2 Days Cappadocia Tour from Istanbul optional Balloon Flight

2 Days Cappadocia Tour from Istanbul optional Balloon Flight

This Cappadocia 2-day tour package departs from Istanbul hotel. Along with a professional tour guide, you will visit historic sites in Cappadocia such as Red and Rose Valley, Esentepe, Great Pigeon Valley, Avanos, Kaymakli Underground City, Dervent Valley, Pasbag, the Goreme Open-Air Museum and Uchisar Rock Castle. Also including the Cave Hotel (Suite Cave Room with Jacuzzi) accommodation, transportation and museums fees. And Optional: Pre-sunrise Cappadocia hot air balloon Deluxe flight.

Itinerary

Day 1: Istanbul hotel – Istanbul airport transfer, Cappadocia transfer and Red Tour

Stop At: Devrent Valley, Devrent Mevkii No:1 Aktepe Koyu Turkey
4.30 am Pickup from your Istanbul hotel and transfer to Istanbul airport. You will receive your Flight Ticket after reservation.

“We will meet you at the Cappadocia Airport with your name written paper for transfer”

Start the day visiting Devrent Valley, also known as “Imagination Valley”, this is the most surreal-looking landscape.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Fairy Chimneys, Zelve Yolu, 50500 Çavuşin/Avanos/Nevşehir, 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.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Avanos Oren Yeri, Kapadokya Cd., Avanos 50500 Turkey
Proceed to Avanos the pottery centre of Cappadocia, this village is set on the banks of the Red River. 

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Museu a Ceu Aberto de Goreme, Merkez, Muze Cd. Merkez Mah., 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. 

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Fairy Chimneys, Goreme Turkey
Panoramic view point Esentepe. 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. (4.30 pm)

Duration: 1 hour

Meals included:
• Lunch
Accommodation included: Overnight at Cave Suite Hotel (Cave room)

Day 2: Opt: Cappadocia balloon tour, Blue tour and Return airport transfer

Stop At: Goreme panorama, Uchisar Yolu uzeri 1.km, Goreme 50180 Turkey
After pickup from your hotel at 9.45am, hike along the Red and Rose Valley, the most breathtakingly and mysteriously beautiful valleys in the region. Conclude your hike at the Cavusin Cave Village. Marvel at the rock castle and troglodyte dwellings where people lived until the 20th century. Enjoy lunch in a local restaurant.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Kaymakli Underground City, Derinkuyu Turkey
Descend towards the center of the earth with a trip to the Underground City of Kaymakli, one of the largest and deepest of Cappadocia’s many such settlements. Discover this underground city and its stables, cellars, storage rooms, refectories, churches, and wineries.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Pigeon Valley, Uchisar KasabasI Nevşehir Kapadokya, Goreme 50240 Turkey
Visit the Pigeon Valley. See spectacular view of dovecotes (pigeon or dove houses), old abandoned cave homes and old Greek houses of Uchisar
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Ortahisar Kalesi, Ortahisar Turkey
And Ortahisar Castle, the biggest mass of fairy chimneys in Cappadocia. 

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Fairy Chimneys, Goreme Turkey
4.00 pm. Check out of your hotel and then finish your tour with a transfer to the airport.
Duration: 1 hour

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.