Our little tea break will be at  Sultanhanı   Caravanserai  an historic inn used by merchants on the famous  place silk Road.

Devrent Valley

Depart from your Hotel for Red Valley, meeting with the lunar landscape of Cappadocia:

 formations beyond belief in Devrent valley have various types of fairy chimneys 

Devrent Valley, also known as "Imagination Valley", is the most surreal-looking landscape. This is one part of Cappadocia that really makes me feel I am on a different planet. Thousands of years of wind, rain and extreme temperature changes have worn the beautifully colored rocks into strange and wonderful animal and human shapes that make you think a modern sculptor has been living in the valley. You are wrong! You have just been introduced to the work of nature’s greatest artist, Erosion

 Pashabagi

 Pashabagi means "The Pasha’s Vineyard", a name it received after the Byzantine Greek population left the region. In Seljuk and Ottoman times, it was called "Papaz'in Bagi" or "The Monk’s Vineyard" because Christian hermits chose to locate hermit cells and churches in these three-headed pinnacles symbolic of the Holy Trinity. Perhaps such symbolism helped these monks develop a greater understanding of God. This peaceful, attractive valley is famous for its three-headed fairy chimneys, and it’s possible to see all the stages in the formation of fairy chimneys at this spot. The vineyards surrounding these natural wonders are still cultivated by locals (you can taste the grapes from September on), and trees such as apricot, apple, pear, quince, cherry, mulberry and walnut are plentiful.

Cavusin Castle

The village of Cavusin (pronounced 'cha-voo-sheen') is the location of a spectacular rock castle that once housed everyone in the village. If you climb up you can see the ruins of Saint John the Baptists, a very large Byzantine church. Walk around the castle and visit some of the homes that were lived in until recently, and see the local fairy chimneys.

Avanos (pottery, ceramics, tiles)

 The red, iron-ore bearing clay deposited by the longest river in Turkey, The Kizilirmak, or "Red River", known to classical scholars as The Halys, has been used to make pottery in Avanos Avanos for thousands of years. During the second millennium BCE, Avanos was inhabited by Assyrian traders, and it was later taken over by the Hittites, who called the river the "Marassantiya". Some of the techniques and designs used by potters today date back to this period. At one time every house had a potters wheel, and no family would give their daughter in marriage if the groom could not make pots! Today, the best of the ceramics and tiles on sale in Istanbul and other major cities are made here. You can watch potters spinning their traditional kick-wheels with their feet, and even try throwing a pot yourself

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. Saint Basil, one of the three Cappadocian Fathers of the Church and Bishop of Caesarea (Kayseri) who first formulated the rules for monastic life later adapted in the west by Saint Benedict, if not familiar with the place himself, directly influenced the lifestyle of the monastic orders in these valleys. Here you can see the best preserved in-situ Byzantine cave wall paintings and frescos from the Iconoclastic period through to the end of Seljuk rule. Icons with scenes from the Old Testament and the New Testament above portraits of Church Fathers and saints depict the structure of the         Byzantine universe The best examples, the Dark Church and the Buckle Church, should not be missed.

Uchisar Castle Rockscape

This tall rock, the highest point of the Goreme region, is a 25-floor beehive of cave rooms forming an underground-type city reaching into the sky. It was used as a citadel during Roman, Byzantine and Seljuk times, but more recently in the Ottoman period the upper rooms were converted into dovecotes, the guano being essential for the fertilization of the region’s phosphorus-free land. The other old houses built around this fortress were used as homes until 20 years ago when modern style houses with plumbing were built in the village. The view of the Cappadocian countryside from the top is just brilliant  

Pigeon Valley

The viewpoint over this awesome valley, named for the number of dovecotes carved out of the rocks, affords a spectacular view of old abandoned cave homes and old Greek houses of Uchisar. Villagers still keep pigeons for their guano, the best fertilizer for the local tufaceous soil. Pigeon guano is different from other natural fertilizers because it does not encourage

Then, we will visit a carpet manufacturing company , a private handicraft centre supported by the  government to keep the carpet manufacturing tradition alive in the Cappodocia area. Then we return to our hotel  

  Day        3- Cappadocia to Alanya.   

3 Days morning after Breakfast, you will be able to visit   an onyx factory, where the rock is formed into many    beautiful useful and decorative objects,

 Special 3-day 2 Nights as Half Board to Cappadocia.         

Tour does not include:

 *-First day Breakfast and all lunch

 *-Personal expenses,

 * -Traditional Turkish Folklore Evening,

 * -Hot air ballooning,

* -Tip to Guid and driver

TURKISH NlGHT SHOW

Turkish Night Show is organized not only to let you experience Turkish culture and traditions but also to have a real entertainment and show after a relaxing Cappadocia day. We pick you up from your hotel at 20:00 in winter and 20:30 in summer and drive you to one of the cave restaurants of Cappadocia where the show will be performed. 
 
The dancers, including a bride and a groom, come on the dance floor and perform the traditional way which a girl gets married in Turkey. The bride beautifully dressed in red, is moving in the centre and the groom comes up and try to impress her by making different stunts on the dance floor.
After enjoying other traditional dances such as: fire dance, Caucasian dance with knives and drum show, the night ends around 23:30 and we drive you back to your hotel for a deep sleep.

Ballooning in Cappadocia