Goreme Trip Overview
Visit the Devrent Imagination Valley, Zelve Open Air Museum, Pasabaglari, Fairy Chimneys, Avanos, Uchisar Rock-Castle, Esentepe and Goreme Open Air Museum.
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Goreme, Turkey
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> Full-day Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey
Visit the Devrent Imagination Valley, Zelve Open Air Museum, Pasabaglari, Fairy Chimneys, Avanos, Uchisar Rock-Castle, Esentepe and Goreme Open Air Museum.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Devrent Valley, Devrent Mevkii No:1 Urgup Yolu, 50500 Turkey
Enjoy breakfast at your hotel or in the town before starting your full day Cappadocia small group city tour. You will be picked up from your hotel at 9:45am.
Start the day visiting Devrent Valley, also known as “Imagination Valley”, this is the most surreal-looking landscape.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Avanos Oren Yeri, Kapadokya Cd., Avanos 50500 Turkey
Your next stop will be Pashabagi also called the Monks Valley because Christian hermits chose to locate hermit cells and churches in these three-headed pinnacles symbolic of the Holy Trinity, it is possible to see all the stages in the formation of fairy chimneys at this spot.
Proceed to Avanos (Venessa) the pottery centre of Cappadocia, this village is set on the banks of the Kizilirmak/Red River. The river gets its name from the red clay it deposits. You can watch the potters at work using kick wheels, the technique which has remained unchanged for generations.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Goreme Open-Air Museum, Merkez, Muze Cd., Goreme 50180 Turkey
You will have lunch in a local restaurant before continuing to Goreme Open Air Museum. The world’s most important Byzantine cave churches are found in these once remote valleys where monks and nuns pursued monastic life from the 3rd century on. Here you can see the best preserved Byzantine cave wall paintings and frescos from the Iconoclastic period through to the end of Seljuk rule. Icons with scenes from the Old Testament and the New Testament above portraits of Church Fathers and saints depict the structure of the Byzantine universe.
Panoramic view point Esentepe.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Fairy Chimneys, Goreme Turkey
With a spectacular view over Goreme, see the complete view of Goreme valley and Goreme village: fairy chimneys, rock formations and cave houses. End your day with Uchisar Castle. This tall rock, the highest point of the Goreme region.
After the tour, you will be returned to your hotel around 4:30pm.
Duration: 1 hour
