and will be paid by the guests.
- drinks during lunch are extra and will be paid by the guests.
Additional Information
- Baby seat available upon request.
- Baby seat available upon request.
Location
Goreme Panorama
Uchisar Yolu uzeri 1.km
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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T66vjwhbbp
Aug 25, 2024
Super nice - Book this! It’s was perfect and we are more than happy. Amazing tour! Great value for money. Thank you
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Travelwelshman
Aug 25, 2024
Best way to see south of Cappadocia in a short amount of time! - This tour was the best way to explore all the best sites south of Cappadocia in the most easy, comfortable and memorable way possible.
Our guide was incredibly friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. There were also no hidden fees.
I would highly recommend for any visitor to Cappadocia!
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Cristan_f
Aug 24, 2024
Great tour with Hakem - Tour guide Hakem was very engaging! Full of enthusiasm and information. The stops were great. I thought this would be a more active tour but it was not very taxing. However if you are a large person or claustrophobic, the underground city might be a challenge. The tour has quite a bit of driving time and the van was very comfortable and cool even in the hot weather.
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Jeremy
Aug 23, 2024
I learnt a lot! - Our tour guide Hakan was excellent, he had encyclopaedic knowledge of both the area and the region’s fascinating history and his communication skills were top notch.
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Dmitrijs_j
Aug 23, 2024
The sights were... - The sights were interesting as well as the guide was knowledgable and explained the history enough. This one is way better than a red tour I did, that other one could be skipped imo.
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Gianpaolino
Aug 21, 2024
A perfect day with Ali_____babba - Ali you are simply the best did you wash your shirt ?
We spent a beautiful day with you and the other guys everything was perfect
Ciao
Gianni
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985kellit
Aug 21, 2024
Great experience! - This was an excellent tour. Ali G was a great tour guide - very informative and good sense of humour. Would recommend to request him.
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Elena
Aug 21, 2024
Cool Tour in the Warm Cappadocia of August - Ali was a fantastic Guide! Engaging and nice, the tour was organized very well with stops of the right duration. Extra stop a snack with local strawberries!
Highly recommended in the hot season of August the green tour!
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Fannig843
Aug 21, 2024
Wonderful experience in Cappadocia - We found hereke travel on Lonely planet and without hesitation we booked the green tour and the red tour; never choice was more apt, competent guides, nice, but above all passionate! We spent two wonderful days in a cappadocia that only thanks to them we could explore with awareness. Thank you so much Hereke Tour and thanks to our guides :)
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Trip48374849660
Aug 20, 2024
Amazing day on Cappadocia !!! - We did a green tour in Cappadocia and our tour guide Hakan was amazing. He was so knowledgeable about Turkey and history. He was very entertaining as well. Out driver Tolunay did a great job in getting as from one attraction to one in great time. They are both employed by Herekel Travel. Agency is amazing, we were staying out of the way from everyone else on the tour but they arrange for us to be picked up by someone else and brought us to the bus to join everyone else on the tour.
Green tour was amazing and if you are staying in Gorome I would definitely recommend they you book your tour with them. They made our day amazing. Thank you again
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