Goreme Trip Overview
In this 2 days tour you will visit all of the must see places in Cappadocia. Your guide will give you the information at each site. You will have enough time to take photos and walk around. There will be a 3 km hiking in Ihlara Canyon, where you can see the cave churches during the hike.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days
Starts: Goreme, Turkey
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey
In this 2 days tour you will visit all of the must see places in Cappadocia. Your guide will give you the information at each site. You will have enough time to take photos and walk around. There will be a 3 km hiking in Ihlara Canyon, where you can see the cave churches during the hike.
Itinerary
Day 1: Northern Cappadocia; Goreme, Uchisar, Avanos
Stop At: Goreme Open-Air Museum, Merkez, Muze Cd., Goreme 50180 Turkey
Goreme Open-Air Museum resembles a vast monastic complex composed of scores of refectory monasteries placed side-by-side, each with its own fantastic church. It is obviously the first sight to be visited by any traveler in Cappadocia, standing as it does in the very center of the region with easy access from all directions. It is only 15 minutes walk (1.5km, 1 mile) from Goreme village center. It contains the finest of the rock-cut churches, with beautiful frescoes (wall paintings) whose colors still retain all their original freshness. It also presents unique examples of rock hewn architecture and fresco technique. The Goreme Open Air Museum has been a member of UNESCO World Heritage List since 1984, and was one of the first two UNESCO sites in Turkey.
Your guide will explain the meanings of frescoes covering the walls of thousand-year-old cave churches as you explore this spectacular UNESCO World Heritage site.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Pasabag, Urgup Turkey
Pasabag valley contains some of the most striking fairy chimneys in Cappadocia with twin and even triple rock caps. This style is unique even for Cappadocia and these fairy chimneys are named mushroom-shaped fairy chimneys.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Cavusin, Cavusin, Cappadocia
One of the oldest villages of Cappadocia, where the first Christians have settled. The villagers lived inside the cave houses until 1955. You can visit the ruins of old Cavusin village.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Goreme Panorama, Uchisar Yolu uzeri 1.km, Goreme 50180 Turkey
The best panoramic view of Cappadocia. You can see Mt. Erciyes which is one of the creators of Cappadocia rocks, from this point.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Uchisar, Uchisar, Cappadocia
Uchisar is situated at the highest point in Cappadocia, on the Nevsehir-Goreme road, just 5 km from Goreme. The top of the Uchisar Castle, provides a magnificent panorama of the surrounding area with Mount Erciyes in the distance.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Pigeon Valley, Uchisar KasabasI Nevşehir Kapadokya, Goreme 50240 Turkey
In this valley, you can see the different formations of pigeon houses. One of the best points to take photos in Cappadocia.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Devrent Valley, Devrent Mevkii No:1 Urgup Yolu, 50500 Turkey
Devrent Valley (also spelled as Dervent Valley) reveals many different rock formations and is only a 10 minute drive from Goreme. The small fairy chimneys in the valley form a lunar landscape, or moonscape, by their strange look.
Duration: 30 minutes
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: Southern Cappadocia; Kaymakli Underground City and Ihlara Valley
Stop At: Kaymakli Underground City, Derinkuyu Turkey
Kaymakli underground city is built under the hill known as the Citadel of Kaymakli and was opened to visitors in 1964. The people of Kaymakli (Enegup in Greek) village have constructed their houses around nearly one hundred tunnels of the underground city. The inhabitants of the region still use the most convenient places in the tunnels as cellars, storage areas and stables, which they access through their courtyards. The Kaymakli Underground City has low, narrow and sloping passages. While the underground city consists of 8 floors below ground, only 4 of them are open to the public today, in which the spaces are organized around ventilation shafts.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Narligol Krater Golu, Nigde 51100 Turkey
Volcanic crater lake with an amazing view.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Ihlara Valley, Guzelyurt 68500 Turkey
Ihlara Valley , near Mount Hasan and Mount Melendiz (two of the three volcanoes of Cappadocia) is a canyon with a depth of approximately 100m and was formed by the Melendiz River thousands of years ago. It begins at Ihlara village and ends with Selime Monastery at Selime village after making 26 bends along 14 kilometers.
There many cave churches in Ihlara Valley. Most of them display scenes dissimilar to the scenes depicted in other Cappadocian churches. In fact, they are reminiscent of the early churches of Syria and the Coptic churches of Egypt. The texts in Ihlara churches are unusually long.
Enjoy the 4 km hiking,visit the beautiful cave churches.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Selime Monastery, Guzelyurt Turkey
The biggest cave monastery in Cappadocia region.
Duration: 45 minutes
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
