Full-Day Cappadocia Green Tour with Lunch

Goreme Trip Overview

• This tour is guaranteed departure everyday.
• This tour has a maximum of 19 people per group.
Services included in the price
• Pickup from and dropoff to your hotel in Göreme, Ürgüp or Uçhisar
• Transport in a comfortable, AC, non-smoking minivan
• Professional, experienced and licensed local guide
• Lunch
• Entry fees to the museums and sights listed in the itinerary
Services not included in the price
• Beverages at lunch
• Non-mandatory but customary tips
• Personal travel insurance

Additional Info

Duration: 7 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Goreme, Turkey
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours

What to Expect When Visiting Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey

• This tour is guaranteed departure everyday.
• This tour has a maximum of 19 people per group.
Services included in the price
• Pickup from and dropoff to your hotel in Göreme, Ürgüp or Uçhisar
• Transport in a comfortable, AC, non-smoking minivan
• Professional, experienced and licensed local guide
• Lunch
• Entry fees to the museums and sights listed in the itinerary
Services not included in the price
• Beverages at lunch
• Non-mandatory but customary tips
• Personal travel insurance

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Ihlara Valley, Guzelyurt 68500 Turkey

The township is famed for the nearby valley of the same name, Ihlara Valley, which is a 16 km (10 mi) long gorge cut into volcanic rock in the southern part of Cappadocia, following several eruptions of Mount Erciyes. Through the valley flows Stream. What is unique about this valley is the ancient history of its inhabitants. The whole canyon is honeycombed with rock-cut underground dwellings and churches from the Byzantine period. Due that the richness of the watering possibility and its hidden form and easily to hide structure it was the first settlement place of the first Christians escaping from the Roman soldiers. In the Ihlara Valley there are hundreds of antic churches caved in the volcanic rocks. The most known churches are Ağaçaltı Church with cross plan, Sümbüllü Church, Pürenliseki Church, Kokar Church, Yilanli Church, Karagedik Church, Kirkdamatli Church, Direkli Church, Ala Church, Kemerli Church and Egritas Church.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Derinkuyu Yeralti Sehri, Derinkuyu Turkey

Derinkuyu Underground City, has all the usual amenities found in other underground complexes across Cappadocia, such as wine and oil presses, stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, and chapels. Unique to the Derinkuyu complex and located on the second floor is a spacious room with a barrel vaulted ceiling. It has been reported that this room was used as a religious school and the rooms to the left were studies. Between the third and fourth levels is a vertical staircase. This passage way leads to a cruciform church on the lowest level. The large 55 m ventilation shaft appears to have been used as a well. The shaft also provided water to both the villagers above and, if the outside world was not accessible, to those in hiding

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Selime Monastery, Guzelyurt Turkey

Selime Monastery, the biggest rock-cut monastery of Cappadocia with a cathedral sized church. Selime monastery was

carved by the monks in the 13th century and apart from the church has monks quarters, a large kitchen, and stables for animals. The walls were once decorated with frescoes of which very little remains.

Duration: 55 minutes

Stop At: Goreme Panorama, Uchisar Yolu uzeri 1.km, Goreme 50180 Turkey

Near to Göreme in Cappadocia, there is an area called Panoramic View.It gives you views over the whole of Goreme and if travel photography is your thing, you can guarantee that you will end up with some award winning pictures.There are many seats, where you can sit and let the world pass you by.
There are also a few restaurants serving traditional Turkish cuisine like Gozleme

Duration: 25 minutes

Stop At: Uchisar Castle, Uchisar Turkey

Uchisar castle is situated at the highest point in Cappadocia, on the Nevsehir-Goreme road, just 5 km from Goreme. The top of the Uchisar Castle, provides a magnificent panorama of the surrounding area with Mount Erciyes in the distance.
Many rooms hollowed out into the rock are connected to each other with stairs, tunnels and passages. At the entrances of the rooms, there are millstone doors, just like the ones in the underground settlements, used to control access to these places. Due to the erosion in places of this multi-leveled castle, it is unfortunately not possible to reach all the rooms. Most of the rooms, located on the north side of the castle are in use as pigeon houses (dovecuts) today. Farmers used these cave pigeon houses to collect the droppings of pigeons which is an excellent natural fertilizer for the orchards and vineyards.

Duration: 50 minutes

Stop At: Pigeon Valley, Uchisar KasabasI Nevşehir Kapadokya, Goreme 50240 Turkey

Pigeon valley name comes from the thousands of pigeon houses that have been carved into the soft tuff since ancient times. Although they can be found throughout Cappadocia, they are especially numerous in this valley. They were carved wherever space allowed, including abandoned cave houses and churches.

Duration: 25 minutes

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