From Istanbul: 2-Day Cappadocia Highlights Tour by Plane

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Welcome to Cappadocia! & Red Tour
6 stops
1
Istanbul
We will pick you up from your hotel in Istanbul at 15.00. You will then be greeted at Cappadocia airport with your name written on a piece of paper for your Cappadocia transfer. We will place you at your hotel in Cappadocia and you will go on the tour after your breakfast on the first day.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
2
Devrent Valley
Red tour: Start the day visiting Devrent Valley, also known as “Imagination Valley”, this is the most surreal-looking landscape.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
3
Paşabağları Müze ve Örenyeri
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.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
4
Avanos Oren Yeri
Proceed to Avanos the pottery centre of Cappadocia, this village is set on the banks of the Red River.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
5
Goreme Open-Air Museum
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.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
6
Fairy Chimneys
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, Transfer to your hotel and overnight stay in Cave Suite Hotel.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
Day 2
Blue Tour and See You
5 stops
7
Goreme Panorama
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.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
8
Church Of St. John The Baptist (Vaftizci Yahya Kilisesi)
Conclude your hike at the Cavusin Cave Village. Marvel at the rock castle and troglodyte dwellings where people lived until the 20th century.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
9
Kaymakli Underground City
Marvel at the rock castle and troglodyte dwellings where people lived until the 20th century. Enjoy lunch in a local restaurant. 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.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
10
Pigeon Valley
Visit the Pigeon Valley. See spectacular view of dove cotes (pigeon or dove houses), old abandoned cave homes and old Greek houses of Uchisar and Ortshisar Castle, the biggest mass of fairy chimneys in Cappadocia. 18.00 pm. At end of the tour you will be transferred to Cappadocia airport for your return flight to Istanbul. Upon your arrival in Istanbul, you will be met at the airport with your name written paper and transferred from the airport to your hotel in Istanbul. End of our service.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
11
Cappadocia Airport Transfers
At the end of the tour transfer to airport for your flight back to Istanbul. Upon your arrival to İstanbul, we will meet you and transfer to your hotel. End of our service.
2 hours • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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