Cappadocia Day Tour from Istanbul Including Balloon Flight

Cappadocia Day Tour from Istanbul Including Balloon Flight

This Cappadocia 1-night/1-day tour package departs from your Istanbul hotel. Along with a professional tour guide, you will visit historic sites in Cappadocia such as Esentepe, Great Pigeon Valley, Avanos, Dervent Valley, Pasbag, the Goreme Open-Air Museum and Uchisar Rock Castle. Also including Pre-sunrise Cappadocia hot air balloon Deluxe flight!, the cave hotel accommodation, transportation and museums fees, breakfast, lunch etc.

11.45 am Pickup from your Istanbul hotel and transfer to Istanbul airport. You will receive your PNR code after reservation.

You will be met at the Kayseri airport (Cappadocia) with your name written on a paper. 

Transfer to your hotel and overnight stay in Cave Suites Hotel. 

Pre-sunrise hot-air balloon tour:

You are picked up from your hotel one hour before the sunrise (around 06:30 during winter and 04:30 during summer) in our VIP vehicles and taken to the take off area. While we complete the final preparations for your flight, you are served breakfast. Your pilot will show you all the unique beauties of Cappadocia from Red Valley to Goreme. While witnessing an amazing sunrise up in the air, you will get to see the perfect panoramic views of Urgup, Goreme, Ortahisar,Uchisar, Avanos and Nevsehir.

Our routes of flight offer you a great variety of unique beauty of Cappadocia. The landing point of your hot-air balloon will depend on the weather conditions of that day for the right spot. Once your balloon is landed, we celebrate your hot-air balloon experience with fruit juice and cake.

Your flight certificates which are prepared in your own name are also handed by our pilots before you are dropped off back at your hotel.

Then, 9.45 am Pick up at your hotel for daily tour.

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

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.

17.00 pm. Finish your package with a transfer to the airport (Nevsehir airport or Kayseri airport) or You can stay in the Hotel.