This full-day guided tour covers the visit to the Devrent Valley, Avanos, Goreme Open Air Museum, Fairy Chimneys, Uchisar Castle Region. Entrance fees, lunch, guiding service and transportation from/to your hotel are included.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
✓ Transportation by air-conditioned vehicles
✓ You will have a lunch during guided tour
✓ Entrance fees of museums, national parks, ruins mentioned in the itinerary
✓ Hotel Pick-up & drop-off services - Valid for all options
✓ Professional tour guide who licenced by Ministry of Culture and Tourism
✓ Airport Pick-up & drop-off services in Cappadocia & Istanbul - Valid for "from/to Istanbul Hotels"
✗ Drinks
WHAT TO EXPECT
1. Istanbul
*** This pick-up service is valid for guests who booked the option of "from/to Istanbul Hotels" : The travel services will start with a departure transfer from your hotel to airport. The driver will meet you at the reception of your hotel (or your AirBnb address if the street of it is available for car parking) and then transfer to airport for your flight from Istanbul to Cappadocia.
2. Cappadocia
Upon your arrival Cappadocia airport, you will be met by your private tour guide and driver, and then start your full-day guided Cappadocia tour in private basis. The tour guide and driver will be waiting you at the exit gate of arrival terminal in airport, and holding a signboard written your name on it.
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*** This pick-up service is valid for guests who booked the option of "from/to Cappadocia Hotels" : We will pick you up from your hotel and then start your full-day guided Cappadocia tour in private basis.
4. Keslik Monastery
Keslik Monastery is a sprawling cave monastery complex with two churches, a large refectory hall, a sacred spring, and endless cave rooms. Located in an idyllic garden setting, this is the most expansive monastery in Cappadocia. This site has been used and developed in many ways throughout the course of 2,000 years. This area was a gravesite in pre-Christian Roman times, a large communal monastery during the Byzantine era, and now a tourist site in modern Turkey.
5. Kaymakli Underground City
Kaymakli, one of the major underground cities of Cappadocia, consists of 8 floors. However, as in many underground cities, not all floors are open to tourists. In the city, the first floor is separated for the animals to go out easily. Establish a connection between the churches and other living spaces with the corridors separated from the stables. Kaymakli Underground City, which has astounding sections such as warehouses, kitchens, cemeteries, mughouse, and copper processing workshop, still contains hidden underground tunnels that have not been fully revealed.
6. Avanos Oren Yeri
Today’s lunch service will be in a local restaurant at the Avanos, and you will have chance for test the "Testi Kebab" which is a traditional kebab variety of the Cappadocia region of Turkey. (Also, vegetarian meals are available in same restaurant.) Avanos is a popular destination because of its attractive old town with cobbled streets, and views over the river. The old city of Avanos, whose name in ancient times was Venessa, overlooks the longest river of Turkey, the Kizilirmak (Red River), which also separates Avanos from the rest of Cappadocia. The most famous historical feature of Avanos, which is still relevant and very visible today, is its production of earthenware pottery; it is also the most economic activity in the town. The ceramic trade in this district and its countless pottery factories date right back to the Hittites, and the ceramic clay from the red silt of the Kizilirmak has always been used.
7. Goreme Open-Air Museum
Here is the monastery, including the rock cut churches, kitchens, wineries, storages and living rooms left from Anatolian Christians. Goreme Open Air Museum is listed as one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
8. Uchisar Castle
Uchisar rock castle is one of the biggest landmarks of Cappadocia. It is the highest tuff hill in the area with beautiful views of the surrounding valley full of bizarre rock formations. (There are no any visit to rock castle because of the walking difficulties and safety risks on there. You will have a stop for panoramic view to this rock castle.)
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*** This drop-off service is valid for guests who booked the option of "from/to Cappadocia Hotels" :At the end of tour, you will be dropped back to your hotel in Cappadocia.
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*** These drop-off & return transfer services are valid for guests who booked the option of "from/to Istanbul Hotels" : At the end of tour, you will be transferred to Cappadocia airport for your flight back to Istanbul. Upon your arrival Istanbul, we will meet you again at the airport and then we will drop you to your hotel in Istanbul. *** The departure time of return flight is between 08.00pm and 09.00pm. That's meaning, Your return flight will be landing Istanbul approx. 09.30pm and 10.45pm. *** The best timing is this one for you can catch your return flight to Istanbul after your full-day Cappadocia tour on today.
ADDITIONAL INFO
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
• This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate.
• Airport pick-up & drop-off services are valid for option of "from/to Istanbul Hotels"
• Notice to guests who booked the option of "from/to Istanbul Hotels" !!! Service provider (tour operator) can request your some passport details for the bookings of your flight tickets. If you do not share the details which requested by service provider (tour operator), your domestic flight tickets can not bookable.
• Notice to guests who booked the option of "from/to Istanbul Hotels" !!! Service provider (tour operator) will send e-tickets of your domestic flights at one day before your tour date. You will not need the print out copies of the tickets for domestic flights. Your passport, and reservation number on the tickets will be enough for get your boarding cards from the desks of airline companies.
• Notice to guests who booked the option of "from/to Istanbul Hotels" !!! If your return hotel is different than pick-up hotel, please inform that detail immediately. If you inform that detail after organised your flight tickets, service provider (tour operator) can request extra cost because of the distances between the airports and some hotels.
• Notice to guests who booked the option of "from/to Istanbul Hotels" !!! If your pick-up / drop-off hotels are inside of airports (IST and SAW airports) service provider (tour operator) do not provide any hotel pick-up / drop-off service.
• Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required.
• Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking.
• Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults. If you will be 1 adult + 1 child, service provider (tour operator) can request & charge the amount of 2 adults.
CANCELLATION POLICY
• For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
• If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
• Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
• Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
