Cappadocia Full-Day Tour from Istanbul: Goreme Open-Air Museum, Pigeon Valley

Goreme

8 ساعات

4.15 am Pickup from your Istanbul hotel and transfer to Istanbul airport. You will receive your Flight Tickets after reservation.
You will be met at the Cappadocia airport with your name written on a paper.
After your transfer to Cappadocia;
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 the pottery centre of Cappadocia, this village is set on the banks of the Red River.
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. 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.